Florida - Brandon Community Health Center - PEDS

This residency site is affiliated with Suncoast Community Health Centers, Inc. The pediatric dental clinic is hosted in a new state-of-the-art thirteen chair dental suite located within Brandon Community Health Center. The clinic is equipped with Adec equipment, paperless charting, 3D computed tomography, soft tissue laser, flat panel cable TV monitors in each operatory, LED lighting, digital radiography, and an additional anesthesia suite with separate recovery room.

The current faculty consists of three pediatric dentists, two orthodontists and a general dentist who oversee the community outreach program. There is greater than a 1:1 resident-to-assistant ratio.

This residency site places a large emphasis on pediatric sedation, pediatric general anesthesia, interceptive orthodontics, oral surgery, in-patient and out-patient pediatric medicine, craniofacial clinic, special patient care, community outreach, and advocacy. The site is affiliated with two local hospitals -- a level one trauma teaching facility, Tampa General Hospital, and a regional medical center, South Florida Baptist Hospital.

Residents are provided experience in moderate sedation using all modality of medication administration (nasal, intravenous, intramuscular and oral). The residents complete sedation and general anesthesia cases well beyond the number required by CODA accreditation standards. Interceptive orthodontics is supervised by our two orthodontists, thus providing a solid foundation on the practice of orthodontics preparing graduates to pursue additional training in comprehensive orthodontics.