Course Listing for Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery


179.03 Temporomandibular Joint Clinic (0 - 4 units)

Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s):C. McNeill Prerequisite(s): DDS degree
Activities: Clinical Experience/Patient Contact: 3 hours
Participation in the Temporomandibular Joint Clinic applying knowledge of history-taking and differential diagnosis and utilizing such diagnostic techniques. (OR MX SURG)


186 Acupuncture for Orofacial Pain (1 units)

Winter
Instructor(s):G. Goddard Prerequisite(s): Completion of two years of dental school; course will be offered as an elective.
Restrictions:No students below D3. Activities: Seminar: 1 hours, Clinical Experience/Patient Contact: 1 - 2 hours
Each student will have a basic knowledge of the basic acupunction points, learn good needling technique for painlessly inserting acupuncture needles for dental and orofacial pain. Students will be taught safe placement of needles and how to prevent or manage complications. (OR MX SURG)


189 Dentistry for Medical Students (3 - 18 units)

Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s):M. Pogrel Prerequisite(s): Completion of year two of medical school.
Restrictions:Enrolled in UCSF or UCD School of Medicine. Activities: Lecture: 6 hours, Clinical Experience/Patient Contact: 34 hours
Students will conduct oral screenings and evaluate patients with dental problems including toothache, oral pathology, dentofacial deformities, temporomandibular joint pathology, and preprosthetic problems. They will learn to give intraoral injections, perform intraoral biopsies, extract simple teeth and assist with more major surgical procedures. (OR MX SURG)


189.01 Clinical Experince in Hospital Dentistry (3 units)

Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s):S. Saeed
Restrictions:Fourth-year dental student in good standing.
This clinical elective in hospital dentistry allows students to provide general restorative dentistry to special need patients under general anesthesia. (PRV RS DEN)


189.02 Implant Patient Evaluation and Surgical Management (2 - 4 units)

Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s):M. Hossaini-Zadeh Prerequisite(s): Students must continue to manage comprehensive care prodices in the Student Dental Clinics. Students must attend PCC 146 (4 hours per week).
Restrictions:D4 or ID4 student in good standing. Permission from Dental School Administration. Activities: Lecture: 1 hours, Seminar: 1 hours, Clinical Experience/Patient Contact: 28 hours
This is an enrichment elective available to D4 and ID4 dental students who are in good standing and approaching graduation. This enrichment elective includes participation in implant lectures, seminars, clinical evaluation and preoperative planning, surgical implant procedures (functioning as assistant surgeon), follow-up care, stage 2 implant procedures, and preparation for prosthodontic care. (OR MX SURG)


189.04 Adv Clin Oral Surgery & Implantology (0 - 16.5 units)

Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s):R. Chigurupati Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year standing and approval of department chairperson
Activities: Conference: 2 hours, Clinical Experience/Patient Contact: 30 hours
Clerkships at UC, affiliated or other institutions. Students participate in oral surgery care of ambulatory and hospitalized patients and attend seminars and conferences. (OR MX SURG)


198 Supervised Study (1 - 3 units)

Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s):M. Pogrel
Activities: Library: 3 - 9 hours
Library research and directed reading under supervision of a member of the faculty with the approval of the chairperson of the department. (OR MX SURG)


416 History Taking and Physical Diagnosis (2 units)

Summer
Instructor(s):S. Miyasaki, M. Pogrel, R. Silva, B. Bast
Activities: Seminar: 2 hours, Clinical Experience/Patient Contact: 2 hours
This course is designed to familiarize students with the techniques of history taking and the basic methods of physical examination. Practical experience in physical examination and historical interviews will be demonstratied in the hospital enviornment. (OR MX SURG)


471 Applied Surgical Anatomy (1 units)

Fall, Winter, Spring
Instructor(s):B. Bast Prerequisite(s): Course offered to first-year residents in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, other OMFS residents by arrangement, UCSF School of Dentistry postdoctoral residents and students by arrangement, selected senior dental students by arrangement as an elective
Activities: Laboratory: 3 hours
Relationships of gross anatomical structures of the head and neck are studied during laboratory dissections. Emphasis is placed on the correlations of cadaver dissection findings to diagnosis and on operating room surgery. Dissections will be approached as surgical procedures. (OR MX SURG)


473 Orthognathic Surgery Seminar (1 units)

Fall, Winter, Spring
Instructor(s):M. Pogrel Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in oral & max
Activities: Seminar: 1 hours
Residents will participate in evaluation and defining treatment options for patients with facial and dental deformities. (OR MX SURG)


474 Oral & Max Surgery Seminar (1 units)

Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s):M. Pogrel Prerequisite(s): Limited to interns and residents
Seminar includes presentation of case studies, literature review, clinical pathology presentations, and occasional guest lectures. (OR MX SURG)