Want to be better prepared for the Fixed, Removable, and Operative portions of the psychomotor testing that is required by most United States and Canadian dental schools as part of their admissions process?

This 40-hour course presents an extensive review of the Fixed, Removable and Operative psychomotor skills required for International Applicants as part of the admissions process at U.S. and Canadian dental schools.  The course will include didactic and laboratory hands-on sessions with participants working with the Department of Restorative Dentistry faculty on preclinical exercises.  Enrollment will be limited to forty foreign dental school graduates.
  

Objectives:

1. Operative Dentistry (manikin exercises.)
   • Amalgam and composite preparations and restorations
     consistent with state dental licensing examinations and
     the Northeast Regional Board Examination.
        
2. Fixed Prosthodontics (manikin exercises.)
   • Perform a preparation and fabricate a temporary restoration
     on a posterior tooth for a porcelain fused to metal full crown.
• Perform a preparation and fabricate a temporary restoration
  on an anterior tooth for a full ceramic crown.
• Perform preparations and fabricate a temporary restoration
  for a 3 unit bridge.
     
3. Removable Prosthodontics.
• Analyze and survey diagnostic models.
• Design removable partial denture prostheses appropriate for
  various edentulous configurations.

Department of Restorative Dentistry

MARC ROSENBLUM, DMD - Course Director
Associate Professor

LOUIS DiPEDE, DMD, FAPC
Assistant Professor

HENRY MARDER, DDS
Clinical Assistant Professor

REENA VARGHESE, DMD, MSEd, MSc
Assistant Professor