The postgraduate courses of the School of Dentistry seek the development and expansion of knowledge by providing fundamental, important training in the areas of knowledge that respond to the needs of the community and the environment.

The academic training of postgraduate courses seeks to expand knowledge through research to develop clinical skills and abilities that allow us to address the different oral health problems that affect our population.

1. To train professionals who develop activities to solve health problems related to periodontal disease, emphasizing, as a predisposing or contributing factor, systemic and general medical activities.
2. To train professionals to make clinical and radiographic diagnoses, prognoses and execute general and specialized plans in the treatment of Periodontal Disease.
3. Promote research as a fundamental and important element in the search for solutions to the problem of periodontal disease.
4. Promote teaching activities that will allow the specialist to have some training in pedagogy in the future, with the eventual option of working as a teacher in both undergraduate and postgraduate activities.

1. Degree in Dentistry awarded by a national or foreign university, according to current regulations.
2. Compulsory Social Year completed or certified (Nationals).
3. Degree certifications indicating grade point average and position held.
4. Complete the admission form and pay the registration fees (non-refundable).
5. Pass the admission tests established for this purpose by the Office of Extension and Postgraduate Studies.
6. English proficiency exam.
7. Complete resume.
8. Pass the interview conducted by the selection committee.

Admissions: Every year and a half.

Details on the admission and registration schedule and process should be consulted at the Admissions and Academic Registration Area website.

Professional Profile

As a specialist, you will be able to respond to regional and national needs and act as an integral agent in health problems with an emphasis on periodontal disorders. Your training seeks to ensure that the knowledge acquired can be applied in practice.

Occupational Profile

The postgraduate courses of the School of Dentistry of the Universidad del Valle are based on the philosophy that the institution itself establishes for all its undergraduate and graduate areas, based on the comprehensive training of specialists, experts in the clinical performance of their specialty, with a high social projection and academic character and characteristics of research and teaching.

First Semester

• Molecular Biology Immunology I Genetics
• Research Methodology I
• Semiology
• Periodontology

Second Semester

• Pharmacology
• Microbiology
• Photograph
• Information Technology (IT)
• Immunology II
• Research Methodology II
• Periodontology II

Third Semester

• Occlusion
• Bioethics and Psychology
• Geriatric Dentistry
• Seminars I
• Research Methodology III
• Periodontology III

Fourth Semester

• General anesthesia
• Seminars II
• Seminars on new pedagogies I
• Osseointegration I
• Research Methodology IV
• Periodontology IV

Fifth Semester

• Administration and Management
• Seminars III
• Seminars on new pedagogies II
• Research Methodology V
• Osseointegration II
• Periodontology V

• Having passed all 49 credits and meeting the regulatory requirements established by the University law.
• Carry out the support of a research paper.

In 1990, Dr. Jorge Enrique Soto, coordinator of the periodontics area in undergraduate studies, began the preliminary project, with the collaboration of the Director, at that time, Dr. Gerardo Umaña and Dr. Aristide Faralle. In 1993, Resolution 073 of November 1993 was issued, later there was a modification of the Resolution for the Academic Program and Resolution 007 of May 8, 1996 was issued, by which Art. 2 of Resolution 073 was modified and the curriculum of the Specialization in Periodontology was defined.