This position is only available to AEGD residents of NYU Langone Dental Medicine, assigned to the La Clinica de la Raza program site.
NYU Langone Dental Medicine
- AEGD Residency at La Clinica de la Raza -
You can learn more about La Clinica at: https://laclinica.org/about/
LA CLINICA DE LA RAZA DENTAL DEPARTMENT
At La Clínica de la Raza (LCDLR), we believe access to dental care is a key component of primary health
services. In most cases, tooth decay and gum disease can be prevented with proper care and treatment.
Unfortunately, many low-income families do not have health coverage for dental care nor the means to
pay for it. To fill this gap in services, La Clínica provides low-cost preventive and general dental services
to the community.
PHILOSOPHY OF DENTAL OPERATIONS
The philosophy of La Clínica Dental Operations is to:
• Provide culturally appropriate preventive care, patient education, and basic general dental care
to the most community members feasible, while maintaining the highest standards of quality,
evidenced-based practices, and ethics.
• Assure that all patients receive safe, efficient, timely, and appropriate care that is subject to
continuous quality improvement practices.
• Assure that all patients being treated for the same oral problems receive the same level or quality
of care.
• Maintain a high level of professional performance of providers authorized to practice in the
clinics through continuous quality improvement practices and appropriate delineation of clinical
privileges.
• Provide education and training in affiliation with established programs and assure that education standards are maintained.
• Initiate and maintain an active and continuous quality improvement program addressing all aspects of dental practice.
SCOPE OF PRACTICE
La Clínica Dental Department provides basic preventive and general dental care to patients of all ages.
The primary focus of service is on Phase I care which consists of emergency services, examination and diagnosis, patient education, hygiene and preventive services, general direct restorative services, routine and surgical exodontia, routine endodontia, removable prosthodontic appliances to replace anterior teeth (i.e., stayplate), and referral to specialty services.
Phase II care may be conducted if clinic and patient resources permit to do so. Phase II care includes cosmetic services, endodontic retreats, removable prosthodontics, oral conscious sedation and hospital dentistry, orthodontics, fixed single and multi-unit prosthodontics, and implant services.
La Clínica Dental Department scope of care does not include: opening vertical dimension via fixed prosthodontics, complicated endodontic retreatments or endodontic surgeries, complicated extractions or oral surgery, or IV sedation.
