The Faculty Practice

The Dental Faculty Practice serves two purposes:

1. To provide dental care for those who cannot afford it.

2. To train dental students in a real-world, private practice setting.

The Institute matches individual patients with one of our dental students.  It is the only private dental practice in New York State wherein dental students may treat patients for reduced fees with the patients informed consent.  This dental work is supervised by our Faculty Dentists.  Patients do have the option of being treated solely by Faculty Dentists at our regular fees.  Sometimes more complex cases may be completed by both Faculty and students.

Patients may typically expect fee reductions of about 40%, sometimes more or less, depending upon the procedure.  The procedures available to be performed by students are limited at the discretion of the Faculty Dentists.

This program exists as a public service.  It is not associated with any managed care program.  This program offers the uninsured an attractive alternative in a quasi-academic environment.  A financial dental plan, with prearranged monthly payments, is also available for pre-qualified patients.

Our program could serve as a model to address fundamental flaws in American health care education and delivery.  It is believed that health care education should be offered to interested students in high school and college and that these students should be on a health professions fast track towards their graduate degree.  These students should be offered jobs during high school, college and medical/dental school in which they will be given increasing responsibilities in health care delivery to alleviate labor shortages and to help underserved populations.  This work-study approach would also greatly reduce the debt many students face upon graduation from medical and dental school.

Interested patients may schedule a free consultation in our office.  The number of patients and the type of cases accepted into this program are limited.  Patients who do not qualify may be referred to a local New York dental school for treatment.

To learn about our pre-dental internship program please visit:
nydentist.com/intern