Shannon Parr DDS

Ms. Victoria Aguilar (Administrative Assistant)

650-493-5000 X65621

Residency Program (6 Positions Annually)

The objective of the 52 week GPR program is to provide advanced training in clinical and hospital dentistry beyond the level of predoctoral education. The program is intended to enhance the resident's ability to formulate a well planned, well sequenced treatment plan that integrates the various medical disciplines and dental specialties into the practice of advanced general dentistry. The GPR resident will receive advanced training in the recognized dental specialties and various medical services. The teaching staff consists of generalists and board eligible or certified dental specialists representing a broad spectrum of dental expertise.

The General Practice Residency Program is designed to provide the new dental graduate with clinical experience in general dentistry as practiced in a hospital setting. Dental Residents serve a one-year term at the Palo Alto Dental Clinic. Particular emphasis is placed on the dental management of patients with systemic disease and the relationship of medical disorders to oral disease and dental care. The program allows the resident to learn to work effectively with other health professionals in the hospital environment and give him or her the opportunity to refine and advance knowledge and skills in clinical dentistry.

Clinical experience and some advanced training is provided in preventive dentistry, operative dentistry, dental implants, geriatric dentistry, fixed and removable prosthodontics, periodontics, endodontics, oral surgery, and oral pathology. Consultant services are available in endodontics, orthodontics, periodontics, and pedodontics. Off service assignments include rotations to the emergency room, ENT, geriatrics, immune clinic, plastic surgery, speech pathology and audiology and anesthesiology. Formal training includes regularly scheduled consultant visits, assignments in oral surgery and prosthodontics and participation in seminars scheduled weekly. These seminars include a monthly Case Report Conference, Hospital Dentistry, Journal Club and an Oral Pathology Conference.

The General Practice Residency Program is fully accredited by the American Dental Association.

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