New curriculum piloted

Students at the School of Dentistry will start taking advantage of experiential learning opportunities earlier in their education than at most other dental schools.

As part of the dentistry school's overall goal to give students a breadth and diversity of educational experiences in clinical, research and community dentistry, the school's education committee has approved a pilot program in which students start to work with patients in the student dental clinics in their second year of training.
Traditionally at Case and other dental schools around the country, they wait until their
junior year.

The pilot also streamlines the regular 32 weeks of dental education into six weeks of three sessions per week. Ten students from more than half of the class of 70 first-year students have volunteered to pilot the summer educational program.

Faculty practice expands

The University Dental Practice Associates at Case-the dentistry faculty's private dental practice on campus-has expanded services with the addition of three new faculty dentists.

Joining the group practice are Judith Ablaza and Jose Arauz-Dutari, both periodontists, and Santiago Moncayo, a general dentist.

Each faculty practice dentist works one day during the dental office's hours, which are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. The office accepts the dental insurance plans of DenteMax and DeltaDental, which also is the dental provider for some Kaiser Permanente health plans.

Other members of the faculty dental practice are Fady Faddoul and Hussein Assaf, general dentistry; Angela Graves and Sahar Bajoury, prosthodontics; Sami Chogle, endodontics; and Manish Valiathan and Martin Palomo, orthodontics. Hygienist Marna McGuire and dental assistants Katherine Blackley and Erin Soukup also are part of the practice.

For appointments, call 368-0592.

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