Comprehensive care is defined as the diagnosis, prevention and treatment needed to restore optimal oral health, function and appearance. The School’s pre-doctoral students manage their patients comprehensively. This includes referral of their patients to the School’s advanced education programs when indicated, while always maintaining oversight of the patient’s overall care.

The course will be based on team-based learning. The purpose of the course is to facilitate student learning through group activities focusing on evidence based literature, observing D4 case presentations and participating in class discussion. D3 students are divided into presentation groups. Each group will present an evidence-based published article one time during the semester.

Third-year students with faculty supervision, will provide bitewing, periapical, occlusal, panoramic and full-mouth series of radiographs as per electronically written referral for new, reassigned, and emergency UB SDM predoc patients. The proper use of equipment, shielding, exposure settings, infection control, patient management, quality assurance, image processing, storage, and record documentation will be reinforced.

Students will learn to define the diseases of the oral mucosa discussed in class through learning the etiology, clinical features, histopathology, and differential diagnosis. Then students will be able to use the information learned in this course to properly manage oral mucosal diseases.

This course tests the ability of 3rd year dental students to present a patient to a faculty member and demonstrate an appropriate comprehensive head and neck exam. Medical history, a review of the patients’ medical problems, vital signs analysis, and head/ neck physical examination are performed while being reviewed by faculty.

OSU831 will focus on basic principles and practices in dentoalveolar surgery with emphasis on pre-surgical evaluation, basic and surgical extractions, management of impacted teeth, biopsy principles and complications arising from dentoalveolar surgery.

The students will function in the various clinical environments with responsibilities including performance of patient assessment and dentoalveolar surgery, assisting/observation of complex dentoalveolar surgery and observation of conscious sedation administration.

This required course sponsored by Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Dept. follows coursework and preclinical courses in local anesthesia and precedes anesthesia and pain control (including modalities of sedation and anesthesia). Didactic instruction will consist of lectures, selected demonstrations and practical exercises and suggested readings.

Course material to be covered will include: practicums in physical examination, patient presentation, relevant documentation, pharmacology immediately relevant to risk factors for dental treatment, local anesthesia, oral surgical armamentarium relevant to general dentists, suturing techniques and armamentarium, infection control, mock code, and practical radiographic interpretation.

This course is uniquely designed to incorporate a modular curriculum. A stepwise approach to learning will be utilized and includes didactic instruction through case-based lectures (CBL), followed by clinical simulation exercises (CSE) and culminating in direct patient care (DPC).

Students will be introduced to the distinctive aspects of pediatric care in the dental environment. The physical, cognitive, emotional and social aspects of the pediatric population coupled with the epidemiology of oral disease at that age will be addressed. Students will learn the fundamentals of the developing dentition, the essential techniques of pediatric dental procedures, as well as gain exposure to varying pathologies and anomalies that may occur in this population.

Pediatric Dentistry Clinic I introduces students to the clinical management of infants, children, adolescents, and patients with special health care needs. Under faculty supervision, students begin providing comprehensive preventive and restorative dental care in a child-centered environment, integrating principles from pediatric didactic coursework into direct patient care.

This course focuses on the diagnosis and non-surgical treatment of different forms of periodontal diseases. This course builds upon, and assumes knowledge of, the didactic and clinical material covered in the first two years of dental school.

The course starts with a review of periodontal examination and diagnosis at approximately the same time that students are performing oral examinations and preparing problem lists for their patients in clinic. The major areas in non-surgical periodontal therapy are covered so that by the end of the semester, students can diagnose periodontal diseases, develop a treatment plan for the treatment of periodontal diseases, and are knowledgeable of non-surgical periodontal therapies.

This clinical course is designed to increase your knowledge and improve your technical expertise in the delivery of periodontal therapy and its role in maintaining oral health. Students will learn how to probe periodontal pockets, assess gingival inflammation, develop periodontal treatment plans, and scale and root plane to remove plaque and calculus.

This course is the second phase of the Endodontic educational program of the Department of Periodontics and Endodontics. PER835 is designed to enhance the student’s understanding of the biologic basis of endodontic disease, rationale for treatment modalities for routine, emergency, and advanced endodontic situations including retreatment and traumatic injuries, and to expose the student to adjunctive endodontic therapy.

PER836 is part of the 4 Endodontic clinical courses (PER 836, 837,838,839). The minimum requirements for PER836 include the completion of the Endodontic Clinic Orientation, performing one Endodontic screening (D0461U) and one Endodontic assist in the Predoctoral Endodontics Clinic (D3990U).

PMY 831 Principles of Pharmacology presents information to help students gain thorough understanding of drugs essential to the practice of dentistry and to achieve a broad knowledge of common medications used by patients which may have oral side effects or that may influence the patient’s dental treatment.

In addition, the course presents survey information of drugs commonly used and affecting bodily systems. Students will be presented and be expected to learn about drugs included in the approximate top one hundred prescribed drugs, with which all health practitioners including dentists should be familiar.

This course will focus on aspects of Implant Restorative Dentistry and will be strictly a Laboratory course. Students will learn how to fabricate a radiographic guide, a surgical guide, how to make an impression from implants. Furthermore will learn how to fabricate a temporary crown over an implant (6) 3-hour laboratory sessions (1) final practical examination

This course will focus on aspects of Implant Dentistry Surgery. Pharmacological information’s related to premedication and post op medications will be provided. Flap design techniques, Osteotomy sites techniques will be presented and explained. Furthermore ridge augmentation and ridge preservation techniques will be explained and presented, together with soft tissue augmentation techniques. Bone augmentation procedures will be presented such as sinus lift augmentation procedures. The dental students will understand all steps needed to handle an implant patient, how to refer and what to ask to the surgeon.

In this course students will be able to explain the options for replacement of missing teeth to patients and develop a treatment plan based on current evidence, patient needs and desires. Students will need to critically evaluate and modify, as needed, definitive restorations during clinical try-in and prior to clinical placement. While also understanding realistic quality standards for fixed prosthodontics treatment.

The course entails those same clinical procedures which are initiated with [a] review and recording of medical and dental history; [b] recognition and recording of individual’s chief concern (complaint); [c] data gathering and recording during a clinical patient examination and radiographic survey; [d] followed by definition of a problem list with associated treatment options; [e] then definition of a patient specific plan of treatment.

This Year 3 Fall semester (D3 Fall) lecture course will expand on caries management and direct restorative dentistry preparations and restorations that were taught during the first two years of the curriculum. Emphasis will be place on caries risk assessment for individualizing patient preventive and treatment planning. Minimally invasive treatment and Evidence-Based care will be stressed.

Operative Dentistry is the art and science of Dentistry which deals with the prevention and diagnosis of caries, its management based on risk assessment, the restoration of individual teeth to proper occlusal function and to a form which is in harmony with surrounding hard and soft tissues.

This 3rd year patient-centered clinical experience in Operative Dentistry puts into practice what was learned in the 2nd year Operative Preclinical course series (RDN809/810) and 3rd year Operative didactic course (RDN835), and serves as the foundation for the comprehensive patient treatment of the 4th year.

This course focuses on the diagnosis, treatment planning, and prosthetic rehabilitation of the edentulous state, while it reinforces and expands on the previously attained basic knowledge of the pre-doctoral student on removable rehabilitation.

The overall goals, objectives and methods of evaluation are consistent with those of third year Comprehensive Care Clinic courses CLD831 and CLD832. The student will be able to examine a partially or completely edentulous patient, gather the proper diagnostic data and formulate a workable treatment outline in proper sequence for that patient. The student will be able to perform the necessary clinical steps in the construction of a maxillary and mandibular complete interim denture and a removable interim partial denture.

Comprehensive care is defined as the diagnosis, prevention and treatment needed to restore optimal oral health, function and appearance. The School’s pre-doctoral students manage their patients comprehensively. This includes referral of their patients to the School’s advanced education programs when indicated, while always maintaining oversight of the patient’s overall care.

The course will be based on team-based learning. The purpose of the course is to facilitate student learning through group activities focusing on evidence based literature, observing D4 case presentations and participating in class discussion. D3 students are divided into presentation groups. Each group will present an evidence-based published article one time during the academic year in either the Fall or Spring semester.

This course serves as a bridge between Introduction to the Profession (CLD800) and Ethics and Law in Practice Management (RDN821) courses first and second years and the Oral Healthcare Management (RDN841) course in the fourth year. The course consists of several topics designed to encourage student reflection on their first full year of clinical practice and to extrapolate those reflections to their future practice settings.

The evaluation of the medically complex & geriatric patient is integrated with management techniques for appropriate treatment planning and treating of those patients in this course.

Third-year students with faculty supervision, will provide bitewing, periapical, occlusal, panoramic and full-mouth series of radiographs as per electronically written referral for new, reassigned, and emergency UB SDM predoc patients. The proper use of equipment, shielding, exposure settings, infection control, patient management, quality assurance, image processing, storage, and record documentation will be reinforced.

This course, therefore, provides basic information necessary to develop an understanding of temporomandibular disorders (TMD) and other orofacial pain conditions. The lectures and assigned reading encompass masticatory muscle disorders such as myalgia, myofascial pain with referral and headache attributed to TMD. Intra-articular conditions such as degenerative joint disease, subluxation and disc displacements. The course also provides information on orofacial pain conditions such as trigeminal neuralgia, temporal arteritis, Eagle’s syndrome and primary headaches.

This clinical course tests the ability of 3rd year dental students to present a patient to a faculty member and demonstrate an appropriate comprehensive head and neck exam. Medical history, a review of the patient’s medical problems, vital signs analysis, oral cancer risk assessment, and head/neck physical examination are performed while being observed by faculty. A grade is assigned, based on the thoroughness of the patient presentation and examination by the student.

This lecture-based course introduces students to a variety of topics pertinent to understanding and treating people who have special needs. Students will be able to recognize the unique dental, medical, and psychosocial concerns of the patient with special needs.

This course introduces students to a variety of topics pertinent to understanding and treating older people. Changing demographic and social trends, the basic science of aging, as well as focus on the tissues/diseases most relevant to the dentist are presented. Specific issues associated with treating the older person.

This course combines lecture with lab to reinforce learning of core introductory principles and appliances of orthodontics, including theory, fabrication and use of several representative removable and fixed orthodontic appliances. This course enables the student to distinguish those cases which can be treated by a general practitioner from those that should be referred to an orthodontist.

This required course in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery follows coursework and pre-clinical courses in local anesthesia and normally occurs concomitantly with Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery clinical rotations. OSU832 will continue with principals originally learned in OSU831, considering patient evaluation in greater depth as well as complex oral and maxillofacial surgery.

The students will function in the various clinical environments with responsibilities including performance of patient assessment and dentoalveolar surgery, assisting/observation of complex dentoalveolar surgery and observation of conscious sedation administration. This course also will expose students to management of dental emergencies, medical emergencies, and the management of medically compromised patients.

This required course in Anesthesia and Pain Control follows coursework and preclinical courses in local anesthesia plus the Oral Surgery Boot Camp (OSU837). Course material to be covered will include modern techniques for the reduction of anxiety and apprehension via pharmacological and non-pharmacological means available in modern dental practice. Methods and techniques for the administration of conscious sedation, deep sedation and general anesthesia will be discussed with emphasis placed on the safe and effective use of modalities applicable to dental practice.

The second major emphasis of this course will be in modern theory and practice of acute and chronic pain control predominately of the pharmacologic variety with non-pharmacologic methods.

Pediatric Dentistry II builds upon foundational knowledge in child oral health and focuses on the comprehensive clinical management of infants, children, adolescents, and patients with special health care needs. Emphasis is placed on evidence-based diagnosis, treatment planning, and delivery of preventive and restorative care within a child-centered framework.

Clinical experiences provide supervised patient care with increasing responsibility, reinforcing ethical decision-making, communication with parents and caregivers, and interprofessional collaboration. Students are expected to integrate risk assessment, preventive strategies, and restorative treatment while demonstrating professionalism and cultural sensitivity.

PER832 focuses on the surgical treatment of periodontal diseases and is designed to prepare D3 students to understand periodontal surgical treatment options. This course builds on and assumes proficiency from the first two and a half years of dental school.

This clinical course is designed to increase your knowledge and improve your technical expertise in the delivery of periodontal therapy and its role in maintaining oral health.

This course is part of the combined third and fourth year integrated clinical program, specifically addressing the endodontic needs of the patients of the School of Dental Medicine. Students will perform an endodontic screening, formulate endodontic diagnosis, and self-assess treatment outcomes.

In this course students will be able to explain the options for replacement of missing teeth to patients and develop a treatment plan based on current evidence, patient needs and desires. Students will need to critically evaluate and modify, as needed, definitive restorations during clinical try-in and prior to clinical placement. While also understanding realistic quality standards for fixed prosthodontics treatment.

The course entails those same clinical procedures which are initiated with [a] review and recording of medical and dental history; [b] recognition and recording of individual’s chief concern (complaint); [c] data gathering and recording during a clinical patient examination and radiographic survey; [d] followed by definition of a problem list with associated treatment options; [e] then definition of a patient specific plan of treatment.

This Year 3 Spring semester (D3 Spring) lecture course follows the caries management and direct restorative dentistry preparations and restorations that were taught during in the D3 Fall course. Emphasis will be placed on caries risk assessment for individualizing patient preventive and treatment planning. Minimally Invasive treatment and Evidence-Based care will be stressed. One third of the course will address Esthetic and Cosmetic Dentistry. Statistics and Evidence-Based Dentistry will be featured.

Operative Dentistry is the art and science of Dentistry which deals with the prevention and diagnosis of caries, its management based on risk assessment, the restoration of individual teeth to proper occlusal function and to a form which is in harmony with surrounding hard and soft tissues.

This 3rd year patient-centered clinical experience in Operative Dentistry puts into practice what was learned in the 2nd year Operative Preclinical course series (RDN809/810) and 3rd year Operative didactic course (RDN835), and serves as the foundation for the comprehensive patient treatment of the 4th year.

RDN838 Removable Prosthodontics IV is a continuation of RDN837 Removable Prosthodontics III.  This course focuses on the diagnosis, treatment planning, design, and prosthetic rehabilitation of the partially edentulous state. The course reinforces the previously attained knowledge on complete denture rehabilitation and introduces more complex patient care consideration and CAD/CAM digital techniques.

The overall goals, objectives and methods of evaluation are consistent with those of third year Comprehensive Care Clinic courses CLD831 and CLD832. The student will be able to examine a partially or completely edentulous patient, gather the proper diagnostic data and formulate a workable treatment outline in proper sequence for that patient.

The student will be able to perform the necessary clinical steps in the construction of a maxillary and mandibular complete interim denture and a removable interim partial denture.

This clinical course series provides basic clinical experience in the replacement of missing teeth with dental implants. Including developing treatment plans, utilizing evidence-based dentistry practices to determine when dental implants are an appropriate treatment option, utilize appropriate restorative protocols, and effectively communicate restoratively driven implant positioning to the implant surgeon.