WHERE YOU PRACTICE

Residents spend the majority of their time at Virtua West Jersey Hospital Camden, practicing in the Noble-Evans-Wisniewski Dental Health Center. The Dental Health Center consists of:

Five modern operatiories Reception area Conference room/Staff room Library Laboratory Darkroom Business offices

Four full-time auxiliaries and student assistants work with the dental residents. Program directors and attending dentists are generally present in the Dental Health Center for assistance and consultation, and specialists are available to aid in difficult cases. The dental department includes board-certified specialists in oral surgery, orthodontics, pediatric dentistry, endodontics and prosthodontics, and more than 40 general practitioners.

Residents treat routine emergency cases and assist oral surgeons in treating trauma cases admitted through the emergency departments in Camden and Voorhees. On-call schedules are arranged by the residents to provide emergency coverage using a beeper paging system. Residents are also responsible for answering dental consults requested by the staff physicians for in-patients at Virtua's hospitals in Berlin, Marlton and Voorhees.