Dentistry

The department currently consists of the Department of Stomatology (Jixi Road Outpatient Clinic, Changjiang Road Outpatient Clinic, and High-Tech Zone Outpatient Clinic) and the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Ward. Actual number of open beds (beds): 50. Comprehensive dental treatment units (units): 46. Our department is the earliest-established clinical department of stomatology in the entire province, one of the first authorized sites in Anhui Province to confer master’s degrees in clinical stomatology, and a national standardized residency training base covering all dental categories (General Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Orthodontics, Prosthodontics, Oral Medicine, Dental Radiology, and Oral Pathology). Since 2016, it has been designated as Anhui Province’s only examination base for the “National Dental Practitioner Clinical Practice Skills Examination and Examiner Training Base.” In 2014, it successfully applied to become a national residency training base, becoming Anhui Province’s first national residency training base, and ultimately obtained all 7 national-level bases for the dental categories. (General Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Orthodontics, Prosthodontics, Oral Medicine, Dental Radiology, and Oral Pathology).

With the approval of the Provincial Health Department, the Provincial Oral Health Center was established and affiliated with the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University. The Department of Stomatology undertakes the center’s specific work, is responsible for providing technical support in stomatology, organizing province-wide oral health technical training, and providing technical support and guarantees for the implementation of comprehensive oral health interventions in localities throughout the province, among other tasks.

The Stomatology Center comprises 4 subspecialties: Oral Medicine (oral internal medicine), Prosthodontics, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, and Orthodontics. While providing treatment for basic oral diseases such as caries, pulp and periapical diseases, periodontal disease, and oral mucosal diseases, it also strives to provide restoration following loss of tooth structure and dentition, and treatment for oral and maxillofacial soft-tissue injuries, oral and maxillofacial tumors, oral and maxillofacial fractures, and malocclusion. It continuously learns new technologies, expands into new programs, and follows new developments in the specialties. Annual outpatient visits exceed 100,000, and annual inpatient admissions total 2,000.

At present, the department has 58 dental medical and nursing staff members, 22 with senior professional titles, 8 with full senior titles, 14 with associate senior titles, and 17 attending physicians. Five hold doctoral degrees and 3 are currently pursuing doctorates; they have all played a positive role in expanding the department’s diagnostic and treatment programs, improving professional standards, and optimizing the development of its talent structure. 1 member of this discipline is a standing committee member of the Professional Committee of Preventive Stomatology of the Chinese Stomatological Association; 1 is a member of the Expert Committee of the China Oral Disease Prevention and Treatment Foundation; 1 is vice president of the Anhui Stomatological Association; 1 is chairperson of the Anhui Stomatological Association; and 4 are standing committee members of the Anhui Stomatological Association.

Since 2017, the discipline has introduced large-scale equipment, including the AccuNavi-A navigation system, comprehensive dental treatment chairs, a dental implant unit, an imaging plate scanner, endodontic microscopes, and more. It has also increased investment in infrastructure for the Department of Stomatology in the High-Tech Park and scientifically planned the outpatient diagnostic and treatment layout. While meeting requirements for hospital infection control and quality control, this has improved patients’ comfort and satisfaction during visits, making the High-Tech outpatient clinic a new “growth point” in the Department of Stomatology’s clinical performance.

There are currently 1 doctoral supervisor, 5 master’s supervisors, and approximately 30 enrolled master’s students. The department leads multiple national and provincial research projects, has published hundreds of papers, and has received multiple provincial Science and Technology Progress Awards and Quality Awards in teaching competitions. Most physicians in the Department of Stomatology undertake oral theory teaching and clinical supervision for undergraduate students and students in the seven-year integrated bachelor’s-master’s program in the School of Stomatology, School of Clinical Medicine, School of Public Health, School of International Education, and other schools and departments of Anhui Medical University.