Advanced Education in General Dentistry Program (AEGD)

The UTHSCSA Department of General Dentistry offers an accredited one-year Advanced Education in General Dentistry Program (AEGD). The UTHSCSA Department of General Dentistry is committed to providing excellent advanced education in general dentistry to individuals who plan to seek careers in general dentistry. In keeping with the generalist concept, the majority of patient care is supervised by General Dentistry faculty, all of whom have had one to three years of advanced education in General Dentistry in AEGD’s and/or General Practice Residencies (GPR’S).

Intensive clinical and didactic training in comprehensive care of the dental patient with complex medical issues, critical thinking, treatment planning and presentation are top priorities of our program. In addition the AEGD program provides advanced training in the dental specialties in an effort to expand the treatment repertoire practiced by our program’s graduates. Thus residents will also work and consult on a regular basis with orthodontists, periodontists, endodontists, and prosthodontists. Dental care is provided in the Advanced General Dentistry Clinic (AGDC) which is shared with our General Practice Residents.

Since didactic instruction is an important component of our residency program, three hundred and fifty hours are devoted annually to lectures, seminars, continuing education courses and other presentations that cover a wide range of advanced dental topics. The majority of this didactic instruction is concentrated during the months of July and August at the inception of the residency with additional didactic instruction remaining an important component throughout the residency year.

An optional second year of our AEGD residency is also available for interested 1st year AEGD residents. As second-year residents, more time will be spent in the AGDC providing comprehensive care to a wide variety of patients. In addition, chief residents also carry a number of teaching responsibilities for first year AEGD and GPR residents and undergraduate dental students.

For more information on the AEGD program, download the AEGD Viewbook in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

For an application to the AEGD program, download the Program Application, a Microsoft Word Document.