Program Director: Ralph Epstein, DDS
This is a 36-month program beginning July 1 with four new positions offered each year. The program is a University Hospital-based certificate program. The Stony Brook University Advanced Dental Education Program in Dental Anesthesiology Program emphasizes resident training in all aspects of ambulatory and inpatient sedation and anesthesia services. During the three years of training, the resident will be a part of a comprehensive anesthesia teaching program for medical and dental anesthesia residents. The didactic and clinical training has been developed to meet all requirements of the Commission on Dental Accreditation. The overall mission of the Dental Anesthesia Residency is to train dentists in all aspects of anesthesiology in order to provide them with an appropriate foundation for the administration of anesthesia and pain control for dental patients.
The dental anesthesiology residents will begin their training with their medical colleagues at University Hospital. The initial orientation training takes place using the most advanced simulator training techniques in an ultra-modern simulator training facility. Following basic comprehensive training in University Hospital, Veterans Administration Medical Center and the Ambulatory Surgical Center, the resident will receive training at the School of Dental Medicine, providing ambulatory sedation and general anesthesia services to dental patients. This training will be enhanced by working alongside dentist anesthesiologists as they travel to private offices providing ambulatory sedation and intubated general anesthesia services to dental patients. Due to the presence of postgraduate programs in endodontics, general practice dentistry, oral and maxillofacial surgery, pediatric dentistry and periodontology, the dental anesthesia residents will train with their peers and provide sedation and anesthesia services for many different types of dental procedures.
Upon completion of the three-year program, the residents will have the competency and proficiency to provide sedation and general anesthesia, in the inpatient and office-based settings, to the general adult population along with pediatric, geriatric and patients with special needs. This program will provide a special emphasis in the treatment of patients with special needs, i.e., autistic and the developmentally disabled. The residents will also be trained to treat patients with acute and chronic pain syndromes. Because of the University’s high regard for excellence in teaching and research, the selection process will look for prospective residents who have an interest in part-time or full-time teaching at the completion of their residency program. To this end, the residents, in their third year, will help teach anesthesia and pain control to the predoctoral students, post-graduate students/residents in the following programs, i.e., endodontics, GPR, oral and maxillofacial surgery, pediatric dentistry, and periodontology. They will also assist in teaching continuing education programs to the professional community of the greater Long Island region.
Applications are processed through the PASS program and the program participates in the MATCH program for accepting residents. For additional information about this graduate program please contact:
Ralph Epstein, DDS
Program Director
Advanced Dental Education Program in Dental Anesthesiology
Room 1104 Sullivan Hall
Stony Brook University
School of Dental Medicine
Stony Brook, NY 11994-8700
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