Cincinnati Children's Hospital is a busy, tertiary care teaching hospital that emphasizes quality patient care, education and research. It services the tri-state region of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.
The pediatric dental residency program was first accredited in 1966 by the ADA Council on Dental Education. The program delivers 38,000 clinic visits, 1,400 operating room cases and after-hours emergency care each year. The patient base includes well and special needs patients. The educational philosophy is centered on case-based learning and is designed to train clinicians for private practice. Residents independently care for their own patients in a group practice environment that encourages teamwork. The clinical program is supported by a well-rounded didactic curriculum.
The first year focuses on providing comprehensive clinical care for the well child and includes extensive experience with traditional behavior management, conscious sedation and care in the operating room. First-year residents provide after-hours emergency care including oral facial trauma, laceration management and facial infections, and spend two weeks with Pediatric Medicine and Emergency Medicine
The second year is designed to increase responsibility and challenge. Each resident serves a rotation as chief resident in charge of all patient care provided in the operating room and in-house consults, spends five weeks delivering general anesthesia for the Department of Anesthesia, and provides clinical dental care emphasizing the medically, mentally and physically challenged patient. There is also a private practice rotation during the second year exposing the resident to practice management issues, as well as managing a multichair practice.
Specialty clinics in orthodontics, cleft lip and palate, esthetic dentistry, endodontics, periodontics and oral surgery are staffed by specialists in each discipline.
Cincinnati Children's Pediatric Dentistry
Get to know the class of 2012
Jennifer Fountain
Jen (AJ) is our Disney princess dentist. Half cartoon, half-human, she lulls her patients using mystical voice control (aka “valley girl talk”) and fills their cavities with sparkles and moonbeams. Parents often wonder if Jen is old enough to be a dentist, or even drive for that matter. Jen’s desk is covered in ivy, as she is a volleyball graduate of Harvard (like, who knew they had a volleyball team, right?) and a dental graduate of University of the Pacific. The thing that Jen loves most about Lisa Rudolph
Lisa (TJ) is our junior residency program director who specializes in ultra-detailed, novel-length, include-how-long-you-rinsed-the-tooth chart notes. A native of
Cara Corning
Cara (CC) is the amalgam queen. She drinks her beverages at lunch from an amalgam well. She applies blush and foundation with an amalgam carrier. She spreads peanut butter and jelly on her sandwiches with an amalgam burnisher. Cara completed her BS and DDS in
Kira is the real McCoy. Former president of Alpha Lambda Delta and Alpha Chi Omega, we are hoping that Kira’s dental career can achieve the lofty heights that she has achieved as a professional sorority politician. Add to those two stints as the chief sororititian, Kira was even awarded the supreme honor of Greek Woman of the Year in 2006. Her parents were almost as proud as when she graduated cum laude from
Danen Sjostrom
Danen, BS, MS, DDS, PhD, is our double doctor perma-student. He is the only male letter in our first year fe-mail room. Father of four, inspiration to many more, Danen was crowned Mr. Carbon County, which as you may well know, is one of Carbon county’s highest honors (it is their male version of the Miss Hawaiian Tropic contest). Danen graduated Bachelor of Science from University of Utah and then spent seven magical years at Ohio State adding multiple letters to his title and members to his family. The thing that Danen loves most about Cincinnati is the excellent cost of living (after all, it takes more than pennies to feed all those hungry mouths). Danen’s favorite dental instrument is a well designed, randomized, controlled, double-blinded, prospective clinical study (p<0.01).
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