McGill University, Faculty of Dentistry
About the Faculty
The Faculty of Dentistry offers undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as a General Practice Residency Program and a Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Training Program. For additional information about the programs offered by the Faculty please visit http://www.mcgill.ca/dentistry/admissions2/
Academic Opportunities
For a listing of current academic opportunities with the McGill University, Faculty of Dentistry please click here.
Community Programs
Community Outreach:
All students are involved in this program which comprises 15 mobile clinics held in the evenings at various community and social service agencies in Montreal, and 3 all-day clinics in the Undergraduate Clinic. First and second year students assist and third and fourth year students perform the treatments. The program is manned by volunteer dentists and support staff and provides free dental care for patients chosen on the basis of need by the community agencies. As part of this program, we have an “extended care” service whereby those patients seen in the mobile clinic, who require complex care beyond the capacity of mobile services, are referred to the main undergraduate dental clinic for that care. Again all this treatment is free for the patient.
Summer Clinic Program:
This is a service provided for patients with physical and/or mental handicaps in our main undergraduate clinic, by finishing third year students, during the month of July. Again, all care is provided free of charge.
Paediatric Outreach Clinic: Our fourth year students rotate through this clinic which is held at the Montreal Children’s Hospital under the supervision of paediatric dentists. This service is for children who “fall through the cracks” of Federal and Provincial government dental insurance programs, such as recent immigrants and refugees. Again, all care is provided free of charge.
Welcome Hall Mission Satellite Clinic:
This is a service provided in combination with a local charity in Montreal that provides the space and the non-clinical infrastructure and shares the operating costs. The clientele is the working poor, the elderly in poverty, itinerant groups and others in poverty. Our third and fourth year students rotate through this clinic under the supervision of a dentist.
All of these programs are designed to treat segments of the community who have barriers that prevent them from accessing conventional dental services.
The approximate breakdown of direct and indirect costs for these programs are indicated below.
Program
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Direct Costs
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Indirect Costs
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Government Support
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Comments
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Community Clinics
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$20,768
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$45,000
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0
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Additional “costs” to consider for this program are the salaries of professional volunteers (e.g. dentists, infection control nurse) if they were employed
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Summer Clinic
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$150,000
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0
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$95,000
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Paediatric Clinic
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$83,481
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$25,000
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0
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Welcome Hall Satellite
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$80,000
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0
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0
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Research
Research in the Faculty of Dentistry at McGill University (mcgill.ca/dentistry/research) covers important oral health issues at both the basic and clinical science levels.
Researchers in our Faculty perform at the highest levels of excellence, with most achieving international reputations early in their careers. They investigate a broad range of topics, and develop unique research expertise, that allows them to find ways to maintain oral health, and to discover factors leading to oral and craniofacial disease. Within the expertise at McGill, major areas of research activity provide foci of intellectual activity in the following four areas:
- Pain and the Neurosciences
- Mineralized Tissues and Extracellular Matrix Biology
- Biomaterials, Nanobiotechnology and Tissue Engineering
- Clinical and Health Services Research
McGill Directory
In cooperation with the Faculty of Dentistry, ACFD maintains a directory of the Faculty's administration and members. To view the directory please click here.
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