PROGRAMS
Dental Anesthesiology
(ANESTH)
Dental Public Health
(DPH)
This 12-month (24-month half-time optional)
program prepares residents to successfully
challenge the certifying examination of the
American Board of Dental Public Health (ABDPH)
and to acquire practical public health skills that
will facilitate meaningful employment in the
public health field after graduation. DPH is unique
among dental specialties in that it considers the
entire community as its “patient.” As such, the
DPH specialist promotes oral health through
organized community efforts, such as improving
access to care for underserved population groups
and developing community-based prevention
programs, rather than providing treatment to
patients “one-at-a-time.” The DPH residency
teaches a wide range of skills such as how to
develop and manage clinical dental programs,
how to develop community oriented prevention
programs, and how to conduct health services
and epidemiologic research. The curriculum
provides residents with a wide range of handson and didactic experiences that address all DPH
competency areas required by the American
Board of Dental Public Health (ABDPH). DPH
residents train at a Lutheran-affiliated community
health centers serving geographically and
ethnically diverse communities across the
United States.
This 36-month hospital-based program offers
hands-on training in the anesthetic management
of patients in the operating room, outpatient
clinic and dental office setting. Residents are
trained in the full spectrum of anesthesia skills
from intubated general anesthesia to IV/IM/
oral sedation. Most training occurs in the main
operating room at Lutheran Medical Center
in Brooklyn, New York where residents are
directly involved in providing anesthesia for a
wide variety of general surgical cases. First year
residents spend a total of three months on offservice rotations in Medicine and Pediatrics.
Second year residents spend months on rotation
for mobile office-based anesthesia as well as
three months on rotation in a state-of-the-art
fully equipped surgicenter dedicated exclusively
to anesthetic management of the dental patient.
Residents provide dental care to sedated
patients utilizing the operator-anesthetist model
of care. The didactic curriculum complements
and reinforces the clinical anesthesia training.
Graduates of the program are proficient in the
anesthetic management of patients with TMJ
dysfunction/facial neuralgias and chronic pain –
in both hospital and non-hospital settings – of a
wide range of dental patients including: children,
special needs patients, phobic adults, the
medically compromised, patients with extensive
treatment plans and the trauma patient.
N Y U Lu t her a n Den ta l Medicine
Postdoctoral Dental Residency Programs
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