Courses

The listing of a course description here does not guarantee a course’s being offered in a particular semester. Please refer to the published schedule of classes on the MyBU Student Portal for confirmation a class is actually being taught and for specific course meeting dates and times.

• SDM OR 901: Case Presentation
  This course consists of case presentations given by students in all three years of the program. Cases presented include initial diagnosis and treatment planning, progress cases, problem cases, finished cases, and cases requiring interdisciplinary care. 3rd and 4th sem.
• SDM OR 902: Case Presentation
  This course consists of case presentations given by students in all three years of the program. Cases presented include initial diagnosis and treatment planning, progress cases, problem cases, finished cases, and cases requiring interdisciplinary care. 5th and 6th sem.
• SDM OR 910: Literature Review
  Current topics related to orthodontic clinical practice. 1st and 2nd sem.
• SDM OR 920: Literature Review
  A weekly seminar concentrating on critical evaluation of current and classical orthodontic literature. 3rd and 4th sem.
• SDM OR 950: Diagnosis and Occlusion
  Advanced diagnostic and occlusal adjustment techniques; the importance of occlusion in optimal orthodontic diagnosis and treatment. Dr. Chira.1st and 2nd sem., 12 hours
• SDM OR 951: Diagnosis and Occlusion
  Advanced diagnostic and occlusal adjustment techniques; the importance of occlusion in optimal orthodontic diagnosis and treatment. Dr. Chira. 3rd and 4th sem, 12 hours
• SDM OR 952: Diagnosis and Occlusion
  Advanced diagnostic and occlusal adjustment techniques; the importance of occlusion in optimal orthodontic diagnosis and treatment. Dr. Chira. 5th and 6th sem., 12 hours
• SDM OR 991: Research: Orthodontics
  Guided investigation of the field of orthodontics or its related preclinical sciences. Partially satisfies requirements for the MSD (1st-2nd sem.) or the DScD (1st-2nd sem.)
• SDM OR 992: Research: Orthodontics
  Guided investigation of the field of orthodontics or its related preclinical sciences. Partially satisfies requirements for the MSD (3rd-4th sem.) or the DScD. (3rd-4th sem.)
• SDM OR 993: Research: Orthodontics
  Guided investigation of the field of orthodontics or its related preclinical sciences. Partially satisfies requirements for the MSD (5th-6th sem.) or the DScD. (5th -- 6th sem.)
• SDM OR 994: Research: Orthodontics
  Guided investigation of the field of orthodontics or its related preclinical sciences. Partially satisfies requirements for the DScD degree .(7th -- 8th sem.)
• SDM OR 995: Research: Orthodontics
  Guided investigation of the field of orthodontics or its related preclinical sciences. Partially satisfies requirements for the DScD degree (9th-10th sem.)
• SDM OS 520: General Medicine and Dental Correlations
  This course is intended to be a transition course -- taking general biology concepts previously learned and applying them to commonly encountered human diseases. Upon completion of this course, a dental student should be able to identify familiar and recurring clinical conditions related to each human system, recognize the mechanism of that disease, and understand the implications of the disease and its treatment on general dental care.
• SDM OS 521: Pain Control I
  This course presents the pharmacological aspects and indications for the use of local anesthetics as well as patient evaluation, relevant head and neck anatomy, neurophysiology and detailed discussion of injections techniques. It will introduce post-operative pain management, prescription and medical consultation writing and review local and systemic complications associated with local anesthesia administration. The course will provide an introduction into the impact of prescribing practices and review new technology, techniques and medications regarding local anesthetics. Each student will participate in a laboratory/clinical exercise, which will be offered in the spring semester, prior to entering the clinic.
• SDM OS 530: Oral Surgery
  This course is an introduction to the basic concepts and techniques of tooth removal as well as minor and major oral surgical procedures. Patient history and physical examination are described along with the prevention and management of medical emergencies in the dental office. Emphasis will be given to the pre-surgical patient evaluation, risk management, and basic surgical principles.
• SDM OS 532: Pain Control II
  The course builds on the concepts presented in OS 521, and is designed to provide the dental student with a more in-depth post-operative pain management and an introduction to anxiety control of the dental patient. This will include consideration of the impact of prescribing practices and substance use disorder. Emphasis is placed on the psychology of pain, behavior techniques, oral and intravenous sedation, general anesthesia, along with enhanced emphasis on the properties, monitoring, safety and administration of nitrous oxide. Patient evaluation and the prevention and treatment of medical emergencies and management of anesthetic complications will be discussed. Prescription and medical consult writing exercises are given throughout the course.
• SDM OS 640: Clinical Oral Surgery
  This course provides a clinical rotation in oral and maxillofacial surgery in the third and fourth year. It is designed to give the undergraduate students clinical hands-on experience in office surgical procedures pertinent to the general dentist. The student may have the opportunity to observe and/or assist with more complicated procedures in the both the clinic and operating room setting during the rotation. Daily seminars are given throughout the rotation. The third and fourth year students are provided a review of the nitrous oxide -- oxygen sedation during one of the rotation seminars and the fourth year students are provided a clinical experience with the delivery of nitrous oxide -- oxygen sedation. The opportunity to observe and/or assist in the delivery of nitrous oxide -- oxygen sedation (as well as other sedation techniques) in the clinic is available throughout the rotation. Clinical rotation: Two weeks.
• SDM OS 740: Introduction to OMS
  The Department of OMS offers the entering class students of the 6-year MD-integrated OMS residency training program the opportunity to participate in various clinical and non-clinical activities during the first two weeks of their program. The students will be assigned to observe the functioning of the department, work with the resident and attending staff in managing the patients on the OMS services in the operating room, inpatient floors, and in the office setting. Attendance at morning and afternoon rounds and other teaching conferences is an important part of the course. There will be an opportunity to take in-house night-call with other fellow OMS residents at BMC. Day to day instruction will focus on principles and pathophysiology of head and neck surgical disease, pre-, peri-, and post-operative care of surgical patients, and evaluation and development of procedural skills in minor oral surgery in an ambulatory setting.
• SDM OS 750: Advanced Physical Diagnosis for CAGS/MD
  Advanced principles of and procedures in the physical evaluation in preparation for matriculation into the second year of medical school. Advanced students learn to perform a physical examination, obtain a patient history and evaluate patient information. The first year resident will spend 3 weeks shadowing a clinician-mentor in the ambulatory or hospital setting. The experience is meant to introduce the student to the practice of medicine (broadly defined) and allows the student to practice targeted parts of the medical interview and physical exam. The hands-on learning that these sessions provide is a complement to the basic science courses and physical examination skills obtained in Dental school. A critical component of this education exercise should be on observation of the medical interview in action and observing aspects of the patient-doctor relationship. Limited skills such as interviewing for an HPI, taking a family history, checking vital signs, and holding an otoscope will also be covered. Topics range from how to take vital signs to enhancing awareness of cross-cultural issues. The mentor will need to help the student complete the assignment by arranging for the student to spend a little extra time with a patient each week or two. In some cases the mentor will choose to discuss with the student how s/he approaches a certain topic (for example, how to screen for domestic violence in the pediatric setting.
• SDM OS 761: Medical Concerns of the Dental Patient
  A review of internal medicine and the management of the medically compromised dental patient.