As Wisconsin's only dental school, we offer you the most advanced clinical resources and instructional technology available. Every step you take in our program will be guided by faculty and practicing professionals who uphold Marquette's vision: to train highly-skilled oral health care practitioners to bring top-quality dental care to urban and rural communities across the country and around the world. Well prepare you to enter practice immediately upon graduation. Our program blends the knowledge and skills of basic, clinical and behavioral sciences to prepare our student as competent, contemporary dentists. Youll be immersed in a model of education that mimics dental practice.Youll be challenged in a different way to prepare you for what life will be like post-graduation. Our faculty and staff will help you manage the demands of this rigorous academic program (and have some fun, too).<br><br>The periodontal program is a three-year program. A student in the periodontics program must complete a minimum of 50 credit hours of course work, including 12 credit hours of clinical practice and six credit hours of thesis work. The remaining credits will be from courses assigned by the course director which are specific to periodontology. The periodontics program requires three full years of direct patient care. Satisfactory completion of the didactic and clinical components of the program results in specialty certification through the Marquette University Graduate School. Satisfactory completion of the research component of the program results in a master's degree through the Marquette University Graduate School.<br><br>Master of science degree applicants may only be admitted to the program under Plan A, which has two options: the traditional thesis option and the publication option. In partial fulfillment of the requirements to obtain the master of science degree, all candidates must complete the appropriate sections of the graduate core curriculum with a grade of B- or above, conduct a research project on an appropriate clinical or basic science topic, and successfully defend their research project. Format and content of the public defense is determined by the advisory committee.<br><br>Candidates are encouraged to pursue research that originates in their chosen dental specialty. Research projects are selected in consultation with the graduate program director. Where possible, graduate students in advanced dental specialty programs are encouraged to do clinically relevant research.