General PracticeGeneral Practice

Upon completion of this program, the AEGD resident should be able to:

1. Act as a primary care provider for individuals and groups of patients. This includes providing emergency and multidisciplinary comprehensive oral health care; providing patient-focused care that is coordinated by the general practitioner; directing health promotion and disease prevention activities; and using advanced dental treatment modalities.
2. Plan and provide multidisciplinary oral health care for a wide variety of patients, including patients with special needs.
3. Manage the delivery of oral health care by applying concepts of patient and practice management and quality improvement that are responsive to a dynamic health care environment.
4. Function effectively and efficiently in multiple health care environments within interdisciplinary health care teams.
5. Apply scientific principles to learning and oral health care. This includes using critical thinking, evidence or outcome-based clinical decision making and technology-based information retrieval systems.
6. Utilize the values of professional ethics, lifelong learning, patient-centered care, adaptability and acceptance of cultural diversity in professional practice.
7. Understand the oral health needs of communities and engage in community service.

• Complex restorative treatment
• Treatment of patients with special healthcare needs
• Endodontic evaluation, diagnoses and treatment
• Crown and bridge treatment planning, prep, design, fabrication and delivery
• Exposure to implant restoration and surgical placement
• Digital dentistry including, but not limited to, wax-ups, surgical guides, and 3D printing
• Prosthodontic treatment and pre-prosthetic surgery
• Periodontal diagnosis, scaling and root planing, and surgical therapy

The VCU School of Dentistry facilities are housed in the Perkinson, Dental Building 1 and Lyons buildings and contain clinical facilities, research facilities, classrooms, student laboratories, departmental offices and a computer learning laboratory. The laboratories and classrooms contain closed-circuit television receivers. The Health Sciences Library, the largest health science library in Virginia, is located across the street from the School of Dentistry.

VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital Dental Clinic is located in South Hill, Virginia.  Facilities include clinical and laboratory spaces, administrative offices, resident workspace, and educational seminar room.   

Johnson Health Center Amherst County Community Health Center Dental Clinic is an FQHC located in Madison Heights, Virginia.  Facilities include clinical and laboratory spaces, administrative offices, and resident workroom.

Program information such as infection and biohazard policies, dental radiation policies and HIPAA privacy policies can be obtained by contacting the AEGD program director.