Dr. Gerald Niznick College of Dentistry

Preventive Dental Science

Our department primarily focuses on educating patients and the community at large on the benefits of good oral hygiene practices to prevent oral disease and dental caries. Through our specialty clinics, we concentrate on interceptive care in both orthodontics and pediatric dentistry — treating malocclusion in our orthodontic graduate clinic and definitive dental care procedures for our children patients in the pediatric dentistry specialty clinic.

Dental clinics
An indigenous child receives dental treatment.

  • Department head

    • William Wiltshire

Undergraduate programs Dental education

To teach dental and dental hygiene students about prevention and interception of dental disease and malocclusion as well as train dental students in orthodontic and pediatric dentistry procedures required by the practicing dentist.

Our enhanced training experience is presented in several different formats: class lectures, reading assignments, self-directed study as well as pre-clinical and clinic sessions.

Learn more about our undergraduate programs

Undergraduate courses

YearCourse CodeCourse Title
Second YearPDSD 2400Orthodontics 2
PDSD 2410Pediatric Dentistry 1
PDSD 2420Dental Public Health
PDSD 2430Introduction to Orthodontics
Third YearPDSD 3402Orthodontics 3
PDSD 3404Dental Public Health 2
PDSD 3412Pediatric Dentistry 2
Fourth YearPDSD 4402Orthodontics 4
PDSD 4412Pediatric Dentistry 3
PDSD 4422Community Dentistry Externship
Dental students looking at a denture mold in a lab.

residency Clinical specialty programs

Braces being installed on a patient.

Master of Science in Orthodontics

The Master of Science in Orthodontics program provides a background in the basic sciences underlying orthodontic treatment and instills a critical, independent, problem-solving approach toward clinical practice.

Learn more about Orthodontics (MSc)

Master of Dentistry in Pediatric Dentistry

The Master of Dentistry in Pediatric Dentistry program provides an opportunity for dentists to pursue higher education and research in the field of pediatric dentistry with a focus on prevention and public health in underserved and disadvantaged communities (Indigenous, rural and urban poor).

Learn more about Pediatric Dentistry (MDent)

department Research

Close up of dental tissue being examined under a microscope.

Members of the Preventive Dental Science department are active in various areas of research, including:

Orthodontic Research

  • Orthodontic biomaterials
  • Epidemiology of malocclusion
  • Public health orthodontics
  • Preventive and interceptive orthodontics
  • Biology of tooth movement

Early Childhood Oral Health

  • Epidemiology of early childhood caries
  • Prevention of early childhood caries
  • Early childhood oral health promotion
  • Nutrition and early childhood oral health
  • Silver diamine fluoride to manage early childhood caries

Research Methodologies

  • Educational research
  • Qualitative research

Specialized Research Areas

  • Indigenous oral health research
  • Health services research
  • Oral health of seniors

College research and scholarly activity

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Contact us

Preventive Dental Science
Room 341, Dentistry Building
790 Bannatyne Avenue
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3E 0W2 Canada

Maureen.Stefishen@umanitoba.ca
204-789-3307