The Art of Dentistry

(2 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course is intended for Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s pre-dental students and will focus on developing manual dexterity, observational skills, indirect vision and fine motor skills needed for their profession through an artistic lens. Utilizing visual imagery, students will learn and create additive and subtractive tooth morphology drawings, carving, mold-making and slip casting to develop their skills, support and reinforce their prehealth studies as well as develop their aesthetic in considering the human smile through the intersection of art and biological systems.