Facilities
In addition to classroom learning, you’ll have valuable opportunities to work closely with patients and practice your skills in the lab. Learn all about our state-of-the-art facilities below.
Learn about our preclinic curriculum, meet the faculty, and see how our state-of-the-art facilities and world-class instructors ensure our students receive an excellent academic experience.
Cariology and Direct Restoration
- Together these laboratory courses introduce students to the non-surgical and surgical treatment of dental caries including contemporary concepts in the practice of direct restorative dentistry, resin composite and glass ionomer restorations.
Indirect Restoration
- Course covers clinical and laboratory procedures involved in fabrication of restorations including inlays, onlays, full coverage crowns, partial fixed dental prosthesis and custom made posts.
Endodontics
- This endodontic laboratory technique course provides the initial phase of laboratory and clinical education program in endodontics.
- Topics include: use of instruments and materials in non-surgical treatment, pulpal anatomy and interpretation of radiographs, non-surgical endodontic treatment of uncomplicated non-molar and molar teeth.
Preclinical Lab and Dental Anatomy
- Course is designed to develop technical and discriminatory skills with regard to dental anatomy.
- Anatomical and functional differences of teeth and how they relate are presented.
- Students will develop skills to replicate the morphological characteristics of the dentition.
Preclinical Basic Skills
- The course emphasizes dental anatomy and preclinical basic skills using virtual images of human teeth allowing students to understand the internal anatomy, and introduces skills of virtual wax-up of anterior and posterior teeth.
Introduction to Digital Dentistry
- The course introduces proper positioning of patient and operator, maintenance and use of dental hand and rotary instruments to develop manual dexterity skills for tooth preparation and other applications.
- Other topics: intraoral scanning (Planmeca), Compare software to evaluate tooth preparation.
Complete Removable Dental Prosthesis
- The course introduces the clinical and laboratory procedures involved in design and fabrication of the complete denture for edentulous patients.
Partial Removable Dental Prosthesis
- The course introduces the clinical and laboratory procedures involved in design and fabrication of a partial removable dental prostheses (partial denture) including: survey of diagnostic casts, partial denture framework design, tooth modifications, final impressioning on a typodont, pouring of master casts, and communication of framework design to a laboratory technician.
Implant Dentistry
- The implant dentistry course provides the basic knowledge for treating patients in need of dental implants.
- The course introduces the basic restorative and surgical skills needed in implant dentistry.
Phone: 716-829-6925
Fax: 716-829-2731
Email: sdmadmit@buffalo.edu
Hours:
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., M-F
DDS Admissions
School of Dental Medicine
315 Squire Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14214