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GENERAL PRACTICE RESIDENCY IN DENTISTRY
Rotations - Brigham and Women’s Hospital
The Brigham and Women’s Hospital is a 747- bed hospital that is listed in the top 100, if not top 10, hospitals in the country every year. It is a world renowned Harvard teaching hospital and offers training programs in nearly all medical and surgical specialties and subspecialities. This rotation emphasizes oral medicine, oral pathology, and the dental treatment of severely medically-compromised patients. The dental service has a state-of-the-art 2-chair facility that is paperless and has digital radiography. Specialists are available in oral surgery, oral medicine, and oral pathology. Residents will gain experience in:
- Evaluating and providing dental care to patients in preparation for and post cardiac surgery, bone marrow transplantation, chemotherapy, and head and neck radiation therapy.
- Diagnosis and treatment of oral soft tissue pathology and oral manifestations of systemic disease.
- Dental care of immunocompromised patients.
- Communication and collaboration with physicians and other health care professionals as part of a multi-disciplinary team in the care of outpatients and inpatients.
- Dental rehabilitation in the operating room for patients with medical or physical compromise.
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These experiences are gained from a vast number of referrals from the medical and surgical services. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, being a tertiary care hospital, treats patients with a wide variety of complex medical needs that are often affected by oral health. Residents also participate as members of the multi-disciplinary team in the Head and Neck Cancer Clinic of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Under direct supervision of an attending dentist, residents manage dental rehabilitation cases in the operating room from start to finish. Residents obtain medical histories, perform risk assessments and dental evaluations, provide dental care in the operating room, and write all orders, progress notes, post-op notes, and discharge summaries.
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