6.68	Preventive Dental Science

For information about graduate programs in the following units: Dental Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences, or Oral Biology please refer to the table of contents for page numbers.

Orthodontics

Head and Graduate Chair: W.A. Wiltshire
General Office: D341-780 Bannatyne Avenue
Telephone: (204) 789 3628
Fax: (204) 977 5699
Email: grad_orthodontic@umanitoba.ca
Website: umanitoba.ca/dentistry/

Academic Staff

Program Information
The department offers a 3-year (minimum 35 months) Master’s program in orthodontics, fully accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation of Canada. This program provides eligibility to sit the examination of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada (RCDC) and the American Board Exams in Orthodontics (ABO). The program is intended to provide a background in the basic sciences underlying orthodontic treatment and develop a critical, independent, problem-solving approach toward clinical practice.

Graduate orthodontic students have the opportunity to treat approximately 65 new patient starts and a similar number of transfer and retention patients using a wide variety of orthodontic techniques. The strength of the clinical program is a wide range of diversity in instructor philosophies of treatment and the opportunity to learn several techniques such as full fixed modified edgewise type mechanics, sectional arch mechanics, early treatment philosophies and functional orthopaedics. In addition, a variety of surgical and cleft palate combination orthodontic surgical cases.

Graduate students also are expected to do some limited teaching in the undergraduate orthodontic clinic, present their research at an international congress, submit an article for peer-reviewed publication based on their research and orally defend their research project.

Graduates of the program over the past years have gone on to establish successful practices world-wide in such countries as Canada, U.S.A., Australia, Ireland, Columbia, Taiwan, Finland and the United Arab Emirates, amongst others.

Fields of Research
The current foci of research are in orthodontic biomaterials, adhesivity, anticariogenicity, allergenicity, fluoride release, epidemiology of malocclusion, public health orthodontics, preventive and interceptive orthodontics, clinical research in temporomandibular joint dysfunction, and the biology of tooth movement.

Research Facilities
The graduate orthodontic program offers a state-or-the-art 14 chair clinic with modern computerized diagnostic equipment and an on-site dedicated orthodontic technician. The latest addition to the research facilities is a state-of-the-art Zwick materials testing machine, in addition to the general research laboratories of the Faculty of Dentistry.

M.Sc. in Orthodontics Speciality

Admission
Admission requirements are those of the Faculty of Graduate Studies found in the Graduate Studies Regulations Section of this Calendar.

Application deadline
All application materials should be submitted to the department by September 1.

Program Requirements
Minimum Program requirements of the Faculty of Graduate Studies are found in the Graduate Studies Regulations Section of this calendar. Students must successfully complete all courses offered by the department as well as ANAT 7060, CHSC 7470, RSTD 7150, DDSS 7230. A thesis based on original research and acceptable to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and successful oral defence is also required, as well as submission of a peer-reviewed paper suitable for publication to the satisfaction of the program director.

Clinical Requirements
Students are required to treat approximately 65 new cases, a number of active transfer cases, plus approximately 80 retention cases including cleft palate and combined orthodontic-surgical patients to the satisfaction of the clinical faculty and an external examiner. The minimum full-time requirement to complete the total program is 35 months.

Second Language Reading Requirement: None

Expected Time to Graduate: minimum 35 months

Ph.D.
There is no Ph.D. Program offered in the Department of Preventive Dentistry.