What To Expect as an AEGD Resident

Providing Primary Oral Health Care

• Provide episodic and comprehensive multidisciplinary oral health care that the general dentist coordinates.
• Understand and obtain informed consent.
• Treat patients who present with a wide variety of acute and chronic systemic disorders and social difficulties, including patients with special needs.
• Promote oral health through disease prevention activities.
• Maintain a patient record system that facilitates the retrieval and analysis of the process and outcomes of patient treatment.
• Obtain and interpret relevant clinical data to develop a logical, sequenced and comprehensive treatment plan to restore patients' health, function and aesthetics.
• Practice and promote ethical principles of dentistry in relation to patients, colleagues, institutions and staff.
• Treat patients efficiently in a dental healthcare setting.
• Provide compassionate service to the community with empathy towards others, especially patients with limited access to oral health care.
• Use effective sterilization techniques, workplace controls and other universal precautions to prevent the spread of disease in the health care setting.
• Evaluate outcomes of treatment to develop a prognosis and plan for long-term oral health.

Restoration of Teeth

• Provide direct and indirect restorations for single teeth, using a variety of functionally acceptable materials and techniques.
• Understand the materials used to fabricate dental restorations.
• Restore endodontically treated teeth.

Periodontal Therapy

• Use clinical data to develop an appropriate diagnosis and prognosis of the periodontium and develop an intervention plan when necessary.
• Treat patients presenting with mild and moderate periodontal disease using non-surgical interventions.
• Manage severe periodontitis patients.
• Provide adjunctive periodontal soft/hard tissue procedures to improve periodontal health, enhance aesthetics, or facilitate restorative procedures.
• Evaluate the results of periodontal treatment to establish/monitor a periodontal maintenance program.

Endodontic Therapy

• Treat anterior and posterior teeth with endodontic therapy.
• Use relevant clinical information to test and diagnose teeth demonstrating pulpal pathology.
• Manage complex endodontic complications.

Oral Surgery

• Demonstrate proficiency in exodontia.
• Manage or treat patients with orofacial pain and infections.
• Manage postoperative pain with appropriate pharmacological approaches.
• Identify and manage soft tissue lesions and pathology.
• Manage temporomandibular disorders and other facial pain disorders.
• Treat or manage patients demonstrating complications from oral surgery.
• Be familiar with techniques to manage patients with traumatic injuries to the face or dentition.
• Be familiar with the diagnosis and management of oral mucosal diseases and soft tissue biopsy.

Evaluation and Treatment of Emergencies

• Perform limited evaluation exams to collect clinical information and diagnose causes of dental pain.
• Anticipate, diagnose and provide initial treatment and follow-up management for medical emergencies that may occur during dental treatment.
• Prevent emergencies through coordination and communication with physicians and other healthcare providers to understand patient medical conditions and suitability for dental care.

Pain and Anxiety Control

• Use nitrous oxide to alleviate anxiety during patient care.
• Use parenteral moderate sedation to alleviate anxiety during patient care.
• Use other pain control and anxiety relief methods, such as local anesthesia, behavior management techniques and communication skills.
• Perform medical, social and dental history reviews and physical exams to identify and manage patients with complex medical presentations.

Managing the Edentulous Space

• Treat patients with complete and partial removable dentures.
• Use dental laboratories to develop fixed and removable indirect restorations; communicate effectively with these laboratories.
• Place single implants in abundant bone.
• Restore dental implants to provide function and aesthetics for patients.
• Use site development techniques to preserve and restore anatomic bone contours.

In addition to the first-year competencies, successful graduates will demonstrate the following additional competencies.

Implant Sites

• Perform dental procedures to develop adequate bone for implant placement in jaws deficient in width and height.
• Communicate professionally to the dental community regarding original research or focused literature review findings that promote and further dentistry practice.

While our program is competency-based, educators recommend several foundational exercises to display and document clinical competencies adequately. Please find the minimum number of cases expected below.

PGY1 Expectations

PGY2 Expectations