Naval Postgraduate Dental School

Vision

• Educate residents in their specialty area and prepare them for board certification.
• Promote the delivery of high quality dentistry by federal services dentists through continuing education.
• Support operational dental readiness and dental health through clinical practice, worldwide consultative services, and educational endeavors.
• Blend unique military experience into postgraduate dental education and produce the future leaders of the Dental Corps.

• Develop clinically proficient specialists for the Federal services.
• Prepare, support, and have all residents achieve board certification.
• Prepare dental officers to successfully manage specialty or advanced general dentistry practices in the military environment.
• Prepare residents to be academic and clinical mentors to members of the Dental Corps and dental profession.
• Promote a career-long interest in continued professional development.
• Conduct health care research projects and contribute to the professional literature.
• Prepare residents to critically review pertinent scientific literature.
• Prepare residents for leadership roles.
  

• NPDS - Naval Postgraduate Dental School
  • Location:
    • Building: 1
  • Bldg 1 is WRNMMC's historic "Tower."
  • Phone:
    • Main: (301) 295-0064
    • DSN: 295-0064
    • Continuing Education : (301) 295-0205
    • Correspondence Courses : (301) 319-4832
    • Fax: (301) 295-5767
  • Hours of Operation:
    • Monday thru Friday 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM

• Visitor Center

• DOD Dental Patient Satisfaction Survey

Links

• AEGD Program
• Dental Graduate Programs
• GPR Program
• Navy Medicine
• Naval Dental Corps

Call (301) 295-0650 for information on applying for a dental residency program.

• Dental Appl Brief Sheet
• Dental Evaluation for Advanced Dental Education

Under the command and support of the Navy Medical Manpower, Personnel, Training and Education Command, the Naval Postgraduate Dental School conducts advanced programs for dental officers that are designed to help the Dental Corps meet its need for officers who are fully qualified to practice, teach, and conduct research in dentistry. The programs are as follows:

• One-year fellowship in Maxillofacial Prosthetics
• Two-year fellowship in Orofacial Pain
• Two-year residencies in Comprehensive Dentistry, Endodontics
• Three-year residencies in Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Periodontics, Orofacial Pain, and Prosthodontics
• One-year Advanced Education in General Dentistry (AEGD-1) program

History

The Naval Dental School opened on February 3, 1923, as the Dental Department of the United States Naval Medical School, Washington, D.C. Its twofold purpose was the postgraduate instruction of officers of the Dental Corps of the US Navy and the training of hospital corpsmen to serve as dental assistants. In 1942, the newly designated National Naval Medical Center, including the Naval Dental School, was established in Bethesda, Maryland. The dental school was redesignated the Naval Graduate Dental School in 1971 and the National Naval Dental Center in 1975. In 1983, the Naval Dental Clinic, Bethesda, was established, with the Naval Dental School as a component facility. In 1989, the Naval Dental Clinic was renamed the National Naval Dental Center. In 1999, the Naval Dental School was renamed the Naval Postgraduate Dental School (NPDS). In 2004, the National Naval Dental Center was disestablished.