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What is Dentistry?
Dentistry can be defined as the evaluation, diagnosis, prevention and/or
treatment (nonsurgical, surgical or related procedures) of diseases,
disorders and/or conditions of the oral cavity, maxillofacial area
and/or the adjacent and associated structures and their impact on the
human body; provided by a dentist, within the scope of his/her
education, training and experience, in accordance with the ethics of the
profession and applicable law.
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What is a DDS or a DMD?
DDS = Doctor of
Dental Surgery
DMD = Doctor of Dental Medicine
Indicates the degree awarded upon graduation from dental school to
become a general dentist. There is no difference between the two
degrees; dentists who have a DMD or DDS have the same education.
Universities have the prerogative to determine what degree is awarded.
Generally, three or more years of undergraduate education plus four
years of dental school is required to graduate and become a general
dentist. State licensing boards accept either degree as equivalent, and
both degrees allow licensed individuals to practice the same scope of
general dentistry. Additional post-graduate training is required to
become a dental specialist, such as an orthodontist, periodontist or
oral and maxillofacial surgeon.
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Dental Schools
This section contains a listing of all the major dental schools in the
continental USA. For more information on any of the schools please click
on a colored link to be taken to that school's official website.
Further information regarding dental schools and other dental
education issues may be obtained by visiting the American Dental
Education Association (ADEA) website at www.adea.org
United States
Baylor College of Dentistry, A Member of The Texas
A&M University System
Boston University,
Goldman School of Dental Medicine
Case Western Reserve University School of Dentistry
Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery
Creighton
University School of Dentistry
Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Howard University
College of Dentistry
Indiana University School of
Dentistry
Loma
Linda University School of Dentistry
Louisiana State University School
of Dentistry
Marquette
University School of Dentistry
Medical College of Georgia School of
Dentistry
Medical University
of South Carolina College of Dental Medicine
Meharry Medical
College School of Dentistry
New York
University Kriser Dental Center
Northwestern University Dental School
Nova
Southeastern University College of Dentistry
Ohio
State University College of Dentistry
Oregon Health Sciences University
School of Dentistry
Southern
Illinois University School of Dental Medicine
State University of New York at
Buffalo School of Dental Medicine
State University of
New York at Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine
Temple
University School of Dentistry
Tufts University School of Dental
Medicine
University
of Alabama School of Dentistry
University of California, Los
Angeles School of Dentistry
University of California,
San Francisco School of Dentistry
University of Colorado School of
Dentistry
University of Connecticut School of Dental
Medicine
University
of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry
University of Florida College of
Dentistry
University of Illinois at Chicago
College of Dentistry
University of Iowa College of Dentistry
University of Kentucky
College of Dentistry
University of
Louisville School of Dentistry
University of Maryland,
Baltimore, College of Dental Surgery
University of
Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Dental School
University of Michigan School of
Dentistry
University of Minnesota School of
Dentistry
University of Mississippi School of
Dentistry
University of Missouri-Kansas
City School of Dentistry
University of Nebraska Medical
Center, College of Dentistry
University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill School of Dentistry
University of Oklahoma College of
Dentistry
University of the Pacific School of
Dentistry
University of Pennsylvania School
of Dental Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of
Dental Medicine
University of Puerto
Rico, School of Dentistry
University of Southern
California School of Dentistry
University of Tennessee College of Dentistry
University of Texas Health Science
Center at Houston Dental School
University of Texas Health Science
Center at San Antonio Dental School
University of Washington
School of Dentistry
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry
West
Virginia University School of Dentistry
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