2010 年 23 巻 4 号 p. 723-731
Nowadays, many basic and clinical research papers have been reported and oral implantology has become organized in dentistry. In recent years, questions on implantology have been set in national board examinations, and so almost all dental schools have introduced programs and syllabuses accordingly. In August 2008, the Japan Society of Oral Implantology was requested by the Japanese Association for Dental Science to conduct a questionnaire survey on undergraduate programs for implant education for 29 dental schools. The answers were analyzed and the following results were obtained.
1. All of the dental schools had an oral implantology undergraduate curriculum.
2. Regarding the grade in which oral implantology is taught, the fourth grade accounted for 43%, the fifth grade 36%, the sixth grade 14% and the third grade 7%.
3. Lectures were conducted by the assigned department in 76% of cases, by one department in 17%, and 7% gave no answer. In the case of an assigned department, the prosthodontics department accounted for 25%, oral maxillofacial surgery 23%, periodontology 14%, dental implantology 11%, dental radiology 7% and pathology, dental materials, oral anatomy 4% each.
4. Basic practice using models was conducted in 52% of dental schools, and 3% of schools are planning to do so.
5. Some 96% regarded that a standardized curriculum in the future is “necessary”;4% gave no answer.
