Dentistry
This one-year program, accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA), is based at Morristown Medical Center. The state-of-the-art facility includes seven operatories, a laboratory, sterilization area, panorex and darkroom.
- Established in 1974
- Four resident positions
- Private practice environment
- Volunteer attending staff of 70, with half representing all dental specialties
- 8,000 patient visits a year with 23,000 procedures performed
- Dental center hours are 8:30am to 4:30pm, Monday through Friday
Offerings
- Treat 40 to 50 patients a week, including children, seniors, the medically compromised and developmentally disabled
- Develop complex diagnostic treatment planning and clinical skills
- Journal Club monthly review of research articles
- Focus on comprehensive care, continuity of care and cosmetic dentistry
- Full-time hygienist
- Provide restorative and oral surgical care in the OR and handle trauma in the clinic and emergency room
- Participate in two-week rotations to medicine and anesthesiology and a week in the OR learning venipuncture
- Monthly schedule to practice dentistry in the OR
- Resident is responsible to cover on-call every fourth week
- Practice four-handed dentistry, with one assistant per resident
- Participate in our Orofacial Pain Center
- Learn rotary endodontics and System B with a surgical microscope available
- Cerec is available in the clinic and two days of training are provided by the company
- Digital radiography system
- Dentrix software, digital dental record
