Dentistry

Dentistry

The goal of the School is to educate and train professionally competent dentists who can serve for the nation's oral health care needs in keeping with the dental care profession's ethical code. The School has set specific objectives that guide the School's educational programs. In particular, the prospective dental professionals should: (1) have a good understanding of the basic science principles related to dentistry and be able to apply their knowledge to solving clinical problems; (2) have acquired fundamental knowledge and skills for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of oral disease; (3) be willing to serve for solving the oral health problems of their communities; (4) have acquired the attitude of continuing upgrading professional competency through self-evaluation of professional maturity; and finally (5) keep up with a professional code of conduct with a sense of duty, responsibility, and ethics.

Division of Biological Sciences

All applicants for admission to the School should have completed a two-year pre-dental studies program in the College of Natural Sciences. The professional program leading to the D.D.S. (Doctor of Dental Surgery) degree and to the qualification of professional certification is a four-year program with 32 months of actual attendance required. In the first year in the Departmental program, the dental students are required to carry on the intensive course work of basic science courses, such as morphology, dental materials, anatomy, histology, physiology, biochemistry, and microbiology. In the second year, the program requires the students to get one semester course work on basic science courses, which is the continuation of the first year, including such as oral microbiology, dental pharmacology, and oral pathology.

The pre-clinical laboratories and didactic technical courses are mainly offered to the second-year students. In the third year, the program emphasizes the preparation of skills needed for dental practice through learning clinical dental science courses, such as oral medicine, oral and maxillofacial radiology, pediatric dentistry, oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthodontics, periodontology, conservative dentistry, prosthodontics. In the last and fourth year, students spend most of their time in the clinic, and also comprehensive patient care is emphasized. The D.D.S. degree is conferred on to those students who have successfully completed four years of departmental and school programs. They must pass a comprehensive graduation examination successfully, and also must pass the National Board Examination in order to obtain a license to practice dentistry in the country.

 

Faculty

Professor
	Baik, Byeong Ju	Ph.D.	Pediatric Dentistry
	Chang, Kee Wan	Ph.D.	Preventive Dentistry
	Jhee, Eun Chung	Ph.D.	Cancer & Detoxifying Enzyme
	Jin, Woo Jeong	Ph.D.	Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
	Kim, Hyung Seop	Ph.D.	Peroodontics
	Kim, Oh Hwan	Ph.D.	Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
	Koh, Kwang Joon	Ph.D.	Radiosensitivity & Chemosensitivity, Digital Image
	Lee, Jun Rae	Ph.D.	Anesthesiology (Dental Anesthesia)
	Park, Charn Woon	Ph.D.	Prosthodontics
	Shin, Hyo Keun	Ph.D.	Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
	Shin, Keum Back	Ph.D.	Plant Cell & Developmental Biology
	Song, Kwang Yeob	Ph.D.	Prosthodontics
Associate Professor
	Bae, Tae Sung	Ph.D.	Dental Materials
	Cho, Nam Pyo	Ph.D.	Oral Pathology
	Park, Byung Keon	Ph.D.	Oral Anatomy & Histology
Assistant Professor
	Ahn, Seung Geun	Ph.D.	Prosthodontics
	Cho, Eui Sic	Ph.D.	Oral Histology
	Kim, Jae Gon	Ph.D.	Pediatric Dentistry
	Kim, Jong Ghee	Ph.D.	Orthodontics, Orthodontic Biomechanics
	Ko, Seung O	Ph.D.	Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
	Lee, Hye Kyung	Ph.D.	Dental Pharmacology
	Lee, Kwang Won	Ph.D.	Operative Dentistry
	Park, Soo Joung	Ph.D.	Craniofacial Pain
	Song, Yo Han	Ph.D.	Dental Caries
Full-time Lecturer
	Park, Ju Mi	Ph.D.	Prosthodontics
	Shu, Bong Jik	Ph.D.	Oral Medicine