Overview
Prosthodontics: The Prosthodontics Residency program provides highly trained officers and Prosthodontists to provide care to ensure Dental Readiness. Graduates support the Services’ warfighting missions by employing a specialized skillset to handle the most complicated restorative needs of the US military population. Curriculum emphasis includes comprehensive training in the diagnosis, treatment planning and prosthetic rehabilitation of patients with complex needs in the areas of fixed, removable, implant and surgical prosthodontics resulting from missing teeth, oral structures and/or severely worn or debilitated dentitions. Graduates learn to utilize the full array of digital and classic planning and restorative techniques to master multidisciplinary management of the most complex oral treatment needs. Completion of this training will fully prepare the graduate to achieve specialty certification from the American Board of Prosthodontics (ABP). Graduates are assigned to installations worldwide in positions involving a combination of clinical, education, mentoring and laboratory activities in the field of prosthodontics.
SUMMARY: Prosthodontics Major
Length: 36 months
Locations: Army Postgraduate Dental School – Fort Gordon GA, Naval Postgraduate Dental School – Bethesda MD, Air Force Postgraduate Dental School – JBSA Lackland TX
Upon Completion: Certificate and Master of Science Degree (Oral Biology)
Location – Fort Gordon GA
First Year Curriculum
RGF 5411 | Introduction to Fixed Prosthodontics | 1 |
RGF 5421 | Introduction to Complete Denture I | 1 |
RGF 5431 | Clinical Prosthodontics I | 12 |
RGF 5441 | Introduction to Digital Dentistry Technology | 2 |
RGF 5471 | Principles & Design of Removable Partial Dental Prostheses I | 1 |
RGF 5481 | Maxillofacial Prosthetics I | 1 |
RGF 5601 | Dental Materials | 2 |
RGF 5711 | Prosthodontics Literature Review I | 8 |
RGF 5911 | Introduction to Prosthodontic Laboratory Techniques | 1 |
RGF 5443 | Digital Dentistry Technology I | 3 |
RCC 3100 | Dental Management of the Medically-Compromised/Medical Emergencies Seminar I | 0.5 |
RCC 4110 | Minimal Sedation I | 1 |
RCC 4160 | Endodontics/Periodontics/Prosthodontics Seminar I | 0.5 |
RCC 4164 | Oral Pathology/Oral Histology Seminar I | 0.5 |
RCC 4170 | Endodontics/Periodontics/Prosthodontics Short Course I | 1 |
RCC 4180 | Research Design and Statistics | 1.5 |
RCC 4190 | Cone Beam Computed Tomography I | 0.5 |
RCC 4260 | Orthodontics Seminar I | 2 |
RCC 4262 | Dental Implant Course I | 0.5 |
RCC 8000 | Ethics, Jurisprudence, and Civic Responsibility | 0.5 |
RCC 8001 | Oral Biology I | 2 |
RCC 8150 | Military Readiness Training I | 1 |
Total Credit Hours: | 43.5 |
Second Year Curriculum
RGF 5313 | Prosthodontic Research and Scientific Writing | 9 |
RGF 5422 | Introduction to Complete Dentures II | 1 |
RGF 5432 | Clinical Prosthodontics II | 15 |
RCC 5444 | Digital Dental Technology II | 3 |
RGF 5462 | Concepts of Occlusion and Articulators | 12 |
RGF 5472 | Principles & Design of Removable Partial Dental Prostheses II | 1 |
RGF 5482 | Maxillofacial Prosthetics II | 1 |
RGF 5712 | Prosthodontic Literature Review II | 8 |
RGF 5912 | Treatment Planning Board | 4 |
RCC 3116 | Inflammation and Immunology I | 1 |
RCC 4111 | Minimal Sedation II | 1 |
RCC 4161 | Endodontics/Periodontics/Prosthodontics Seminar II | 0.5 |
RCC 4165 | Oral Pathology/Oral Histology Seminar II | 0.5 |
RCC 4171 | Endodontics/Periodontics/Prosthodontics Short Course II | 1 |
RCC 4191 | Cone Beam Computed Tomography II | 0.5 |
RCC 4261 | Orthodontics Seminar II | 2 |
RCC 4263 | Dental Implant Course II | 0.5 |
RCC 8002 | Oral Biology II | 2 |
RCC 8151 | Military Readiness Training II | 1 |
Total Credit Hours: | 64.0 |
Third Year Curriculum
RGF 5314 | Prosthodontic Research & Scientific Writing III | 9 |
RGF 5433 | Clinical Prosthodontics III | 25 |
RGF 5445 | Digital Dental Technology III | 3 |
RGF 5723 | Prosthodontic Literature Review III | 4 |
RCC 4112 | Minimal Sedation III | 1 |
RCC 4162 | Endodontics/Periodontics/Prosthodontics Seminar III | 0.5 |
RCC 4172 | Endodontics/Periodontics/Prosthodontics Short Course III | 1 |
RCC 4192 | Cone Beam Computed Tomography III | 0.5 |
RCC 4264 | Dental Implant Course III | 0.5 |
RCC 8152 | Military Readiness Training III | 1 |
Total Credit Hours: | 45.5 |
Total Credit Hours: 148
Location - Joint Base San Antonio Lackland TX
Introductory Semester Curriculum
FLP 6 | Introduction to Research 0-1 | 1.5 |
FLP 7 | Complete Denture Prosthodontics | 2.0 |
FLP 8 | Removable Partial Prosthodontics | 2.0 |
FLP 9 | Fixed Prosthodontics | 2.0 |
FLP 10 | Implant Prosthodontics | 2.0 |
FLP 11 | Interdisciplinary Treatment Planning | 1.5 |
FLP 12 | Introduction to Military Dentistry | 1.0 |
FLP 13 | Esthetics in Fixed Prosthodontics | 2.0 |
FLP 14 | Dynamic Articulation | 1.5 |
Total Credit Hours: | 15.5 |
First Year Curriculum
FLA 122 | Dental Materials Technology | 1.75 |
FLC 104 | Research Methodology | 1 |
FLC 125 | Cone Beam Computed Tomography | 0.5 - 1 |
FLC 216 | Forensic Dentistry | 1 |
FLP 100 | Clinical Prosthodontics 1-1 | 5.5 |
FLP 101 | Clinical Prosthodontics 1 | 5.5 |
FLP 104 | Literature Seminar 1-1 | 0.5 |
FLP 105 | Literature Seminar 1 | 0.5 |
FLP 106 | Research 1-1 | 2 |
FLP 107 | Research 1 | 1.5 |
FLP 108 | Interdisciplinary Seminar 1-1 | 0.5 |
FLP 109 | Interdisciplinary Seminar 1 | 0.5 |
FLP 119 | Advanced and Surgical Implantology | 3.0 |
FLP 120 | Biomedical Foundations | 1.75 |
FLP 121 | Dental Laboratory Competency | 2.0 |
FLP 123 | Maxillofacial Prosthetics | 0.5 |
Total Credit Hours: | 27.00-27.50 |
Second Year Curriculum
Third Year Curriculum
Total Credit Hours: 104.3
Location – Naval Medical Leader and Professional Development Command, Bethesda MD
First Year Curriculum
N 2010 | Applied Dental Psychology | 0.5 |
N 2050 | Digital Dentistry | 1.5 |
N 2080 | Endodontics | 0.5-2 |
N 2180 | Management of Medical Emergencies | 0.5 |
N 2210 | Naval Operational Management | 1 |
N 2230 | Restorative Implantology | 1.0 |
N 2250 | Operative Dentistry | 1.0 |
N 2280 | Pharmacotherapeutics | 1 |
N 2300 | Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology & Radiology Part I | 2.0 |
N 2310 | Systemic Disease in Clinical Dentistry | 1.5 |
N 2390 | Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery | 0.5-1.0 |
N 2400 | Orthodontics | 1 |
N 2410
| Periodontics | 2.5 |
N 2460 | Surgical Implantology | 2 |
N 2490 | Nitrous Oxide | 0.5 |
N 2510 | Clinic and Lab Assignments, Prosthodontics | 13 |
N 2520 | Complete Dentures | 2.5 |
N 2530 | Fixed Prosthodontics | 2 |
N 2570 | Seminar, Prosthodontics/Endodontics | 0.5 |
N 2590 | Removable Partial Dentures | 1.5 |
N 2600 | Advanced Complete Dentures | 3 |
N 2610 | Advanced Fixed Prosthodontics | 5.5 |
N 2630 | Research Methods I | 1 |
N 2641 | Research Project | 3-4 |
N 2660 | Prosthodontic Oral Board I | 0.5 |
N 2710 | Advanced Removable Partial Dentures | 2 |
N 2810 | Forensic Dentistry | 1 |
N 2850 | Orofacial Pain | 1-2 |
N 2910 | Occlusion (Prosthodontics) | 3.5 |
N 2930 | Prosthodontics Conference, Guest Seminarians | 2.5 |
N 3120 | Seminar, Orthodontics I | 0.5 |
N 3110 | Ethics | 0.5 |
N 3511 | Seminar, Prosthodontics Literature | 2 |
N 3561 | Seminar, Treatment Planning | 2 |
N 3721 | Special Topics in Osseointegration I | 1.5 |
Total Credit Hours: | 67.5-71.5 |
Second Year Curriculum
N 2560 | Nutrition | 0.5 |
N 2921 | Speech Pathology | 0.5 |
N 3421 | Advanced Clinic and Lab: Prosthodontics | 27.5 |
N 3441 | Maxillofacial Prosthetics | 0.5-1.5 |
N 3450 | Oral Boards II | 0.5 |
N 3470 | Prosthodontics Conference, Guest Seminarians | 2.5 |
N 3512 | Seminar, Prosthodontic Literature | 2 |
N 3541 | Teaching, Prosthodontics | 1 |
N 3562 | Seminar, Treatment Planning | 2 |
N 3631 | Dental Implantology, Patient Presentations | 0.5 |
N 3710 | Dental Administration Management | 1 |
N 3722 | Special Topics in Osseointegration II | 1.5 |
N 3130 | Seminar, Orthodontics II | 0.5 |
Total Credit Hours: | 40.5-41.5 |
Third Year Curriculum
N 3310 | Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology & Radiology Part II | 1 |
N 3422 | Advanced Clinic, Prosthodontics | 25.5 |
N 3490 | Cleft Palate Conferences, Diagnosis and Treatment Planning | 0.5 |
N 3513 | Seminar, Prosthodontic Literature | 2 |
N 3542 | Teaching, Prosthodontics | 1 |
N 3550 | Research Methods II | 0.5 |
N 3563 | Seminar, Treatment Planning | 2 |
N 3600 | Oral Medicine Seminar | 1 |
N 3632 | Dental Implantology, Patient Presentations | 0.5 |
N 3690
| Research Project | 5 |
N 3723 | Special Topics in Osseointegration III | 1.5 |
N 3930 | Prosthodontic Conference, Guest Seminarians | 2.5 |
N 4200 | Prosthodontic Oral Boards III | 0.5 |
Total Credit Hours: | 43.5 |
Total Credit Hours: 150.5