Department of Preventive and Restorative Sciences: Division of Pediatric and Community Oral Health

Programs

The following programs are ongoing within the Division of Pediatric and Community Oral Health:

Oral Health Outreach Program (OHOP)
Penn Dental Medicine provides oral health educational programs with social service agencies serving clients with HIV/AIDS in greater Philadelphia region.  Funded by a grant from the City of Philadelphia's Aids Activities Coordinating Office, faculty members, staff and students visit 35 agencies each year and work with over 500 clients yearly to provide education, screening and dental referral services.  Clients are referred back to Penn Dental Medicine's Center for Medically Complex Patients in the Shattner Center to receive needed dental care.

STEP Program
The Short Term Enrichment Program (STEP) is geared towards the recruitment of minority and underserved high school students from the Philadelphia area. The numbers of participants is steadily rising year by year as the School continues to network with school principals and guidance counselors.

PennSmiles
Penn Dental Medicine brings healthy smiles to children throughout the West Philadelphia community through PennSmiles, an oral health outreach program that travels to area schools, Head Start programs, and other neighborhood sites. Through classroom instruction and the use of the PennSmiles mobile dental van, faculty and students of the School of Dental Medicine provide oral health education, dental screenings, referrals for dental care, and dental treatment.

Pediatric Dentistry Graduate Program
Penn Dental Medicine, in affiliation with The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, offers a two-year residency training program in Pediatric Dentistry. The goal of the program is to prepare Pediatric Dentists who are proficient in providing primary and comprehensive preventive and therapeutic care for infants and children through adolescence, including those with special needs.

Department of Preventive and Restorative Sciences
Robert Schattner Center
University of Pennsylvania
School of Dental Medicine
240 South 40th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-898-4971