Pediatric Dentistry Residency

Our Pediatric Dentistry Residency will help you build exceptional diagnostic and clinical skills. You'll begin treating patients your first month.

Why Specialize in Pediatric Dentistry?

Pediatric dentistry is a rewarding and challenging career that offers a wealth of benefits, including working with children and educating them and their parents about the importance of oral health. Pediatric dentists experience the satisfaction, privilege and joy of helping children establish lifelong positive relationships with dental care and have an important role in children’s overall health and wellness.

Why Choose UNMC for Your Pediatric Dentistry Residency?

Our residents thrive in a close-knit, supportive environment with personalized guidance. Our outstanding faculty members mentor you and help you grow into compassionate oral health care professionals and leaders. And our residents help each other succeed. 

You'll receive hospital-based clinical experience at Children’s Nebraska, treating children’s complex dental needs, including sedation and operating room experiences.  

Our intricately designed residency experience includes instruction, hospital clinical experiences and community outreach to underserved populations. You'll begin treating patients during your first month. This combination of experiences and focus on hands-on learning will help you build exceptional diagnostic, clinical and critical-thinking skills.  

Our residents complete cutting-edge, award-winning research projects with guidance from our faculty. You'll explore challenges and make discoveries with the potential to change the future of oral health care.  

The UNMC College of Dentistry has offered a fully accredited advanced education program in pediatric dentistry since 1947.

Admissions

Visiting Us

The UNMC Pediatric Dentistry Postgraduate Residency offers three-day visits for those interested in pursuing specialty training in pediatric dentistry. 

Our residency program clinic, the UNMC Pediatric Dental Clinic, gives observers the opportunity to shadow pediatric dental residents working closely with our program faculty in the areas of pediatric dentistry, orthodontics, pediatric oral surgery and sedation. 

Typically, observers spend one day in the operating room with our pediatric dental faculty and residents while they treat children and adolescents with extensive dental restorative needs; physical, intellectual and developmental disabilities; cleft and craniofacial conditions; and complex medical conditions. 

Our clinic and hospital setting provides dental care to children from the Omaha metropolitan area, greater Nebraska and our surrounding states. 

It would be our pleasure to show you our clinic, introduce you to our program’s faculty and residents, and get to know you better. Email Alexandra Bilunas, DDS, program director, Pediatric Dentistry Residency.