Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency Program
Accredited by the Commission of Dental Accreditation, the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMS) Residency Program at Yale New Haven Hospital teaches residents the full scope of skills needed to practice in either a hospital or private office, including the use of all current techniques of pain and anxiety control.
Two applicants are selected each year to enter the OMS program, which is affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine. The four-year curriculum provides all the prerequisites and requirements needed to qualify for and succeed in, the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery certification process.
US News and World Report rank Yale New Haven Hospital among the best hospitals in the United States and is a level one trauma center, and regional referral center, thus providing residents with a robust clinical and academic experience.
Residents gain experience from providing a full range of ambulatory services in a modern outpatient clinic with teaching and supervision provided by a full-time Program Director, a part-time Associate Program Director, several part-time faculty as well as several faculty from community practices who teach 2-4 times monthly.
The outpatient experience at Yale New Haven Hospital’s OMS Clinic is complemented as the OMS residents work alongside general practice and pediatric dental residents under the direction of OMS faculty and GPR and Pediatric Dental faculty.
A strong and comprehensive surgical experience is gained in the operating rooms of Yale New Haven Hospital to ensure each resident receives a progressive education in both major and minor OMS.
How to Apply
All applications for positions in this residency program are made through the Postdoctoral Application Support Service (PASS) for the American Dental Association. Contact PASS for more information about the application process.
Clinical Setting
Residents perform most outpatient OMS services in Yale New Haven Hospital’s Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinic at One Long Wharf Drive in New Haven, a spacious, state-of-the-art facility that sees a wide range of patients and is fully equipped to provide the full scope of OMS ambulatory surgery and anesthesia. Patients are also referred regularly for OMS care from the General Practice and Pediatric Dental Residency Training Programs as well as from private practices in the area.
In addition, there is an OMS presence at the Pediatric Dental Center. This clinic offers a unique outpatient pediatric OMS experience which includes office-based OMS surgery, pediatric sedation, and craniofacial outpatient care to pediatric patients while creating a collaborative interdisciplinary environment.
Yale New Haven Hospital Dental Center offers OMS services to medically complex patients. Experiences include the treatment of complex patients from the Smilow Cancer Center, The Transplant Center, Heart and Vascular Center, Yale Children's Hospital, and the Trauma Center.
Curriculum
Residents provide hands-on care from the start of the program, although responsibilities are progressive and are based on skill and experience. Supervised operating experience is encouraged with the complexity of the case matching the resident's ability.
Formal teaching rounds take place in the morning followed by clinical instruction, conferences, lectures, and seminars. Afternoon work rounds are conducted by the chief resident.
While most of each of the four-year residency is spent providing inpatient and outpatient OMS care, residents gain added experience from rotations in Anesthesia (adult and pediatric), Medicine, general surgery, otolaryngology, and plastic surgery.
Didactics
- Simulated anesthesia emergencies for OMS
- Comprehensive Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology Seminars
- Oral and Maxillofacial surgery topics lecture series
- Mock oral board Practicum
- Surgical anatomy and cadaver lab for OMS
- OMS resident lecture series
Conferences
- Weekly OMS case conference
- Monthly QA conference
- Interdisciplinary dental implant conference
- Orthognathic surgery conference
- Multidisciplinary Maxillofacial trauma conference
- OMS Grand Rounds
- Department of Dentistry Grand Rounds
- Head and Neck Tumor Board
Residents will be required to identify and work on a research project and will be provided with research time and faculty during the program. During the second and fourth years of training, residents will prepare a finished paper and/or abstract for publication and presentation of a local or regional meeting as well as in-house presentation during an annual presentation.
The clinical program provides broad training in the following specialties: dentoalveolar and implant surgery, outpatient anesthesia, facial trauma, craniomaxillofacial /orthognathic reconstruction, cleft lip and palate, oral and maxillofacial pathology and reconstruction and infection management.
Faculty
Full-time Faculty
Leonard W. Skope DDS
Program Director Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Faculty
Michael P. Johnson DMD, FACS
Chief, Dentistry and Oral Maxillofacial Surgery
Michael J. Safian DDS
Associate Program Director
Course Director, OMS Resident Lecture Series
Karen S. Ablow, DMD
James Affinito, DDS
Mary Jane Anderson, MD, DMD
Simon Bangiyev, DMD
Daniela Boldikova, DMD
Paul M Ciuci, MD, DMD, FACS
Director, Yale Simulated Anesthesia Emergencies for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
Nashua Edibam, DMD
Director, Dental Implant Education
Salvatore Florio, MD, DDS
Clinical Competency Chair
Jien Heifitz-Li DMD
Course Director, Journal Club
Giovanni Ibrahim DMD
Andrew Kressley DMD
Joseph Perrone, DMD, MD
Course Director, Medical Emergency Scenarios in the OMS Clinic
David Salomon, DDS
Director of Resident Research
Arthur Wilk, DDS
Pediatric OMS Clinic
Jeffrey Eskendri, DMD
Assistant Professor Adjunct in Pathology
