DMD-728: Comprehensive Patient Care with Case Studies I

This course is continuous throughout the D-3 and D-4 years (I – VI). Student dentists learn comprehensive patient-centered oral health care and develop clinical competency required to enter the general practice of dentistry. Student dentists will provide patient care under the supervision, guidance, and support of faculty and will enhance their diagnostic, technical, and interpersonal skills. This courses emphasize the importance of these skills in effective, efficient, and compassionate patient care and guide the students towards independent practice by evaluating competence in the delivery of specific services, providing high-quality, comprehensive care to all patients, maintaining professionalism in the delivery of care, accurately self-evaluating one's clinical performance, and practicing efficiently and profitably. Case studies include topics in evidence-based, comprehensive general dentistry, advanced radiological interpretation and diagnosis, implantology, laser dentistry, CAD/CAM dentistry, occlusion, obstructive sleep apnea, temporomandibular dysfunction, occlusion, surgical periodontics, pharmacology, and practice management.