Program Goals and Objectives

The overall objectives of the program are:

• advanced training in general dentistry practice at the postdoctoral level.
• clinical experience in comprehensive oral health care to a wide range of patients: the dentally complex and those with medically, physically and mentally compromising conditions including age and socioeconomic status.
• extensive clinical and didactic opportunities for interdisciplinary interaction between the resident and other health care providers.
• didactic information and clinical guidance in communication, behavioral management and practice management skills and the opportunity to apply them to the practice of dentistry.
• an appropriate environment for critical review and presentation of literature and the pursuit of individual research interest and career goals.

Curriculum

The program’s curriculum is heavily centered on clinical protocols and experiences and is supplemented with relevant didactic seminars or seminar series. Frequently seminars are integrated with other dental specialties and especially with The University of Texas Dental Branch GPR Residency.

Topics include but are not limited to:

Anesthesia, Pain Control, and Pharmacology
Asepsis, Infection and Hazard Control
Clinical Dentistry
	Endodontics
	Implant Dentistry
	Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery/Pathology
	Periodontics
	Preventive Dentistry
	Restorative Dentistry
Dental Photography
Medically Compromised Patients
Oral Diagnosis and Treatment Planning
Practice Management
	Clinic Design
	Associateships
TMJ/Myofacial Disorders