You will be trained in surgical and prosthetic skills and acquire the scientific knowledge necessary for sustainable restorative and reconstructive oral care.
Outline of the programme
The first two years will provide you with theoretical, practical, and scientific training in the basic skills of oral implantology and oral rehabilitation. You will then have immediate access to patient care under supervision and work towards independence. Throughout the programme, you will receive intensive supervision in reconstructive treatment planning. This is also known as backward treatment planning.
By the third year, you will have mastered the basic skills of oral implantology. Independently or with a colleague, you will carry out the most common oral implant treatments. More advanced (surgical) treatments, such as bone remodelling techniques and restoring function with (in)direct restorations, will allow you to develop further skills.
Degree
All Oral Health Sciences students are conferred a joint master’s degree in Oral Health Sciences by both the University of Amsterdam and VU Amsterdam, which specifies the chosen graduation profile.
This three-year master course will comply with the conditions stated by the NVOI (Dutch Association for Oral Implantology) for registration as a specialized dentist in Oral Implantology (Tandarts Implantoloog) in the Netherlands. Application for registration as such is the responsibility of the candidate and will be judged by the Concilium Implantologicum of the NVOI.
Department of Reconstructive Oral Care
The profile Prosthodontics and Oral Implantology in the Master Oral Health Sciences is organised by the department of Reconstructive Oral Care. The profile coordinators Dr João Tribst and Drs Johan Cossé are responsible for the content and organisation of the program.
Dr João Tribst is the Head of the Reconstructive Dentistry Section. He is a dentist with a master's degree and a PhD in restorative dentistry with a specialization in prosthodontics. He graduated from the São Paulo State University. He has experience in the field of dentistry with a focus on dental materials, dental prostheses, dental ceramics, finite element analysis, and dental implants. Since 2021 he has worked at ACTA as a docent and researcher.
Drs Johan Cossé graduated from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 1988. From 1990 to 2007 he worked as a general dentist in a group practice in Hoofddorp, where his work consisted of prosthetic dentistry and implantology. From 1996 to 1998, Cossé was a member of the Department of Implantology at ACTA. Since 1999, he has worked at the Clinic for Periodontology Amsterdam (KvPA). From 2007, Cossé worked as a lecturer, trainer, and researcher in the Department of Implantology at ACTA.