The history of the department began in 1985, when, on the initiative of Professor V.A.Kiselev at the Kuban Medical Institute named after the Red Army, a department for advanced training of dentists was organized, headed by Professor A.I.Baronov, but a year later the department was already disbanded.The story continued only in 1992, when on November 16 the rector signed order No. 294 on the organization of the Department of Dentistry of the Faculty of Advanced Training and Professional Retraining of Specialists at the Kuban Medical Institute named after the Red Army, the head of which until 2011 was Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor A.N.Bondarenko.From 2011 to 2015, the department was headed by Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor R.B.Ermoshenko, and from 2015 to 2022 the department was headed by Candidate of Medical Sciences, Professor V.V.Erichev.Currently, the Department of Dentistry is based at the Institute of Continuing Education of the Kuban State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia and is headed by Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Natalya Viktorovna Lapina.At the Department of Dentistry, the training of clinical residents and dentists is carried out using various forms of training: full-time, part-time, correspondence with elements of distance technologies in the specialties: General Dentistry, Therapeutic Dentistry, Orthopedic Dentistry, Surgical Dentistry, Pediatric Dentistry, Orthodontics.Employees of the department in all areas of the specialty of dentistry have developed and applied more than 40 training programs for postgraduate training within the framework of the continuing medical education program, including programs developed for nursing staff: nurses and dental technicians.Every year, clinical residents and dentists from municipal clinics and private dental clinics in the city of Krasnodar, the Krasnodar Territory and other regions of the Russian Federation are trained under postgraduate education programs with budgetary and self-supporting funding.Currently, the teaching staff of the department is represented by: Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Lapina N.V., Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Risovanny S.I., Doctor of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor N.I. Bykova, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor Mitropanova M.N., Doctor of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor Risovannaya O.N.;Candidates of Medical Sciences, Associate Professors: Aksenova T.V., Ayupova F.S., Bondarenko N.A., Vinichenko E.L., Patyukov V.V., Ovcharenko E.S.;assistants: Ph.D.Nizhnik V.G., Ph.D.Dragan E.V., Karapetov S.A., Bogacheva Yu.V., Maryanenko L.M., Mafagel F.A., Stolyar R.I., Taranova N.Yu.In their work they are assisted by senior laboratory assistants: Vetluzhskikh E.S., Geyer K.S., Dubodelova V.A.
Dentistry
The main direction of the department’s work is educational and methodological work with clinical residents and students of advanced training cycles and professional retraining of specialists, as well as modern scientific developments of methods for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of functional disorders of the stomatognathic system.The methodological work of the Department of Dentistry is aimed at improving the training of specialists, searching and introducing new forms of training and methods for monitoring the knowledge of clinical residents, in the process of practical training in order to intensify learning by awakening their interest in the clinical discipline, creative study of educational material, development of clinical thinking at outpatient appointments and practice in the process of improving manual skills.The clinical bases of the department are 42 municipal and private dental clinics in the city of Krasnodar and the Krasnodar region.All employees of the Department of Dentistry, from the day of its foundation, have been practicing doctors and in their clinical and educational work widely use the accumulated experience, put forward their own innovative ideas, use new trends and developments, a variety of diagnostic and treatment methods.The professional skills and extensive teaching experience of the staff of the Department of Dentistry are used in joint work with health authorities of the Krasnodar region.The department is actively conducting scientific activities within the framework of a comprehensive research work “Complex restorative and reconstructive treatment of diseases of the masticatory-speech apparatus” together with the Department of Orthopedic Dentistry.Within the framework of the complex topic of research in the scientific specialty 3.1.7 – Dentistry, 2 candidate’s dissertations have been defended over the past 3 years: by graduate student I.R.Manukyan “Optimization of complex endodontic treatment during pre-prosthetic preparation of the oral cavity”, N.P.Bagdasaryan “The effectiveness of the developed algorithm for complex therapy of acute and chronic gingivitis” and 1 doctoral dissertation N.I.Bykova “Pathogenetic basis for the treatment of inflammatory periodontal diseases of varying severity (experimental and clinical study).”Since 2024, the department has trained 2 full-time budget graduate students who carry out scientific research for the academic degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences as part of the department’s comprehensive research work.