Orofacial Pain Certificate

The Graduate Certificate in Orofacial Pain is a 42-credit hour program designed to meet the needs of the dental practitioner interested in practicing the management of orofacial pain. The dental profession has recently recognized the field of orofacial pain as a dental specialty that requires clinicians to gain specialty status in orofacial pain. The two-year certificate program will meet the criteria for board eligibility for orofacial pain specialty. This certificate is designed as a complement to the MS in Orofacial Pain, where the difference the proposed certificate program and the already established MS Dentistry’s concentration in Orofacial Pain is a research component.

The curriculum of this Post-Masters Certificate Program is designed to provide advanced clinical training and evidence-based didactic enhanced knowledge in the treatment of orofacial pain. The hours requested are necessary to provide instruction to mee the needs of the US Education’s Council on Dental Accreditation (CODA) standards. Review of the other US academic programs require approximately the same credit hours to meet CODA standards.