Henderson Dental Center

A State of the Art Facility Designed for Teaching

From the beginning of the General Dental Residency Program at Trinity Health Oakland, we established a goal of providing excellent treatment for each patient that we see. Our residents perform all of the services that would be typical of a general dental office. Due to a broad and deep pool of patients requiring care, we are able to give each resident clinical experiences in all areas of dentistry.

Treatment Planning

The Henderson Dental Center is the home of the General Dental Residency Program at Trinity Health Oakland. Designed and built in 2018, this beautiful facility offers 5 treatment rooms equipped with all of the latest technology to deliver dental treatment. Each treatment room offers air and electric handpieces, imaging with digital sensors, intraoral cameras, and multiple computer monitors. The center also offers phosphor plate imaging, a portable Trios scanner, and an endodontic microscope. Residents can move from room to room in any of the four treatment rooms and find identical equipment and materials.

The fifth treatment room has additional capability in order to accommodate special procedures. The dental chair can be moved to the side and a wheelchair mount allows patients to be positioned most effectively for treatment. This room also allows provides extra space for monitors, or other support equipment to meet the special needs of any patient.

The conference room is a special teaching space that allows faculty and residents to review cases with radiographs and photographs on the large monitors. It is a tremendous area for teaching during treatment and reviewing ongoing cases for the purposes of treatment planning.

Imaging for the patients in the Henderson Dental Center is also provided by a Panoramic/CBCT machine located just down the hall from Henderson Dental Center. This machine gives us the ability to merge the CBCT image with the intraoral image from the TREOS scanner and have a complete hard and soft tissue image of the patient. This is very useful in treatment planning for dental implants.