General Dentistry
The Division of General Dentistry is the largest division in the Department and has 119 full, part-time and volunteer faculty. The Division is responsible for a large portion of the preventive and restorative dentistry instruction for the predoctoral students, including domestic and international students. Faculty in the Division provide instruction to the students in their first two years in preventive dentistry, dental morphology, biomaterials, fundamentals of operative and fixed restorative dentistry in an integrated curriculum using lectures, Web-based instruction and simulation. Students begin the development of their manual dexterity in an ergonomic fashion to prepare for their clinical experience starting in the Spring of the second year and continuing in full fashion in the third and fourth years in the Patient Center Care Clinics. Concurrently, they receive additional instruction via lectures and Web-based instruction. In their clinical years, students receive additional instruction in general dentistry in externship sites in a variety of locations throughout Northern California. The Division of General Dentistry strives to provide the highest quality dental care to patients with an evidence based and integrated curriculum.
Faculty
Nelson Artiga, Paul Atkinson, Gurrinder Atwal, Sheila Brear (Chair), Donald Coluzzi, Spomenka Djordjevic, Warren S Eakle, Gwen Essex, James Giblin, David Graham, J Stephen Harrington, Denley Herbert, Robert Ho, Samuel Huang, John Ino, Ernest Kahl, H David Knepshield, Oanh Le, Susan Lee, Peggy Leong, Steven Lin, Daniel Mendoza, Richard Mogensen, Sean Mong, Samir Nanjapa, Molly Newlon, Kenneth Ng, Renaldo Parisi, Krystal Pham, Antonio Ragadio, Avelino Silva, Michal Staninec, Grant Tsuji, Ram Vaderhobli, Randy Yip