Curriculum and Rotations

The General Practice Residency Objectives include:

• Educate residents with hands-on experience in multiple specialties
• Teach residents to function at independent private practice levels
• Provide exposure to diversified problems of patients
• Assure competence with management of medically compromised and physically and mentally challenged patients.
• Manage patients in the hospital setting, especially those with a history of trauma
• Understand the dental management as part of treatment of a patient as a complete human being
• Provide exposure to the dental specialties for residents to consider specialization
• Develop skills to prepare complex treatment plans
• Develop skills with varied dental materials and dental laboratories
• Design and complete a research project
• Develop skills for implant diagnosis and treatment

Areas of Concentration

Oral diagnosis: medical risk assessment, treatment planning, brush biopsy, informed consent
Endodontics: anterior and posterior endodontics, Apicoectomy
Pediatric dentistry: Pulpotomy, stainless steel crown, fixed space maintainer
Restorative dentistry: Amalgam, anterior and posterior composites
Prosthetics: single crown, partial denture, complete denture, bridges, Electrosurgery, implant impression, implant crown
Practice management: resume, completion of dental chart
Anesthesia and pain control: infiltration and block anesthesia, nitrous oxide analgesia
Oral and maxillofacial surgery: asepsis principles, basic and surgical extraction, soft tissue impaction, partial bony impaction, full bony impaction, inpatient consultation, Preprosthetic surgery, implant placement, implant uncovering, soft tissue biopsy
Operating Room technique: prep, scrub and drape, order writing, operative note dictation
Periodontics: periodontal charting, scaling and root planing, periodontal flap surgery, periodontal graft surgery, crown lengthening, implant placement

Didactic program

Residents receive academic instruction in general dentistry and all of the specialties of dentistry. In addition, treatment planning, implant case reviews, literature reviews and discussion of outcomes of cases are all held in a small conference format.

Rotations

Comprehensive rotations include Anesthesia, the Emergency Department and Physical Diagnosis

Support staff

In order to assure efficient quality care the Department of Dentistry employs four dental assistants, two hygienists, a receptionist and a business coordinator. This ensures that residents are able to provide the highest level of services for their patients.

Summary

The spirit and camaraderie developed at the Mountainside Hospital General Practice Residency provide the basis for a life-long commitment to learning, high quality care for patients, community involvement and professional relationships with fellow dentists and physicians.

For more information about the Dental Residency Program at Mountainside Hospital please write to Mary Lapinski Voytus, D.D.S. at Mary.Voytus@Mountainsidehosp.com or call or write to Rosalie Wannat, department assistant, at (973) 429-6888 or Rosalie.Wannat@mountainsidehosp.com.

Physical mailing address:

Mountainside Hospital
Attn: Dental Residency Program
1 Bay Avenue, 3rd floor
Montclair, NJ 07042

We look forward to hearing from you.