GPR's and AEGD with implants and endo

[PG2010]

hi, I am planing to apply for GPR/AEGD that teaches most implants and endo. I heard San antonio and VA programs are famous for implant placement.
Any other porgrams that are famous for implants???

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[PG2010]

hi, I am planing to apply for GPR/AEGD that teaches most implants and endo. I heard San antonio and VA programs are famous for implant placement.
Any other porgrams that are famous for implants???

come on there must be some good programs out there.

 

[rarm1]

come on there must be some good programs out there.

Each program is different. Many Have web sites you can check. Also ask your faculty, students from your school that got into residency programs.

Most cover both very well.

 

[helenvcard]

I am graduating from Miami Dade county research center-Community Smiles. If you want to learn something-it is great program. We have volunteers doctors coming for CE and donating their time for free for underserved community and a lot of patients. We are going to have certificate with about 70 hrs of implantology course. Besides general dentistry we have a lot of ortho, pedo, endo, perio(greatest lectures) and oral surgery. Every morning we have around 1.5. lecture and work after it. Every day we have different specialty day.

 

[PG2010]

I am graduating from Miami Dade county research center-Community Smiles. If you want to learn something-it is great program. We have volunteers doctors coming for CE and donating their time for free for underserved community and a lot of patients. We are going to have certificate with about 70 hrs of implantology course. Besides general dentistry we have a lot of ortho, pedo, endo, perio(greatest lectures) and oral surgery. Every morning we have around 1.5. lecture and work after it. Every day we have different specialty day.

thanks helenvcard, how many implants were you able to place and restore. I am interested in a program that is heavy in implants.
I want to know how difficult it is to get into a decent GPR/AEGD program. I have part I score of 93 and GPA around 3.5
thanks

 

[rarm1]

thanks helenvcard, how many implants were you able to place and restore. I am interested in a program that is heavy in implants.
I want to know how difficult it is to get into a decent GPR/AEGD program. I have part I score of 93 and GPA around 3.5
thanks

with those scores it should be easy.... but recommendations, other activities you did are important.....
most importation is the interview ... how you present yourself
what your attitude is like (are you a team player, a worker)
and your skills - especially interpersonal skills

 

[mamelons]

hi, I am planing to apply for GPR/AEGD that teaches most implants and endo. I heard San antonio and VA programs are famous for implant placement.
Any other porgrams that are famous for implants???

The VA AEGD is the way to go if you are ranked pretty high in your class. I know a guy that did the VA program who graduated from San Antonio, and he was in the top 10 in his class. The school AEGD program is pretty good, but they do take mostly San Antonio students.

As far as other programs that have implant experience, I know MCG does a lot of implants... each resident places 70-100 in a year.

 

[ou_jay]

Oklahoma AEGD has a lot of both. One of my friend's graduated the program last year. He placed 70 implants during his year. He also did several sinus lifts (both upfracture and lateral window). There is also a lot of experience in other simple dentoalveolar surgeries (perio surgeries, bone grafting, crown lengthening, impacted 3rds, etc).

The program does all its own endo. They have an endodontist come supervise the tough cases and you can do the regular cases whenever.

Each resident also does several esthetic cases and usually one or two full mouth cases.

I've asked most of the residents who graduated in the last two years if they thought it was worth it. All of them enthusiastically said yes. I start in June. I can't wait.

 

[omaralt]

i applied to two programs down here in south florida; the west palm beach VA and the University of Florida Hialeah AEGD. Got accepted at both and decided on the AEGD. The VA did not offer a lot of implants, and when speaking to the sole resident (one dropped out) she told me that she had placed 1 implant. At the AEGD residency most people had placed between 7-10 implants.

i'm not sure if all VA residency's are the same, but this one did not seem to be very good for somebody wanting to go to general dentistry. You do many rotations in anesthesia, GI (wtf?), and other non-dentally related areas. Anesthesia would be benefical, but that was the only one. also, the hours are exhausting; 7:15-5 mandatory. Your also on call one week out of every 8. However the main reason i ended up not going is because there seems to be no supervision what so ever. There are 4 dentists and 2 residents; the 4 dentists all have their own patients. so if you need any help or anything, you have to grab one of those dentists, who is also seeing their patients. they also offer no lectures/CE whatsoever

on the flip side the UF residency offers much more didactic (half the day friday is lectures), they take us to an implant CE course (where you actually place 2 implants in live patinents). Overall it seemed like a much better fit for me. i also liked the smaller private clinic atmosphere vs a big hospital.

best thing i can advise is to go to the places you want to apply to, spend the day, take one of the residents out to lunch and speak to them frankly. good luck

 

[PG2010]

thank you guys, both oklahoma and florida options seem pretty decent. I love SDN👍

 

[aphistis]

i applied to two programs down here in south florida; the west palm beach VA and the University of Florida Hialeah AEGD. Got accepted at both and decided on the AEGD. The VA did not offer a lot of implants, and when speaking to the sole resident (one dropped out) she told me that she had placed 1 implant. At the AEGD residency most people had placed between 7-10 implants.

i'm not sure if all VA residency's are the same, but this one did not seem to be very good for somebody wanting to go to general dentistry. You do many rotations in anesthesia, GI (wtf?), and other non-dentally related areas. Anesthesia would be benefical, but that was the only one. also, the hours are exhausting; 7:15-5 mandatory. Your also on call one week out of every 8. However the main reason i ended up not going is because there seems to be no supervision what so ever. There are 4 dentists and 2 residents; the 4 dentists all have their own patients. so if you need any help or anything, you have to grab one of those dentists, who is also seeing their patients. they also offer no lectures/CE whatsoever

on the flip side the UF residency offers much more didactic (half the day friday is lectures), they take us to an implant CE course (where you actually place 2 implants in live patinents). Overall it seemed like a much better fit for me. i also liked the smaller private clinic atmosphere vs a big hospital.

best thing i can advise is to go to the places you want to apply to, spend the day, take one of the residents out to lunch and speak to them frankly. good luck

Man, I can't wait to finish anesthesia this June and get back to working dentist hours. I left for work at 6:00 this morning and got home about 7:00 this evening. 7:15-5 sounds pretty good at this point. 😉

 

[omaralt]

Man, I can't wait to finish anesthesia this June and get back to working dentist hours. I left for work at 6:00 this morning and got home about 7:00 this evening. 7:15-5 sounds pretty good at this point. 😉

and thats why i didnt go to MD school 🙂

 

[drmuela]

Hi can you please tell me what type of diploma you is it from community smiles?? IS it a good program?? what is your experience you can email me at [email protected] thanks