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Curriculum

 

Year I

During the first year, the dental student takes primarily a series of basic science courses, including the newly developed course, Sciences basic to practice of dentistry. This offering integrates material previously found in the courses Biochemistry, Cell biology of tissues and organs, Human genetics, and Human physiology. Other courses that deal with normal human biology are Human clinical anatomy, Human development, and Neural science, as well as Epidemiology, Introduction to dentistry, Dental anatomy and occlusion, Oral histology, growth and development, and Health promotion.