University of Washington School of Dentistry

The School of Dentistry shares the UniversityÇƒÙs overall mission to generate, disseminate, and preserve knowledge, and to serve the community. The School is an integral part of the Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center, and is an oral health care center of excellence serving the people of the State of Washington and the Pacific Northwest. Our primary mission, through educational, research, and service programs, is to prepare students to be competent oral health care professionals. The SchoolÇƒÙs research programs contribute to the fundamental understanding of biologic processes and to the behavioral, biomedical, and clinical aspects of oral health. The service mission is to improve the health and well-being of the people of the community and the region through outreach programs that are especially attentive to minority and underserved populations. The School values diversity in its students, staff, faculty, and patient populations. It seeks to foster an environment of mutual respect where objectivity, imaginative inquiry, and the free exchange of ideas can flourish to facilitate personal development, professionalism, and a strong sense of self-worth.
The University of Washington School of Dentistry offers an excellent education leading to a professional health care career in a challenging and growing discipline.
The School of Dentistry is located on the University of Washington's main campus which occupies approximately 700 acres on the shores of Portage Bay and Lake Washington in north-central Seattle. Established in 1945, the School of Dentistry is one of six professional schools that are components of the state-supported Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center, an internationally recognized teaching research and patient care facility. The other components include the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work, Public Health and Community Medicine, six special research centers and institutes, the University of Washington Medical Center and Harborview Medical Center which all contribute to the rich and diverse educational setting.
In 1992 the School of Dentistry opened the Regional Clinical Dental Research Center. One of two funded in the nation, the Center's mission is to foster clinically relevant research that will advance dentistry's knowledge base, improve patient care, and promote oral health. State of the art clinical research facilities are available for faculty and student use.
In addition to the Doctor of Dental Surgery (D.D.S.) degree, the School offers a DDS/PhD and a baccalaureate degree completion program in Dental Hygiene and advanced education leading to a Master of Science in Dentistry degree and/or a certificate of proficiency in Endodontics, Oral Biology, Oral Pathology, Oral Medicine, Orthodontics, Pediatric Dentistry, Periodontics, and Prosthodontics. Residency training programs are available in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Pediatric Dentistry and the General Practice of Dentistry. Masters of science (M.S.) and doctoral degrees (Ph.D.) in Oral Biology and research training in Public Health and Behavioral Research in Dentistry and Cross-Disciplinary Dental Science are also offered.