The Advanced Education Program in Prosthodontics is committed to educating and mentoring dentists who will become future leaders in the specialty of Prosthodontics. The program aims to provide an innovative, continuously evolving curriculum to develop students’ clinical decision-making and technical skills for treating highly complex prosthodontic needs. Our objective is to train expert clinicians with a sense of ethical responsibility and professionalism. The program strives to achieve these goals through the implementation of new advanced clinical practices and technologies in the field.
The Advanced Education Program in Prosthodontics is a three-year program that fulfills all educational requirements set of the Council on Dental Education of the American Dental Association and the American Board of Prosthodontics.
Program Strengths
The program offers an unparalleled and extensive range of clinical experiences distinctive to our institution, shaped by a diverse patient population, a robust didactic curriculum, and exceptional clinical faculty. Additionally, the educational foundation is enriched with various research opportunities.
Extensive Clinical Experience: Supported by over 10,000 prosthodontic patient visits annually and more than 300,000 total patient visits across NYU Dentistry, providing a robust referral base and unparalleled interdisciplinary care opportunities.
World-Renowned, Multifaceted Faculty: The largest concentration of board-certified prosthodontists in the country, including faculty with dual and triple specialties in maxillofacial prosthetics, implant surgery, and related disciplines, alongside master dental laboratory technologists.
Distinguished Implant Surgical Training: The longest-standing implant surgical education program among U.S. dental schools, fulfilling all CODA requirements and delivered by formally trained prosthodontic surgeons, oral and maxillofacial surgeons, and periodontists.
Comprehensive Digital Dentistry Integration: A three-year curriculum integrating advanced digital workflows, CAD/CAM technologies, intraoral scanners, and 3D printing for complex prosthodontic treatment planning and execution.
Direct Collaboration with Master Technicians: Close mentorship with master dental technicians in both clinical and laboratory settings to develop advanced technical precision and laboratory communication skills.
Strong Interdisciplinary Integration: Structured collaboration with all dental specialties through multidisciplinary seminars and coordinated care for complex congenital conditions, post-oncologic rehabilitation, trauma cases, and interceptive prosthodontics.
Special Needs and Medically Complex Care Training: Integrated clinical rotation within the Oral Health Center for People with Disabilities, providing one-on-one faculty-guided experience in managing patients with special healthcare needs.
Academic, Scholarly, and Leadership Development: Robust clinical, didactic, and research opportunities; formal training in pedagogy; strong support for American Board of Prosthodontics certification; and mentorship encouraging careers in academic and leadership roles grounded in ethical, patient-centered care.
Eligibility for Licensure
Completing the CODA-accredited Advanced Education Program in Prosthodontics satisfies the training requirements for eligibility for the American Board of Prosthodontics board certification process. Eligibility for dental licensure is based on pre-professional, professional, and post-graduate training and varies by state and jurisdiction. Candidates should check the state and jurisdiction regulations for dental licensure in the state(s)/jurisdictions(s) in which they seek licensure to ensure that they comply with all requirements.
Accreditation
The Advanced Education Program in Prosthodontics is accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation and has been granted the accreditation status of “approval without reporting requirements.” The Commission is a specialized accrediting body recognized by the United States Department of Education.
The Commission on Dental Accreditation can be contacted at (312) 440-4653 or at:
Commission on Dental Accreditation 211 East Chicago Avenue Chicago, IL 60611
At this time, NYU Dentistry is not offering individual educational visits. Individuals interested in learning more about our PG Information Sessions should contact dental.pgadmissions@nyu.edu.
The Advanced Education Program in Prosthodontics may offer occasional group visit opportunities. For additional information, interested individuals should contact dental.pros.observe@nyu.edu
Approximately 25% of the overall program time is allocated to didactic components. The emphasis is on gaining a critical and analytical attitude toward existing and new information, with evidence-based dentistry serving as an integral component. The courses are a combination of advanced core basic sciences, multidisciplinary conferences and seminars, and specialty-specific courses.
Clinical Program
Clinical training constitutes 60% of the program's time. The Prosthodontics clinic has an extensive and diverse patient population. PG students function as members of an interdisciplinary team and become proficient in diagnosing, treating, and maintaining a variety of prosthodontic needs. The program is committed to excellence in patient care, providing prosthodontic treatments with a multidisciplinary approach, when needed, and utilizing high-quality laboratories.
Research Program
All PG students are required to complete an approved research project, which requires them to demonstrate their understanding of the scientific process, including data collection, statistical analysis, and presentation in a scientific forum. Additionally, students are required to attend several scientific and specialty-related meetings and present at least one Table Clinic at a professional meeting. The Research Program comprises of 5% of the program time.
Teaching Program
Approximately 5% of the program time is dedicated to teaching, where students teach predoctoral dental students as part of their graduate education.
Upon successful completion of the program, graduates will:
Prepare and present diagnostic data, treatment plans, and patient treatment outcomes.
Create treatment plans for clinical predictability based on patient and restoration factors.
Apply principles related to caries risk assessment and intervention.
Manage and treat a wide scope of complex clinical conditions for edentulous, partially edentulous, and dentate patients.
Manage and treat patients with clinical conditions at a level beyond experiences at the predoctoral dental education level.
Provide prosthodontic therapy to a wide range of patients with esthetic and functional needs beyond the scope of general dentistry, including those with varying degrees of cognitive and physical impairment.
Apply principles associated with fixed prosthodontics, removable prosthodontics and implants, esthetic dentistry, and digital dentistry as members of a treatment team.
Evaluate and use existing and newly introduced technologies to replace teeth and their associated structures using biologically active and passive therapies for fixed and removable prosthodontic treatment. These include experiences beyond those learned at the predoctoral level and the use of natural teeth and dental implants as part of the treatment.
Apply evidence-based health care principles.
Identify, appraise, apply and communicate best evidence as it relates to health care and clinical and translational research, including how such research is conducted, evaluated, applied and communicated to patients and health care providers.
Utilize principles of ethical decision-making pertaining to academic, research, patient care and practice environments.
Use existing and newly introduced technologies and apply principles of esthetic dentistry to restore existing teeth and replace missing teeth and their associated structures. These experiences go beyond those learned at the predoctoral level, with natural teeth and dental implants used as part of the treatment.
Carry out placement and restoration of dental implants, including referral.
Replace missing teeth and the associated oral and maxillofacial tissues with biocompatible substitutes. This is a core component of Prosthodontics and its definition, and these experiences should demonstrate the student’s/resident’s role in assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, implementation of prosthetic rehabilitation, and referral.
Lead and coordinate oral health care with other members of the health care team.
Plan, evaluate, and provide direction for patient treatment in consultation with other health care providers as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Perform laboratory procedures in the treatment of edentulous, partially edentulous and dentate patients.
Direct laboratory technicians supporting treatment at the advanced prosthodontic level.
Select and apply biomaterials, recognizing the esthetic, biomechanical, and biocompatibility implications of prosthodontic therapies.
Recognize signs and symptoms associated with temporomandibular disorders and/or orofacial pain and either provide appropriate treatment or refer, consistent with contemporary practice and the best interest of the patient.
Have experience with patients requiring maxillofacial prosthetic care.
Present papers or posters at educational meetings outside of the sponsoring institution.
Complete a research project (basic science or clinical) with mentoring.
Submit an article for publication in a peer reviewed journal.