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Thank you for your interest in continuing your education with a General Practice Residency in Dentistry at Lehigh Valley Health Network. More >>
The General Practice Dentistry Program at Lehigh Valley Health Network offers two distinct one-year approved residency programs designed to reinforce and expand on principles learned in a four-year pre-doctoral dental program, while the residents deliver advanced comprehensive dental care in the hospital environment.
The programs will enable the resident to:
- Develop confidence in clinical and patient management skills.
- Become confident and competent in the care of medically compromised patients.
- Become competent in admitting patients to the hospital and providing care in the operating room setting. Residents will be encouraged to maintain hospital privileges after completion to their residency.
- Perform critical and scientific reviews of the dental and medical literature through study clubs and the use of the hospital library computer system.
- Form an attitude of discipline for continuing education through hospitals, universities, dental societies and literature.
- Deliver comprehensive dental care and gain experience in oral surgery, operative dentistry, preventive dentistry, fixed and removable prosthetics, periodontics, endodontics, pediatric dentistry, orthodontics, basic implant dentistry and pain and anxiety control.
- Be familiar with the business skill needed to operate and manage a private dental practice.
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Resident Training Goals and Objectives Statements
The program’s goals and objectives for resident training and the program’s clinical and didactic training More >>
Overall Goals and Objectives
Goals and objectives of the General Practice Dentistry program More >>
Course of Study at Lehigh Valley Hospital-17th Street
Brief description of the course of study More >>
Course of Study at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg
Highlights of our program More >>
Curriculum at Lehigh Valley Hospital-17th Street
This is a one-year ADA accredited residency program designed to provide the dental graduate with an understanding of systemic disease, its relationship to oral disease and the application of this knowledge to comprehensive treatment of dental patients. More >>
Curriculum at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg
The Department of Dentistry offers an American Dental Association accredited General Practice Residency in General Dentistry which has completed more than fifteen years of service to the public and to the education of recent dental graduates. More >>
Rotations at Lehigh Valley Hospital-17th Street
Brief description of the rotations More >>
Rotations at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg
Brief description of rotations More >>
