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- The School of Dentistry admits 80 students per year into a four-year curriculum leading to the DDS degree. Of the 2005-2006 entering class, 64% of DDS students are women.
- For 2006, there were more than 19 applicants for each position in the DDS program. The mean GPA of entering dental students was 3.46 on a 4.00 scale.
- For 2005-06, the School admitted 24 students into the two-year International Dentist Program (IDP). IDP students are qualified graduates of foreign dental programs who come to the U.S. to earn a DDS degree.
- The School offers postgraduate programs in several dental specialty areas: dental public health, endodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthodontics, pediatric dentistry, periodontology, prosthodontics, and a general practice residency.
- From the American Dental Association’s 2002/03 Survey of PreDoctoral Education:
- Tuition and fees to attend the School of Dentistry are affordable; it ranks 41st among the 54 U.S. dental schools.
- UCSF School of Dentistry ranks second in total expenditure per student ($137,403 per student per year).
- The School ranks first in funds received for sponsored education, research and training programs.
- A large proportion of underrepresented minority students choose UCSF. In 2002-03, the School enrolled 36% of all Hispanic dental students attending one of the five California dental schools.
- The School of Dentistry created, and continues to operate, the first postbaccalaureate program exclusively for applicants to dental schools in the United States, admitting 15 students per year. The one-year program targets disadvantaged students who have failed to gain admission to a U.S. dental school. In the seven years of the program's existence, 99% of postbaccalaureate students gained admission to dental school.
- The School is committed to training the next generation of dental scholars and faculty members. It offers PhD and Master’s degree programs in Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, a combined DDS-PhD program, and a combined PhD-dental specialty training program. Other graduate programs include Craniofacial and Mesenchymal Biology and Bioengineering, and a new DDS/MBA program.
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- The School of Dentistry operates 14 clinics at three sites, and provides more than 120,000 patient visits per year. Comprehensive dental care services are provided, including complex oral and maxillofacial surgery, and care for special-needs patients.
- Clinical income amounts to approximately $14 million per year.
- Clinical productivity of UCSF DDS students is among the highest of all 56 U.S. dental schools (according to student-generated clinical income, adjusted according to cost-of-living differences between different parts of the country).
- UCSF School of Dentistry is the single largest Denti-Cal provider in the state of California. Over the last three years, 35-40% of all Denti-Cal treatments provided by California's five dental schools were performed at UCSF.
- Fees in our student clinics are competitive, ranging from 50-75% of that of private practices. The School serves a large proportion of people on fixed incomes, public assistance recipients, and the working poor.
- Faculty and students staff a dental clinic for the homeless that provides both screening for dental disease and dental treatment at no cost to the patient.
- The School of Dentistry’s Center for Craniofacial Anomalies is responsible for the complete management of patients with cleft lip and palate, and other complex craniofacial birth defects. The Craniofacial Clinic provides services in clinical social work, nursing, orthodontics, oral/maxillofacial surgery, plastic/reconstructive surgery and speech pathology.
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Sources
- UCSF School of Dentistry Admissions data
- American Dental Association, Survey Center, 2002/03 Surveys of Predoctoral Dental Education
- Mertz et al., 2000, Geographic Distribution of Dentists
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