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Overview
I Stipends
& Tuition
I Endodontics
I General
Practice Residency
Orthodontics
The Program in Orthodontics
is a twenty-four
month course of study
beginning in July
of each year. The
program is designed
to offer a broad
foundation in the
basic sciences and
to provide a background
of detailed knowledge
essential to the
understanding of
orthodontics. The
program meets the
educational requirements
of the American Board
of Orthodontics;
it was also accredited
in 2001 with a status
of "A."
Primary emphasis
is on clinical training,
which is correlated
with and supplemented
by lecture, seminar,
demonstration, and
conference instruction.
Mastery of the edgewise
appliance is stressed.
Treatment with functional
appliances is also
emphasized as an
augmentation to fixed
appliance therapy.
In addition to the
treatment of routine
orthodontic problems,
each student treats
several patients
with severe malocclusions,
requiring a combined
orthodontic-surgical
approach to therapy.
Guest lecturers introduce
other appliance techniques
currently used throughout
the world. The opportunity
exists for students
to obtain a Master
of Science degree
through one of the
basic science departments
of the Health Sciences
Center. Such a program
requires the approval
of the head of the
Department of Orthodontics
and the head of the
basic science department
in which the degree
is desired. Approximately
twelve additional
months of full-time
attendance is necessary
to complete the requirements
for the Master of
Science degree. Some
of the courses offered
over the two-year
period are orthodontic
theory and diagnosis,
orthodontic technique,
biomechanics, surgical
orthodontics, craniofacial
morphogenesis, anatomy,
and statistics. Each
student must also
complete a research
project. All applicants
must take the Graduate
Record Examination;
foreign students
must take the TOEFL.
Completed applications
must be received
by September 1 of the
year preceding matriculation.
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