Elective seminar offered to interested DS3 students. Each week a different topic in pediatric dentistry will be covered. Students will be expected to read and discuss relevant, current, peer reviewed journal articles and to complete one final assignment.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

This course is offered to eligible students who wish to travel for one week to Trifinio, Guatemala to provide comprehensive dental care at the CU Center for Global Health's Trifinio Health Clinic. Department consent required.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

This course is designed to make the student more familiar with the normal periodontium, to supplement current surgical periodontics knowledge, and to reiterate important concepts regarding the epidemiology, etiology, and pathogenesis of periodontal disease. Requirement: Department consent required.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Typically Offered: Spring.

Provides dental students exposure to the periodontal specialty of dentistry. Provides dental students exposure to medically complex patients and how these patients are treated. It allows observation in complex treatment planning, surgical & non-surgical periodontal procedures, simple & complex extractions, & intravenous moderate sedation.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Observation, active listening, accurate description and interpretation are essential clinical skills. To develop these skills, visual and performance art provide a creative, safe and culturally diverse environment for refining these abilities. Participation in experiential and expert guided activities in galleries frame the experience.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

This course expands knowledge and skills in community-based dental care and strengthens understanding of public health issues and service. Topics to be reinforced include the importance of community engagement, service, and equity as they relate to oral health.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Typically Offered: Spring, Summer.

This course will cover many aspects of global health and oral health of low-resource populations. Topics covered are global burden of disease, global health policy, oral health for refugee and immigrant populations and ethics and sustainability related to humanitarian work.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

This course expands knowledge in the principles and practice of dental public health. Topics covered include epidemiology, health sciences research, data science, population health informatics, and a deeper exploration of vulnerable/underserved populations.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.