3rd and 4th year requirements?

[williast06]

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I am a Baylor D3 and was wondering what different schools clinical requirements were as a 3rd year and 4th year?
For 3rd year ours are:

Fixed 10 crowns
Opperative 35 (divided into several different criteria)
Removable 4 (F/F=1, P/=1, Immediate=1, F/Natural=.5)
Oral surgery 50 extractions
Endo 2 teeth (prob the hardest to come by)
Perio 8 quads (type II and type III)

Fourth year:
Fixed 60 crowns (includes crowns from D3)
Removable 10 units-D3 credits carry over
Opperative-Not entirely sure
Oral surgery-150 extractions (includes ext from D3)
Endo-4 teeth
Perio-No idea

 

[jay47]

I am a Baylor D3 and was wondering what different schools clinical requirements were as a 3rd year and 4th year?

For 3rd year ours are:

Fixed 3 crowns
Operative ~40-50* (divided into several different criteria)
Removable (no removable requirement for 3rd yr, 1 recommended)
Oral surgery 25 extractions
Endo- 3 teeth
Perio- Complete 3 perio patients, including at least 2 quads each, with re-eval, maintenance...etc..

Fourth year:
Fixed ~17* crowns (includes crowns from D3)
Removable 8 units-(includes 3rd year)
Operative- ~160* (includes 3rd year)
Oral surgery- 75 extractions (includes 3rd year)
Endo-6 teeth (includes 3rd year)
Perio- Complete 2 complex perio patients (at least 3 full quadrants- with all the follow ups)

Houston 4th year here- above are our requirements (roughly). Keep in mind that the treatment planning philosophy between our schools is different- what you guys plan as a crown, many of our faculty will plan as an indirect inlay/onlay.

**Also note that almost all requirements are based upon relative values NOT absolute procedures. For example, a class 2 composite is 1.5 "units", and we need ~90 "units" for 3rd year. A class 2 amalgam is 1 "unit" and a Premise inlay is 12"units".

The real question is what are the prices for procedures at your school. I find that a VAST majority of our patients our very cost conscious. We have a LOT of removable patients to complete, and I would say you have no trouble at all completing removable unless you just procrastinate. Fixed however is quite difficult to find for some people due to the high cost (and our prices just increased 40% on bigger procedures).

To the budding dental student, don't be too worried about numbers in dental school. You WILL get faster in the first month of practice than any dental student is, but I would say the focus at our school is definitely on quality and perfection rather than gross numbers (and I'm not saying Baylor isn't focused on quality, I can only speak for Houston)

 

[doc toothache]

Sixty crowns sounds like an awful lot of crowns.

 

[1docholliday]

MWU AZ requirements aren't fixed numbers. You have to challenge a competency in 4th year (ant crowns, post crowns, removable prosth, FPD comp, O/S, emerg, pedo, etc etc etc). Some areas require more than one competency, etc. There's a large pt pool these days so it's not difficult to get a lot of experience in all areas.

 

[Ostracized]

LOL. I went to University of Toronto. Our requirements were 8 crowns total, and 3 dentures (1 full, 2 partial). And even that was tough to do. What a joke.