University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Dentistry

Since their founding in 1881, the UCSF School of Dentistry has striven to educate the leading practitioners, scholars and faculty members of the next generation. As a leading institution of oral and craniofacial health, their educational programs have grown to include, in addition to their DDS and dental hygiene programs, an array of MS and PhD, post-graduate and residency programs. Their students and faculty handle over 120,000 patient visits a year in their comprehensive Dental Center, and many of their students staff 14 community-based externship sites. The School is also one of the top oral and craniofacial research enterprises in the world, ranked the top dental school in the country in research funding from the National Institutes of Health for 25 years and home to several leading translational research programs.

Mission:
Patient Care - Education - Service - Research.

Vision:
Advancing health for all.