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.
