The Department of Orthodontics offers a full-time 36-month, combined certificate-master's degree program. The postdoctoral program is designed to fulfill the specialty accreditation standards established by the Commission on Dental Accreditation for Programs in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics.
Orthodontic residents are educationally qualified for and required to sit for the American Board of Orthodontics written examination and complete their master's degree program in order to receive their certificate in orthodontics.