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Prosthodontics 2016
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I am not applying. I am a first year resident. Good luck. Where did you applied?
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Thank you, Mackchops. How is UTHSCSA program? whats your feedback?
I've been happy here. Great reputation, great co-residents, and more patients than we know what to do with. Solid classic pros program. Strong in the fundamentals, we dabble in esthetics, surgery, and CAD/CAM - but it's very much a resident-run program so you can choose the direction you want to take your experience.
In your post above you didn't mention applying to the SA program. Is there a reason why? You're applying to Houston and Baylor. Just curious why you elected to leave us off the list.
Thank you for your feedback. good to know about SA program.
It seems that SA has a good program but whats about placing implant and lab work?
Thank you my friend so much for your time.
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Good luck everyone!
Hope your program is going well gprostho123! Looking forward to seeing you in Orlando this year 🙂
We don't place a lot of implants and we do a lot of lab work. I've heard mixed reviews about the Houston program. Baylor is supposed to be pretty good.
Thank you for your wishes. How is your program?
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Good luck and hope you hear from them soon🙂
It's going really really well! I absolutely love it. Started my 2nd year, and i have ZERO regrets about my decision to pursue prosthodontics.
(1) Like mackchops said earlier, it's a lot of lab work--but I knew that going into it.
(2) We get a good amount of surgical experience (not too much to take away from learning classic and contemporary prosthodontics).
(3) We get a good amount of experience w/ maxillofacial prosthodontics.
(3) We do a lot of digital dentistry--we have Cerec, Nobel, iTero, 3m, and just got a new Trios 3shape. We now have the ability to do digital waxups and print/mill using those waxes.
(4) All faculty are board certified and we get a lot of experience w/ board preparation (2 faculty are current board examiners--and our director is president of the ACP).
(5) Overall, the residents are great and it's a very "family" style program. Sounds really stupid, but that's prbly one of the most important things for me. I spend more time w/ my coresidents than I do w/ my own wife lol.
Not trying to brag or sound like I'm boasting. Hope I don't come off that way. Just trying to be helpful, and point out some of the things that were important for me when I was applying. Hope that helps 🙂 Good luck!
(1) Like mackchops said earlier, it's a lot of lab work--but I knew that going into it.
(2) We get a good amount of surgical experience (not too much to take away from learning classic and contemporary prosthodontics).
(3) We get a good amount of experience w/ maxillofacial prosthodontics.
(3) We do a lot of digital dentistry--we have Cerec, Nobel, iTero, 3m, and just got a new Trios 3shape. We now have the ability to do digital waxups and print/mill using those waxes.
(4) All faculty are board certified and we get a lot of experience w/ board preparation (2 faculty are current board examiners--and our director is president of the ACP).
(5) Overall, the residents are great and it's a very "family" style program. Sounds really stupid, but that's prbly one of the most important things for me. I spend more time w/ my coresidents than I do w/ my own wife lol.
Not trying to brag or sound like I'm boasting. Hope I don't come off that way. Just trying to be helpful, and point out some of the things that were important for me when I was applying. Hope that helps 🙂 Good luck!
This is so cool!. I am also prosth resident (don't want to mention school name). They said our programs are the largest prosth program in USA. Here are the summary
1. Tons of lab work. We have to saw/ditch the dies on every case we send for Fixed restoration fabrication. This is super time consuming especially for single crown case (which we have a tons as well). And it take 1-2 months to get the case back from lab even if it is single crown. (PFM crown take 2 months to fabricate; 1 month for metal coping and 1 month for porcelain...)
2. No surgical experience. They set implant surgery as some requirement but I only see a few residents did it once or twice. The perio residents here are also have problems getting enough implant cases, and now the school is opening new implant fellowship program.....
3. No maxillofacial prosthodontics. We have average 1 case (Obturator) per year for whole program and that lucky resident will be asked to document and present the case to us.
4. We have plenty of Cerec machines in the department but nobody really use it.
5. We have only 1 board certified faculty... Most of the residents now are struggling to find board cases.
6. Good thing is that all the faculty are very nice. We do have some conflicts between residents sometime though. (once it even involved police call to stop the fight)
7. Some of my classmate finished their 2nd year with 50-60 crowns experience. There is certain minimum requirement to beat but the patient pool is not really good enough to reach that requirement. We saw a lot of patient for consultation but only 15-30% really do the treatment as most of them cannot afford the fee.
8. We do have very strong research program though.
Quick question someone may have the answer to: Does anyone know the salary as a resident in prosthodontics at StonyBrook? Thank you.
It is an exciting time for us all as applicants. All the best to those who have applied for prosth this year and the residents currently in programs.
It is an exciting time for us all as applicants. All the best to those who have applied for prosth this year and the residents currently in programs.
Not stupid at all! Don't underestimate the importance of a strong class of coresidents. You spend more time with them and learn more from them than you do with anyone else (including faculty) so making sure everyone gets along at your interview is tremendously important.
Have you?
I already interviewed at Minnesota. Haven't heard from the others yet.
Thank you buddy for your feedback. Its to good to hear all the good stuff about your program, it seems like a heaven. Where are you? what school ?
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Sorry to hear that my friend, I hope things get better soon. Is there any advice or questions to ask when we are doing interviews? Your thoughts are highly appreciate it.
Hello nabcool,
So far, I got from UIC, Baylor, UT Houston, UTHSC, Rochester.
Whats about you? where did you apply? any interview call?
Hello Big_G
How was your interview? I hope it was good. hopefully your hear your acceptance soon. Good luck
Hello Prosthodont,
How are you? I hope all is well.
Where did you apply? and interview call?
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I don't honestly know, I had arrived from overseas the night before and was severely jet lagged. I think I did an ok wax up and I got on well (I think) with the residents. How about you, have you heard anything?
Nice. I applied to very few. Got from Baylor, so far.
Good luck with Minnesota and others.
Hi prosthodonts,
Any advice for those who appearing for interviews? Any feedback will be much appreciated.
Great, and good luck with Baylor. Where else did you apply?
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SA and Alabama too. See you at Baylor and good luck for August 14th.
Good luck to you too my friend and see you at Baylor.
Hi dmd12, sorry i forgot to mention where my program was even lol. Sorry for the delay, I don't mind at all sharing where I'm currently training or anything.
I'm at the University of Maryland. It's in downtown Baltimore, MD. Not a great area, but then again I don't live near the school and I don't really feel unsafe at all coming to and/or leaving from the school. I didn't do my undergrad here, I trained at MWU-AZ. So, it's a big change from sunny Glendale, AZ 🙂
Please feel free to post any questions or if I can be of any help to you all!
It's great that we have this type of forum. And thanks to all the current residents and @Mackchops for all your input. I know it really helped me when applying, and I hope we can all be of the same service for you guys!
You're absolutely right @Mackchops, your coresidents are a huge source of learning. The other day my coresidents and I were talking about how much (or little) we knew coming into the program, and how much we've grown through this together. It really is amazing how little you know before starting prosth (even if you think/thought u knew a lot already)! And like one of my attendings always says, "you can never unlearn what you learn in residency." It's definitely both a gift and a curse 🙂 But no regrets here! Seems to be about the same sentiment from other residents at other programs around the country, too.
Hi guys! I am a little late to the thread, but I applied to pros this summer too. I applied to Buffalo, UCONN, UNC, Florida, Baylor, UCLA, and UCSF.
I interviewed at UCONN and Minnesota earlier in August.
I go to Baylor Aug. 24, UCLA Aug. 26, UCSF Aug. 31, and UF Sept. 11.
Do you guys know anything about UCSF or UCLA?
I interviewed at UCONN and Minnesota earlier in August.
I go to Baylor Aug. 24, UCLA Aug. 26, UCSF Aug. 31, and UF Sept. 11.
Do you guys know anything about UCSF or UCLA?
Good luck treatyoself43 with coming interviews. wish you all the best.
Not sure about Michigan, I didn't apply there.
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I didn't apply to San Antonio, but a friend of mine did and she interviewed a while ago there. Sorry that isn't too helpful, but I cannot recall the exact date!
I am doing the GPR at Iowa right now and I know they interviewed on 8/24/15. But maybe they have another round of interviews??? I am not sure because I did not apply to Iowa either. From what I have been told about Iowa though, you do not want to go there for pros. They do not have big cases, there are not enough implants to place. My roommate is in the oral surgery program at Iowa and the residents in that program only place 50-100 implants. I would not recommend Iowa, especially if you enjoy living in large cities, Iowa City is very small!!!!!
I am doing the GPR at Iowa right now and I know they interviewed on 8/24/15. But maybe they have another round of interviews??? I am not sure because I did not apply to Iowa either. From what I have been told about Iowa though, you do not want to go there for pros. They do not have big cases, there are not enough implants to place. My roommate is in the oral surgery program at Iowa and the residents in that program only place 50-100 implants. I would not recommend Iowa, especially if you enjoy living in large cities, Iowa City is very small!!!!!
