UNIARA

General Objectives

The Master`s Degree in Dental Sciences aims to train professionals capable of developing quality research methodology, scientific writing, teaching, public speaking, critical thinking, and interdisciplinary clinical practice, with an emphasis on technology and scientific innovation, who are prepared to work as professors, researchers, speakers, and distinguished clinicians in educational institutions as well as in companies or private clinics.

This program also aims to capture human and financial resources through teaching and research, generate the development of products and services that contribute to the good of the community, and always be in search of new technologies and innovation, often resulting from internationalization.

Specific Objectives

Therefore, the specific objectives of the Program include:

• Training and qualification of human resources;
• Obtaining funding;
• Training and qualification of professionals with leadership skills;
• Training and qualification of professionals providing public and private health services;
• Training and qualification of professionals with a methodological scientific basis;
• Training and qualification of clinical professionals with an interdisciplinary vision;
• Training of masters qualified in public speaking and teaching methodology, as well as able to provide excellent guidance and scientific writing;
• Establishing exchanges with scientific centers always seeking new methodologies, innovation and technology;
• Integration of graduate and undergraduate courses at the School of Dentistry;
• Integration with other graduate programs both at the Institution itself and with partner institutions;
• Development of products and services;
• Contribute to the active community, both in education and in service.

The Professional Master`s Degree in Dental Sciences at Uniara was proposed after extensive reflection by the Higher Education Institution, taking advantage of the growing incentive for Scientific Initiation, with the involvement of its faculty. In 2010, it was approved by CAPES, and began in March 2011. Over the course of years, the program`s proposal was improved, focusing on training a master`s degree holder with a solid foundation in scientific methodology, teaching, and interdisciplinary clinical practice with an emphasis on technology and scientific innovation.

Technical and scientific production is increasing with the development of projects, including products and patent filings. There is consolidation of research lines and scientific publications and book chapters involving faculty and undergraduate and graduate students with interdisciplinary clinical and laboratory research. In 2016, with a view to developing research, a partnership was initiated with researchers from the Departments of Oral Cell Biology and Periodontics at the Academisch Centrum Tandheelkunde Amsterdam - ACTA (Netherlands). Additionally, the Master`s in Dental Sciences provided international courses with professors from the University of Michigan and the University of Texas, both in the United States.

In the same year, the CEREC - Dentsply-Sirona equipment was acquired, with which the research project "Evaluation of the adaptation and fracture resistance of hybrid CAD/CAM crowns on a titanium base and Exact Universal Abutment" was initiated. In 2017, we acquired the FormLabs 3D printer to carry out studies in virtual planning and guided surgery, with the aim of conducting research with new technologies proposed in Dentistry.

In 2017, we started a program on Rádio Uniara, with a weekly presentation to clarify dental treatments for the population of Araraquara and region.

We currently have partnerships with the companies Dabi Atlante (Pross), Conexão Sistemas de Implantes, SIN, Procell, Geistlich, Neodent, Renova and Bioparts. These partnerships are already beginning to bear fruit, with the development of theses, products, and patents.

In order to encourage interaction between undergraduate and graduate students, the Program has started a Teaching Project with an active methodology, called PIC-Odonto, developed and taught by master`s students to undergraduate students in an extracurricular manner. This project aims to stimulate teaching and research, promotes the construction of knowledge, and the development of skills and attitudes considered important for effective professional practice for undergraduate and postgraduate students. This project envisions the beginning of a line of research in teaching that began with a PIBIC project and an international partnership with the doctorate in Educational Sciences at Universidad Gran Asunción, Pedro Juan Caballero Branch, where we will act as the host of the research and co-supervision of the thesis. The program`s faculty members were responsible for creating and continue to coordinate the Institution`s Animal Experimentation Ethics Committee and Biological Research Center (BIOTÉRIO), promoting research throughout the university.

The Institution has been accredited with two more Master`s Program and two Doctorate Programs, totaling 6 Master`s Programs and 2 Doctorate Programs offered by Uniara. The institution has been increasingly consolidating its research presence, and, in 2016, it changed from a University Center to a University.