DENH 1280 - Oral Embryology and Histology

The course provides the dental hygiene student with a conceptual framework for understanding the growth and development of oral structures as well as an overview of the peri-natal events that begin their growth. Microscopic structures of the oral tissues, growth and development of the face and oral cavity will be studied to reinforce lecture topics. A detailed study of the development of the deciduous and permanent dentition is presented along with the common developmental disturbances and anomalies that sometimes occur during the complex pattern of growth and development.
30 lecture hours.
2 credit hours
This course is only available to students who have been accepted into a Rutgers program. For the most current course description visit http://shrp.rutgers.edu