Dental Students
Selective Description:
The Infant Oral Health Selective will provide 3rd and 4th year dental students the opportunity to gain additional pediatric clinical experience in a community health setting with infant and toddlers specifically. Students will be working ½ day once a week for a quarter under the direction of a pediatric dentistry faculty member in providing dental care to infants and toddlers aged 0 to 5 years, who are participants at Simms Mann Health and Wellness Center.
Objectives:
Dental Student Role:
Dental students will assist and gain proficiency in:
Prerequisites & Requirements:
The following are prerequisites and requirements to participate in the Infant Oral Health Selective:
1) You must have completed with a passing grade or be currently enrolled in good standing in the following:
a. RFFE Pediatric Dentistry
b. GDA 200 Infancy to Adolescence
2) Read and review the following articles on Caries Management Risk Assessment.
a. Pediatric Dental Care: Prevention and Management Protocols Based on Caries Risk Assessment
b. Into the Future: Keeping Healthy Teeth Caries Free: Pediatric CAMBRA Protocols
c. Caries Management by Risk Assessment – A Practitioner’s Guide
d. First Smiles: Dental Health Begins at Birth
3) Read and review the “Oral Health During Pregnancy and Early Childhood: Evidence-Based Guidelines for Health Professionals”
4) Complete online course through the CDA/First 5 organization’s First Smiles Treating Young Kids Everyday (TYKE) Training Course. Save Certificate of Completion PDF. (Sample)
5) Obtain permission in writing from your Group Practice Director to be allowed to participate in the Infant Oral Health Clinic. This can either be to us from your GPD or submitted in person as a brief letter.
6) Complete Block Schedule Form. This form is used to validate that you have no interference with other rotations schedules. Students will be selected based on their quarter of choice and availability in order to minimize clinic sessions missed due to other mandatory rotations.
7) Resume/CV
Collect all the following items and submit ONE email to Selective Coordinator: vsmedina@dentistry.ucla.edu
1) Permission in writing from your Group Practice Director to be allowed to participate in the Infant Oral Health Clinic. This can either be to us from your GPD or submitted in person as a brief letter.
2) Block Schedule Form
3) Resume/CV
4) CDA First 5, Treating Young Kids Everyday (TYKE) certificate of completion AND Screenshot of Final assessment results.
After submitting a completed application via email, your application will be reviewed.
After selective acceptance, you will be contacted by the IOCP clinic coordinator via email.
Additional Information:
By the conclusion of the 10 week program, students should be able to:
The Infant Oral Health Selective will provide 3rd and 4th year dental students the opportunity to gain additional pediatric clinical experience in a community health setting with infant and toddlers specifically. Students will be working ½ day once a week for a quarter under the direction of a pediatric dentistry faculty member in providing dental care to infants and toddlers aged 0 to 5 years, who are participants at Simms Mann Health and Wellness Center.
Objectives:
- To offer dental students practice in working with the youngest population of pediatric patients to gain more in-depth pediatric experience.
- To give dental students more access to patients in a community health setting.
- To provide dental students the opportunity to test and implement strategies to integrate pediatric dentistry with their medical pediatric cohorts.
Dental Student Role:
Dental students will assist and gain proficiency in:
- Assessing caries risk through the use of the CAMBRA tool and clinical exam results.
- Examining, diagnosing, and treating very young children.
- Working in a community based clinical environment.
- Understanding the barriers to access in care for lower income families.
- Delivering perinatal and infant/toddler oral health education.
- Understanding how to integrate infant oral care in with the standard care delivered by pediatricians.
Prerequisites & Requirements:
The following are prerequisites and requirements to participate in the Infant Oral Health Selective:
1) You must have completed with a passing grade or be currently enrolled in good standing in the following:
a. RFFE Pediatric Dentistry
b. GDA 200 Infancy to Adolescence
2) Read and review the following articles on Caries Management Risk Assessment.
a. Pediatric Dental Care: Prevention and Management Protocols Based on Caries Risk Assessment
b. Into the Future: Keeping Healthy Teeth Caries Free: Pediatric CAMBRA Protocols
c. Caries Management by Risk Assessment – A Practitioner’s Guide
d. First Smiles: Dental Health Begins at Birth
3) Read and review the “Oral Health During Pregnancy and Early Childhood: Evidence-Based Guidelines for Health Professionals”
4) Complete online course through the CDA/First 5 organization’s First Smiles Treating Young Kids Everyday (TYKE) Training Course. Save Certificate of Completion PDF. (Sample)
5) Obtain permission in writing from your Group Practice Director to be allowed to participate in the Infant Oral Health Clinic. This can either be to us from your GPD or submitted in person as a brief letter.
6) Complete Block Schedule Form. This form is used to validate that you have no interference with other rotations schedules. Students will be selected based on their quarter of choice and availability in order to minimize clinic sessions missed due to other mandatory rotations.
7) Resume/CV
Collect all the following items and submit ONE email to Selective Coordinator: vsmedina@dentistry.ucla.edu
1) Permission in writing from your Group Practice Director to be allowed to participate in the Infant Oral Health Clinic. This can either be to us from your GPD or submitted in person as a brief letter.
2) Block Schedule Form
3) Resume/CV
4) CDA First 5, Treating Young Kids Everyday (TYKE) certificate of completion AND Screenshot of Final assessment results.
After submitting a completed application via email, your application will be reviewed.
After selective acceptance, you will be contacted by the IOCP clinic coordinator via email.
Additional Information:
- The following briefly outlines the impact of this rotation on third and four year students’ time in the general clinic. Each student chosen to rotate through the selective will miss one half day a week for a quarter. This equates to ten total clinic sessions out of ninety per quarter.
- Only third or fourth year dental students and pediatric residents are eligible to participate in this rotation.
- Students will be selected based on their availability, their interest in pediatric dentistry, and their leadership activities. If chosen, students may only participate if they have no other conflicts with previously assigned rotations.
- The Infant Oral Care Selective is not a substitute for the Venice Rotation nor is it a substitute for the Pediatric Rotation at the Inglewood clinic. This program is an adjunct rotation that will provide further exposure to pediatric dentistry for very young children in a community health setting.
- All students chosen in this selective will be allowed to participate under the discretion of the GPD.
- All students selected for this program will be required to have completed steps 1-6 above.
By the conclusion of the 10 week program, students should be able to:
- Understand why pregnancy provides a unique opportunity to provide oral health interventions for women and their infants.
- Realize the impact of maternal oral health on the longer-term oral disease status in families.
- Know the background and clinical evidence in support of perinatal and infant oral care.
- Be able to perform a caries risk assessment through the use of the CAMBRA tool for 0-5 and clinical exam results in a private practice or in a community based clinical environment.
- Identify the dental products available for patient interventions and develop a treatment care path to manage dental caries for any patient based upon CAMBRA risk assessment protocols.
- Understand the benefits and challenges in creating buy-in from dental team members, and the influence of third party payers on patient acceptance.
- Learn to examine, diagnose, and treat very young children using an Infant Oral Care model
- Comprehend the barriers to access in care for lower income families,
- Deliver perinatal and infant/toddler oral health prevention and education, and
- Be able to offer dental practitioners information on a dental practice model in working with the youngest population of pediatric patients and to gain more in depth pediatric dental experience.