UFCD Hialeah Dental Clinic - Advanced Education in General Dentistry Program
Oral Health Care Services
Opened in 1997, the Hialeah Dental Clinic averages 200 patients weekly. The majority of the patients in the clinic are adults requiring comprehensive oral health care; the remainder of the patient base consists of children and senior citizens. Residents and students enrolled at the clinic are actively engaged in providing all phases of dentistry, including:
- Diagnostic and preventive services
- Endodontics
- Periodontics
- Oral and maxillofacial surgery
- Restorative dentistry (including operative, fixed and removable prosthodontics and implant dentistry)
- Orthodontics
- Pediatric dentistry
If you are interested in becoming a patient, call 305.694.5400 for more information.
Patient Population
The Hialeah Dental Clinic handles more than 5,000 patient visits a year. These include insured, uninsured and Medicaid patients. The age distribution of the patients is 13% children, 80% adults, and 7% senior citizens.
Dental Facilities
The spacious 7,500 square foot dental facility has:
- Twenty dental operatories, twelve of which are dedicated to resident and student patient care activities
- On-site radiology and digital radiography services
- Dental laboratory
- Complete sterilization area
- Global surgical microscope with monitor for teaching purposes
- Digital photographic equipment
- Rotary endodontic equipment
- NobelBiocare
- Straumann and Biohorizons implant systems
- Hu-Friedy cassette instrument systems
- Kavo handpieces for use during the program
- Library with Web access
- Ample study areas
- Administrative office space
- Conference room enhanced with interactive distance learning technology to enhance the educational program
