This paper reports contributions that students have made in the development of self-instructional materials in dentistry. It begins with a description of forces that encourage utilizing students as members of the instructional development staff and reports the role students have played in attempts to develop an individualized curriculum in dentistry. At the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, preclinical dentistry courses are laboratory analogues of clinical dentistry; that is, students perform on simulators the procedures they will later perform on patients. The body of this paper is concerned with the efforts of the preclinical team in developing curricula. A substantial portion of this course is now in self-instructional modes and the entire course will be prepared when it is required for students who enter in the fall of 1974. (Author/PG)