Mar 15, 2025  
2024-2025 SDM Dental School Catalog 
    
2024-2025 SDM Dental School Catalog

Periodontics, Advanced Certificate


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The advanced dental education program in Periodontics trains specialists for careers as academicians, scientists and clinicians. The program is designed to train dentists in the art and science of periodontology, who will be able to plan, initiate and carry out a research program in a field relevant to periodontics. The clinical phase of the periodontics program is offered in conjunction with a research degree program: periodontics/MS in oral sciences, or biomaterials or periodontics/PhD in oral biology.

 

Periodontics Certificate Core


Required Clinical Core (56 credits)


Required Didactic Core - Continuous Registration (57 credits)


Required Didactic Core - One-Time Registration (32 credits)


(Ph.D. students or those with a Ph.D. pursuing a postdoctoral research program may enroll in alternate or substitute courses in lieu of the courses below with approval from the Program Director)

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