New York University College of Dentistry

The Advanced Education Program in Prosthodontics is committed to educating and mentoring dentists who will become future leaders in the specialty of Prosthodontics. The program aims to provide innovative and continuously evolving curriculum content to develop students’ clinical decision-making and technical skills to treat highly complex prosthodontic treatment needs.

Our objective is to train expert clinicians with a sense of ethical responsibility and professionalism. The program strives to achieve these goals through the implementation of new advanced clinical practices and technologies in the field.

The Advanced Education Program in Prosthodontics is a three-year program that fulfills all educational requirements of the Council on Dental Education of the American Dental Association and the American Board of Prosthodontics.

PROGRAM STRENGTHS

The program provides an unparalleled and wide range of clinical experiences unique to our institution based on a diverse patient population, a robust didactic program, and expert clinical faculty. The educational foundation is enhanced with a variety of research.

• The program’s clinical experiences are derived from a large active patient volume with over 10,000 patient visits (to the program). Additionally, NYU Dentistry boasts over 300,000 patient visits to the college annually, providing constant referrals to the postgraduate programs. As a result, our program offers unmatched interdisciplinary care opportunities.
• A multifaceted and diverse faculty that includes full- and part-time practitioners with world-renowned reputations. The program is proud to have the highest number of board-certified prosthodontists. Many faculty members have dual or triple specialties ranging from maxillofacial prosthetics to implant surgery.
• Implant surgical education in the program has the most extended history among U.S. dental schools. The surgical curriculum fulfills all aspects of the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) requirements for surgical instructions in delivering simple and complex implant restorations/prostheses. The surgical training is provided by prosthodontists with formal surgical training, oral maxillofacial surgeons, and/or periodontists.
• All students learn about various CAD/CAM programs over the three-year didactic and hands-on modules by faculty. Multiple intra-oral scanners are available for student use, along with SprintRay 3-D printers.
• Master dental technician faculty works side-by-side with the postgraduate students. Students learn about technical aspects of prosthodontics directly from master technicians in clinic and laboratory settings.
• The prosthodontic program at New York University College of Dentistry is integrated with the Oral Health Center for People with Disabilities. The Oral Health Center is located in the same building as the program, and our students rotate through the center and work with faculty in a one-to-one setting, providing in-depth clinical education in managing patients with special needs.
• We hold a strong relationship with all other dental specialties within the institution. Our postgraduate students have unique opportunities to develop in-depth knowledge and delivery of coordinated prosthodontic care, including complex congenital dental syndromes, post-cancer treatments, post-trauma prosthodontics care, and interceptive prosthodontics with orthodontics. All specialty postgraduate students regularly attend multidisciplinary seminars.

DIDACTIC PROGRAM

Approximately twenty-five percent of the overall program time is dedicated to didactic components. Emphasis is placed on gaining critical and analytical decision-making skills utilizing existing and new evidence in dentistry. The program’s curriculum contents and delivery of educational content are evaluated continuously to implement new and relevant information in the most accessible manner for students.

The curriculum contents are divided into core courses: Advanced Education in Core Sciences, Applied Sciences, Clinical Applications in Wound Healing, Current Concepts in Implant Dentistry and Bone Regeneration, Multidisciplinary Seminars, and Growth & Development.

Specialty-specific course modules in principles of prosthodontics, implant dentistry, and digital dentistry are designed to provide in-depth discussion of traditional practices as well as the most innovative clinical practices.

CLINICAL PROGRAM

Clinical training comprises sixty percent of program time. The patient population in the Prosthodontics clinic is extensive and diverse. Students function as members of a multi-specialty, interdisciplinary team. They become proficient in diagnosing, treating, and maintaining various prosthodontic needs for patients. Committed to excellence, prosthesis fabrication is performed in high-quality laboratories. The program boasts thirty-five trained, full- and part-time prosthodontists as clinical faculty members, plus numerous prominent scholars as visiting lecturers. Approximately thirty percent of these faculty members are board-certified prosthodontists.

An exceptional student-to-faculty ratio averaging 5:1 enhances the residents' clinical experiences.

RESEARCH PROGRAM

All students are required to complete an approved research project. The project requires the students to demonstrate the ability to understand the scientific process, including data collection, statistical analysis, and presentation in a scientific forum. Additionally, students are required to attend several scientific and specialty-related meetings. Each student is required to present two poster presentations at professional conferences. Research within the program is very active, and students frequently receive national and regional grants/awards.

TEACHING PROGRAM

Students teach predoctoral dental students as a component of their graduate education. All students participate in a course in pedagogy and utilize up to ten percent of their total program time in teaching.

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