Goals

• Prepare graduates in dentistry and dental hygiene to deliver patient care with a scientific basis and a caring manner.
• Instill a professional and societal responsibility in all students that will prepare them to become community leaders and address the public need.
• Provide practitioners and educators with continuing education opportunities to learn recent advances in dentistry and related fields.
• Contribute to the advancement of dentistry through basic, applied and educational research.
• Provide advanced education programs in dental research, education, general dentistry and dental specialities.
• Be a resource in oral health care for the public and community leaders.