Do dental students do cadaver dissections also?

[BigRedPingpong]

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Do they do the whole body, or just head and facial area?

 

[3rdMolarRoller]

We are doing everything except for the lower limbs/ below the pelvic area.

If you come here, there is no prosected cadaver and you take it apart section at a time with a group of 4-5 students

 

[UBTom]

Full-body dissections here... Meds and Dents at Buffalo take Gross together and do the same full-body dissections.

Gross is very intense at Buffalo... One semester, lasts from August to December, divided into three blocks (musculoskeletal from head to toe, then thoracic/abdominal/pelvic, then specific structures of the head and neck). Instructors show us prosections, then we have to do the dissections on our assigned cadavers. Course also includes lecture sessions. Altogether, Gross is a 6-credit-hour course, 3 for lecture and 3 for lab (though we certainly spend more than just 3 hours in the lab every week-- More like 10+!)

During my year, we dents had a higher exam score average than the meds. 😎

 

[captaintripps]

At UConn, the entire cadaver is dissected. Med and Dental cooperate in the task - generally 4 students per body. Believe it or not, it can be fun: hands on learning.

 

[ItsGavinC]

We did the entire body, however it was prosected.

In Head and Neck we dissect everything.

 

[PashaJ]

At BU we go only up to the pelvic region. We're told that we know the same amount as Meds in terms of the thorax but we have to know the head and neck a lot better. It's prosected.

 

[Revellian]

At UCLA we dissect everything but the lower limbs and pelvic area, with special emphasis on the head and neck - four students per body.

For those of you with prosected cadavers, what exactly is the condition of the cadavers? Do you do any dissection at all, or do you have a demonstration body for each region that people can take turns looking at? And for those that did the full body dissections, does the course take 2 quarters? I can't imagine that much material being packed into a single quarter. That would suck. Big time.

 

[3rdMolarRoller]

We disect for 8 hours a week with lots of emphasis on head an neck. This is the only quarter that we will be disecting.

I think the advantage of not having it prosected is that it's fresher...i.e. nothing is dried out. I mean we spray the hell out of ours and the room is colder then $hit and some parts get dry. Not dry dry, but nothing like when you first cut it open.

I'm kinda of glad we do not have to work with med students. After reading the topic in the pre-dent forum...I would get sick of the cockyness.

 

[BigRedPingpong]

Ha! THe "harvard sucks" avatar is merely a product of Ivy league rivalry. As you may have noticed I am a cornell Undergraduate. If you attended an ivy league, you may have realized the fierce competition between the crimson and reds! Nothing personal against Harvard med or UG or harvard in general! Just personal against their sorry ass hockey team.

Originally posted by mzalendo
Pingpong (although it seems you're a little sour about Harvard), "the sucks on the veritas"
At Harvard we do everything the meds, I mean everything. We then go back in the evening and do head and neck. After a while sharing classes with the meds there is a sense of mutual respect, dental students get special recognition for holding their own with the meds plus weighing in on dental classes.

 

[RSXer]

At Maryland, we do whole body, except for extremeties. We dissect everything. Dissecting the body was pretty cool....for the first 5 minutes..... Then it just becomes an annoyance thattakes up about 20hours per week.

On a side note, I guess we should be thankful since we got some pretty well known profs at our school teaching this to us and watching us dissect. Anybody use any Hiatt and Gartner texts?

 

[3rdMolarRoller]

We use Gatner and Netter. They are ok but I like the McMinns color atlas the best. Its almost identical to studying the cadaver.

 

[drPheta]

We do our own dissections here. Nothing below the perineum, though, and our books are Moore (or Mini Moore) and Netter.

 

[ddstothecor]

At NSUCDM - we have prosected bodies to view for overall gross anatomy. Following that portion of the class, we have an eight week module with the meds for head and neck where we dissect half of a human head and there are prosected specimens to look at for the head and neck as well.

The head and neck portion of the course is, by far, a more interesting way to learn; plus, if you do a bad job on dissecting, there are no worries because you can see some beautiful specimens in prosection.

 

[ItsGavinC]

Originally posted by drPheta
We do our own dissections here. Nothing below the perineum, though, and our books are Moore (or Mini Moore) and Netter.

We also use Moore and Netter.