Comprehensive Care Patient Clinic

Catalog description

These courses (CCC 1004 and CCC 1005) take place at off-site locations in DeFuniak Springs, Florida and Erie, Pennsylvania. The courses provide each fourth-year student with the continuation in basic clinical training experience in the following disciplines of dentistry: Oral Diagnosis, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Endodontics, Periodontics, Operative Dentistry, Fixed Prosthodontics, Removable Prosthodontics, Pediatrics, Orthodontics, Geriatrics, Hospital Dentistry, and Implant Dentistry. Each fourth-year student is assigned to a preceptor group. These preceptors provide their students with continued training in diagnosis, treatment planning, sequencing, and the clinical care of their assigned patients. Consultations in the various specialties of dentistry occur as required. The preceptors direct and coordinate the total dental health care of the patients of each of their students. Individual student meetings are scheduled to discuss clinical performance.