Advanced Dental Education Program General Practice Residency

Program Overview

Advanced Dental Education Program General Practice Residency

Program Overview

The Advanced Dental Education Program in General Practice Residency (GPR) at Stony Brook University was established in 1980. The program has 20 fully accredited one- and two-year positions commencing approximately July 1 of each year.

Program Objectives

The General Practice Residency program is an educational program designed to provide clinical, didactic, and hospital experience at the post-doctoral level. The program prepares residents to:

• Provide comprehensive oral healthcare to a wide range of ambulatory and hospitalized patients
• Understand the relationship between oral and systemic diseases, to develop professionals and to pursue areas of interest under close supervision of attending staff
• Refine and advance knowledge and clinical skills in the practice of dentistry and the management and treatment of complex restorative problems
• Demonstrate the application of the basic sciences to the clinical practice of dentistry
• Understand the process of self-assessment and peer review

Clinical Training

The clinical training is designed to provide advanced experience in preventive dentistry, restorative dentistry, periodontics, endodontics, and oral-and maxillofacial surgery. Residents treat patients with increasingly complex dental and medical problems, such as patients with implant restorations, lost vertical dimension of occlusion, as well as systemic or psychiatric disorders, the developmentally disabled, geriatric and pediatric patients.

Didactic Component

The seminar program contains a didactic component for each clinical discipline. Service rotations to emergency medicine and anesthesiology take place at affiliated institutions and are designed to allow for continuity of patient care.

Program Details

• Interim Program Directors: John J. Foti, DDS and Matthew Hanna, DMD
• Program Length: 1-2 years
• Number of Positions: 20
• Start Date: Approximately July 1 of each year

Program Location

• Department of Hospital Dentistry
• 151 Westchester Hall
• School of Dental Medicine
• Stony Brook University
• Stony Brook, New York