ORD 555 Pre-Doctoral Lab Instruction

Credits: 1
This one term laboratory course utilizes the first year orthodontic post-doctoral students to teach the second year pre-doctoral students how to fabricate several common fixed and removable appliances. The residents help the course director in teaching the dental students the skills necessary to make band and loop space maintainers, lower lingual holding arches, fixed W-arches, removable anterior crossbite appliances, and Hawley retainers. This course helps build the orthodontic residents’ laboratory skills and develop communication skills necessary for working with their dental colleagues.

Graded: A-F
May be taken only once for credit