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This list of dental schools in the U.S. includes major academic institutions in the U.S. that award advanced professional degrees of either D.D.S. or D.M.D. in the field of dentistry. [1] It does not include schools of medicine, and it includes 75 schools of dentistry in 37 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. These dental schools ...
The school was founded in 1896 as the College of Physicians and Surgeons with programs in dentistry, medicine, and pharmacy. Faith Sai So Leong, also called Sai So Yeong, graduated from the College in 1904; she was the first Chinese-American woman to graduate from a school of dentistry and become a dentist in the United States, and the first woman of any race to graduate from the College.
It became a vocational school in 1924, and then started awarding bachelor's degrees in 1940. ** California State Polytechnic University, Pomona , was founded as a southern branch of California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo in 1938, but became independent in 1966.
Jim Harrell, Jr. – past chairman of the American Dental Association Council on Governmental Affairs, and a Democratic Party (United States) politician; Chapin A. Harris – co-founded the first dental school in the US, and possibly anywhere; Gillette Hayden - served as the first female president of the American Academy of Periodontology
The School of Dentistry is considered among the nation's best research-intensive dental schools. [1] In 2014 alone, new faculty grants and contracts awarded totaled nearly $20 million from the National Institutes of Health and other funding agencies. [2] The school enrolls, on average, 88 doctoral candidates per year.
Dental schools in the U.S. state of California. ... Pages in category "Dental schools in California" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
California Northstate University (CNU) successfully launched the College of Pharmacy in 2008. Senior operations staff at the College of Pharmacy began discussions for a new medical school in the greater Sacramento area in the spring of 2010 as a result of several publications and studies which indicated the need for an increase number of primary care physicians trained in California.
The Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry is the dental school of the University of Southern California. It was established in 1897 as simply the "University of Southern California School of Dentistry" as the first established dental school in Southern California. The school graduated its first class of 11 students in 1900.