Didactic Objective and Guidelines

Prosthodontic lecture seminars:

The prosthodontic lecture seminars are conducted once a week, for one and one-half hours from August through May. Material is presented from the following selected topic areas. Lectures will include Power Point/Keynote presentations, handouts, and any other items that will help convey the information. These lectures are given by residency staff, dental school professors, private practitioners, residents, and members of the Armed Forces stationed in the area. These include multiple specialties in addition to prosthodontics. The use of digital technology may be included in any or all of these presentations.

Fixed Prosthodontic Discussion Areas

1. Diagnosis and Treatment Planning
2. Preparations
3. Soft Tissue Management
4. Impressions
5. Interim Restorations
6. Crown Contours, Pontics
7. Articulator Selection, Rehabilitation Techniques, Functionally Generated Path
8. Centric Position, Interocclusal Records
9. Mandibular Movement and Recording
10. Implants
11. Cementation, Failures
12. Ceramics
13. Temporomandibular Disorders
14. Endodontic Considerations, Build-ups and Posts

Removable Partial Denture Discussion Areas:

1. Introduction
2. Diagnosis and Treatment Planning
3. Design Principles
4. Components and Clasping
5. Distal Extension RPDs
6. Occlusion
7. Fitting and Insertion
8. Swinglock RPDs
9. Rotational Path
10. Miscellaneous

Complete Denture Discussion Areas:

1. Diagnosis and Treatment Planning
2. Impressions
3. Centric Relation Records
4. Vertical Dimension
5. Denture Occlusion
6. Anterior Tooth Selection and Esthetics
7. Overdentures
8. Immediate Dentures
9. Miscellaneous

Maxillofacial Discussion Areas:

1. Management of the Irradiated Head and Neck and Oncologic Patient
2. Prosthodontic Rehabilitation of Acquired Maxillary and Mandibular Defects
3. Prosthodontic Rehabilitation of Congenital and Developmental Defects
4. Palatopharyngeal Function, Disabilities, Speech Therapy and Speech Aids

Implants:

1. History
2. Diagnosis
3. Treatment Planning/Options
4. Materials

Temporomandibular Dysfunction:

1. Anatomy
2. Diagnosis
3. Treatment

Other related topics:

1. Periodontics
2. Endodontics
3. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
4. Orthodontics
5. Esthetics

Resident Lecture Seminars

1. Objectives:
   1. Provide formal instruction in a variety of topic areas relative to prosthodontics and related basic sciences. This presentation will include a Power Point/Keynote presentation and a written handout.
   2. Establish an In depth/Understanding knowledge as dictated with skills necessary in lecture preparation and presentation. Emphasis is on communicative ability development and subject content.
   3. Disseminate information pertinent to the training of specialists in prosthodontics.
2. Guidelines:
   1. Residents will be assigned topics for presentation each academic year.
   2. Residents will lecture in rotation, one lecture during the first year, two in the second, and two or three in the final year.
   3. Each presentation will be evaluated by a member of the teaching staff.

Staff Lecture Seminars

1. Objectives:
   1. Provide formal instruction on a variety of prosthodontic subject areas.
   2. Disseminate information pertinent to the training of specialists in prosthodontics.
2. Guidelines:
   1. Each mentor will select topics in their specialty for presentation to the residents.
   2. All lectures will include the latest advances in their specialty area.