This basic course covers general pathology, which will prepare the student dentist to concentrate on the specialized area of oral pathology. Emphasis is placed on cell damage, inflammation and repair, neoplasia and hemostasis, as well as the in-depth study of selected systemic diseases that may affect dental patient management.
This is a comprehensive lecture course on oral and paraoral diseases. The course deals with the clinical aspects of oral disease, with emphasis on clinical and/or radiographic appearance, etiology, management and prognosis.
This course teaches the dental student an effective approach to patients with oral lesions. It will stress the following: development of a reasonable differential diagnosis list, procedures to be used in obtaining a definitive diagnosis, management of the patient after a diagnosis has been made, and treatment if indicated. Lecture/seminar, 26 hours and 1 two-hour final exam. Prereq: OPT 830.
Elective courses offered by the Department of Oral Pathology provide opportunities for further study of or experience in various aspects of oral pathology. Topics may include principles of clinical and histologic diagnosis, the management of patients with oral disease, and discussions of specific oral diseases. Hours variable, ranging from a minimum of 16 hours lecture/discussion to a maximum of 10 weeks clinical experience. May be repeated to a maximum of 10 credits.
This course is designed to teach dental health professionals basic photographic principles and an effective technique of intraoral photography. Topics of interest include photographic equipment, film, and lighting and exposure techniques. The effects of alterations in shutter speed, aperture and lens focal length will be stressed. A step-by-step procedure for dental clinical photography will be presented. Note: scheduling of this course will not interfere with regularly scheduled class/clinic time.
Simple random sampling, statistics and their sampling distributions, sampling distributions for normal populations; concepts of loss and risk functions. Bayes and minimax inference procedures; point and interval estimation; hypothesis testing; introduction to nonparametric tests; regression and correlation.
Definition and classification of stochastic processes, renewal theory and applications, Markov chains, continuous time Markov chains, queuing theory, epidemic processes, Gaussian processes.
This is a two credit-hour seminar course that introduces students to the basic concepts and principles of cephalometrics in orthodontic diagnosis and treatment. The course reviews historical literature as well as contemporary articles.
Basic and applied physiology for graduate students in dentistry. Class, two and one-half hours.
Seminar, laboratory and clinical instruction in orthodontic theory and practice. Lecture, three hours; laboratory, 15 hours. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 credits.
