Eastman Institute for Oral Health / Educational Programs / Orofacial Pain Residency Program / Curriculum

Curriculum and Rotations

Clinical Activities

Residents develop clinical expertise with an understanding of differential diagnosis, treatment planning, and outcomes assessment of patients with facial pain. Orofacial Pain students rotate through several clinics during their training.

Rotations

Neurology Headache Clinic, Strong Memorial Hospital
Oral Surgery, Strong Memorial Hospital
Anesthesiology Department Pain Clinic
Howitt Urgent Dental Care Clinic

Curriculum

Didactic Curriculum

DEN 400 – Special Care I: Medical-Dental Inter-relationships
DEN 406 – Instructional Design
DEN 407 – Ethical Guidelines for Dentists
DEN 409 – Temporomandibular Joint Disorders
DEN 410 – Head and Neck Anatomy
DEN 411 – Oral Diseases and Pathology
DEN 414 - Understanding Pain
DEN 416 – Fundamentals of Dental Caries
DEN 417 – Principles of Evidence-Based Dentistry
DEN 418 – Oral Microbiology

DEN 419 – Dental Research Seminar
DEN 421 – Craniofacial Growth and Development
DEN 422 – Pharmacology and Therapeutics
DEN 423 – Oral Epidemiology I: Introduction and Principles
DEN 424 – Oral Epidemiology II: Research and Design Analysis
DEN 426 – Fundamentals of Dental Caries
DEN 440 – Control of Pain and Anxiety with Anesthesia Techniques
DEN 441 – Physical Diagnosis
DEN 422 – Basic Concepts in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Clinical Curriculum

Clinical Case Presentations
Orofacial Pain Clinic - Patient Examination and Diagnosis
Fabrication of Intra Oral Orthotics and Stents
Diagnosis and management of Sleep Apnea
Neurobiology and pharmacotherapeutics of Pain

Neurology of Orofacial Pain
General Literature Review
Quantitative Sensory testing
Ancillary Series in Oral medicine, Anesthesiology, Behavioral Psychology, Headaches, Neurology and Radiology
General Literature Review – Evidence based management