Dr. Atousa Azarbal is an assistant professor in the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine Department of Prosthodontics. She serves as the Director of Predoctoral Prosthodontics, overseeing the curriculum design, simulation clinic, and clinical education for predoctoral students in the disciplines of fixed, removable, implant, and digital prosthodontics.
Dr. Azarbal earned her Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) degree at University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine and completed a three-year residency in advanced prosthodontics at University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine, where she gained expertise in complex rehabilitative and esthetic dental treatments.
Dr. Azarbal is a practicing prosthodontist at UDHS (the University of Pittsburgh’s faculty dental practice), where she provides comprehensive patient care, specializing in esthetic and functional rehabilitations, implant prosthodontics, and digital dentistry.
Administrative
Clinical Prosthodontics in Graduate Prosthodontics Clinic , 9 residents, 8hour/ week
Clinical Fixed Prosthodontics, 80 students, 28 hours/week, predoctoral students
Clinical removable prosthodontics, 80 students, 28 hours,/week predoctoral
students
Advanced Standing Summer Course Removable partial denture and complete
dentures lecture and lab, 7-8 students, 32 hours
Principles of Dental Occlusion, 80 students, 120 hours, predoctoral students, 11
lectures and 7 preclinical lab sessions.
Fixed Partial Dentures lab, 80 students, 48 hours, predoctoral students
Fixed Prosthodontics 2 lab, 20 students, 1 hour lecture
Complete Dentures 2, 80 Students, 1 hour lecture
Dental Anatomy and Morphology course, 80 students, 2-hour lecture on
Introduction to occlusion
Digital dentistry course, 80 students, 48 hours of sim lab session
Complete dentures lab, 20 predoctoral students, 48 hours of sim lab session
Fixed Partial Dentures 1 lab, 20 students, 48 hours of sim lab session
Removable Partial Dentures lab, 20 students, 48 hours of lab session
Bloodborne Pathogen Training- Infection Control orientation lecture, 1 hour, for predoctoral students, residents and Advanced Standing Students