Department of Periodontics & Endodontics

Chair: Vincent J. Iacono, DMD

The Department of Periodontics and Endodontics includes the Divisions of Periodontics and Endodontics. They have both comprehensive didactic and clinical instruction at both the predoctoral and postdoctoral levels. The predoctoral periodontics program presents basic knowledge and skills to dental students that are essential to the prevention and treatment of diseases and conditions affecting supporting structures around teeth and their substitutes (i.e., dental implants). The educational format is through a series of lecture, seminars, demonstrations and class assignments within eleven (11) courses. Upon completion of this program, the student is capable of differentiating a healthy from diseased periodontium. A thorough knowledge of all local etiologic factors responsible for periodontal disease and methods of preventing its onset is stressed. Utilizing this knowledge and experience, the dental student is exposed to the full scope of periodontal specialty care and trained to competently evaluate, treatment plan and manage patients with gingivitis and stage I-IV periodontitis.

The predoctoral Endodontics program includes four (4) courses for the education of the dental students in the morphology, physiology and pathology of the human dental pulp and periadicular tissues. Predoctoral instruction includes the biology of the normal pulp and the etiology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases and injuries of the pulp and associated periadicular conditions. 

The postdoctoral programs are accredited by the Commission of Dental Accreditation (CODA) for the Advanced Dental Education Program in Periodontics and Endodontics. Each program leads to a certificate in its respective specialty.