AS 1

• SDM EN 521: Endodontics
  This lecture course provides the dental student with a clear understanding of the biological foundations of pulpal and periapical disease. The causes and progression of these problems are discussed. Diagnostic, therapeutic, preventative, and follow-up modalities are introduced.
• SDM EN 522: Preclinical Endodontics
  This simulated clinic course provides experience and skill development in the clinical therapeutic techniques being presented in the lecture course. Both extracted and artificial teeth mounted in simulated mannequin patients are utilized to prepare students for direct patient endodontic care.
• SDM GD 520: CAD/CAM Fundamentals and Practice
  This course will review current techniques for incorporating CAD/CAM Technology into your everyday practice based on current literature. This course will be a blend of lecture series and hands on exercises. This format will ensure that the students are getting complete exposure and comprehensive learning to develop their skills, especially during the hands-on sections of this course.
• SDM GD 540: Preclinical Implantology
  This course is designed to introduce to DMD II and DMD AS I students a broad overview of dental implants. The course will consist of a combination of didactic classroom learning and simulated lab exercises, which will teach students to read CBCT scans, treatment plan and place a virtual implant into the scan with merged data from a file of a digital impression of the dentition, and then to fabricate an accurate surgical guide for its use in guided surgery; place and restore dental implant on a model; as well as restore overdentures supported by dental implants. The course will prepare the students to treat patients in a clinical setting using dental implants as a treatment option.
• SDM OD 522: Oral Diagnosis/Radiology II
  This course presents advanced imaging techniques including extraoral imaging, panoramic imaging, CBCT and principles of digital imaging. Lectures and case presentations will prepare the students to analyze radiographs and be proficient in interpretation of caries, periodontal disease and periapical pathology. The students will also gain knowledge of the radiographic features of various jaw diseases including cysts, tumors, fibro-osseous lesions, systemic disease, infections and developmental diseases affecting the oral tissues.
• SDM OD 531: Oral Medicine
  Lectures and case presentations in this course illustrate the diagnosis and treatment of oral mucosal lesions, oral manifestations of systemic diseases and their effects on comprehensive oral health care. The goal of the course is to develop students' competency in the use of critical thinking and problem solving related to the comprehensive care of patients with oral diseases.
• SDM OS 520: General Medicine and Dental Correlations
  This course is intended to be a transition course -- taking general biology concepts previously learned and applying them to commonly encountered human diseases. Upon completion of this course, a dental student should be able to identify familiar and recurring clinical conditions related to each human system, recognize the mechanism of that disease, and understand the implications of the disease and its treatment on general dental care.
• SDM OS 521: Pain Control I
  This course presents the pharmacological aspects and indications for the use of local anesthetics as well as patient evaluation, relevant head and neck anatomy, neurophysiology and detailed discussion of injections techniques. It will introduce post-operative pain management, prescription and medical consultation writing and review local and systemic complications associated with local anesthesia administration. The course will provide an introduction into the impact of prescribing practices and review new technology, techniques and medications regarding local anesthetics. Each student will participate in a laboratory/clinical exercise, which will be offered in the spring semester, prior to entering the clinic.
• SDM OS 532: Pain Control II
  The course builds on the concepts presented in OS 521, and is designed to provide the dental student with a more in-depth post-operative pain management and an introduction to anxiety control of the dental patient. This will include consideration of the impact of prescribing practices and substance use disorder. Emphasis is placed on the psychology of pain, behavior techniques, oral and intravenous sedation, general anesthesia, along with enhanced emphasis on the properties, monitoring, safety and administration of nitrous oxide. Patient evaluation and the prevention and treatment of medical emergencies and management of anesthetic complications will be discussed. Prescription and medical consult writing exercises are given throughout the course.
• SDM PA 530: Oral Pathology
  This course is focused upon the pathogenesis and differential diagnosis of common diseases affecting the oral and para-oral structures. Students should learn a systematic approach to evaluation and diagnosis of oral diseases.
• SDM PE 520: Periodontology I
  This course presents the clinical and microscopic characteristics of the periodontium in healthy and diseased states. Diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes assessment are discussed.
• SDM PE 521: Preclinical Periodontology
  This clinical course includes experience in performing diagnostic and non surgical periodontal procedures with student partners.
• SDM PH 512: Professional Ethics Development
  Professional Ethics Development is designed to explore the personal and professional values of the dental student and the dental health professional. The course provides a historical and conceptual framework of dentistry, and presents the profession's code of ethics as well as explores some current ethical and legal issues affecting professional practice. The purpose of the course is to assist students in the transition from undergraduate school to professional school and ultimately into knowledgeable, skilled, and caring professionals. Students discuss the school's code of conduct and identify common values of the class, participate in case-based discussions and writing assignments to raise awareness about the personal and professional values involved in dental school and dental practice.
• SDM PH 521: Behavioral Science
  This course identifies the behavioral framework for the effective delivery of health care. Discussions include behavioral modification models with respect to doctor and patient communication as well as behavioral aspects of managing patient pain, fear, phobia and anxiety. The course provides students with knowledge to also assist them in their personal and professional behavioral management as they transition from student to health care provider by utilizing examples of healthcare professional conduct from the media, as well as drivers of health behavior. Other topics discussed are the behavioral approaches for rendering care to special needs populations such as individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and geriatrics.
• SDM PH 541: Gerontology & Geriatric Dentistry
  This course integrates biomedical, clinical, and behavioral science principles into the evaluation and treatment planning of older adults and adults with special needs. PH 541 builds on didactic and clinical information acquired in their prior dental school curriculum. The students' didactic knowledge and understanding of special populations is assessed through a web-based examination platform. Evaluation of the students' clinical competence is based on attendance, participation, and an online assessment of an older adult patient or adult patient with special needs. This course focuses on patient-centered ways to promote, improve, maintain, and modify oral health care. This course also provides opportunities for critical thinking and foundational knowledge regarding inter-professional care and referrals, the social and behavioral implications of aging, polypharmacy, and management of oral health and quality of life for medically compromised older adults and adults living with special needs.
• SDM RS 519: Biomaterials
  An in-depth study of the physical, chemical, mechanical, and biological properties of materials related to the practice of dentistry. This includes clinical indications, handling, and selection of materials based on these properties.
• SDM RS 521: Preclinical Operative Dentistry
  This hands-on simulated clinic course provides demonstrations, experience and skill development with the procedures related to direct and indirect intracoronal tooth restorations. This course also includes a comprehensive simulated clinic introduction to the techniques of pediatric dentistry and the technical aspects of restorative dentistry.
• SDM RS 522: Removable Prosthodontics 1
  This comprehensive lecture course addresses complete and partial denture construction. The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to the fundamentals of denture fabrications and the treatment modalities unique to the edentulous and partially edentulous patient, emphasizing those treatments that are totally removable in nature. The didactic course content includes the following: Diagnosis and Treatment Planning for: Complete Dentures (including Immediate, Interim, and Treatment dentures. Relines, Rebase and Repairs). Partial Dentures (including Provisional and Transitional). Design of these prostheses including an in-depth discussion of denture occlusion. Fabrication, insertion, adjustment, and correction of these prostheses to include both analog and digitally fabricated techniques.
• SDM RS 523: Preclin Removable Prosthodontics
  This simulated clinic course provides experience and skill development with the procedures related to complete and partial denture construction. The course content includes the following: Fabrication of complete upper and lower dentures with both lingualized and anatomical occlusal schemes from final impressions to processing and occlusal equilibration. Digitally fabricated techniques will include the reference denture technique and the biofunctional try-in. In-depth sessions of virtual tooth set-ups and tooth movement will complement discussions on occlusion Fabrication of Partial Upper and Partial Lower dentures from preliminary survey to abutment preparation. Laboratory communication will be stressed in all phases of complete and partial dentures. Survey & design of 14 clinical cases in small student workshops facilitated by a clinical instructor.
• SDM RS 524: Fixed Prosthodontics 1
  This course provides a comprehensive introduction to extracoronal full-coverage tooth restoration systems. The conceptual basis for both single-tooth crowns and multiple-tooth bridgework is presented.