Clinics

• Two clinics constitute the primary teaching areas for the DDS program: the ninety-six-chair Richard A. Powell Comprehensive Oral Health Clinic, on the first floor; and the 100-chair second-floor clinic. 
• The third- and fourth-year classes are divided into four practice groups of approximately equal size and are split between the two clinics. 
• Each clinic is supported with a plaster room, dispensary window, instrument room, and X-ray rooms.

• The eighty-seven-chair third-floor clinic serves a variety of functions. It is the primary clinical area for many of the school’s specialty training programs. 
• The Harold R. Ortman Graduate Prosthodontics Clinic houses specialty training in prosthodontics, and nearby is the clinical area for specialty training in periodontics. Support facilities include a laboratory, two X-ray rooms with nearby processing facilities, a plaster room, instrument and dispensing rooms, and a demonstration room. 
• The third-floor clinic also houses the school’s postgraduate program in general dentistry. This one-year program provides DDS graduates with additional clinical training at a more advanced level of patient care.
• Part of the third-floor clinic has recently been renovated to become the Esthetic Dentistry Education Center. This facility provides a center for training of third- and fourth-year dental students in the use of the latest materials and techniques related to aesthetic dentistry. The Esthetic Dentistry Education Center also conducts continuing education programs for practicing dentists.

• The Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology Clinic contains a wide variety of oral radiographic equipment and is designed to provide students with training in the latest imaging techniques. 
• Second, third, and fourth-year students learn to make, evaluate, and interpret radiographs. Located on the first floor of Squire Hall, the clinic contains eight conventional X-ray rooms, two panoramic X-ray rooms, one cephalometric room, and a dedicated room for programmed panoramic zonography. 
• Support includes a darkroom with conventional and automatic processing facilities, a viewing room, a consultation room, and a conference room.

The renovation of our Patient Clinics and The Welcome Center significantly improve the standards of dental care and teaching.

• The twenty-chair Pediatric Dentistry Clinic, located on the first floor of Squire Hall, is separated from the main teaching clinics to provide a controlled environment conducive to the treatment of the young patient. 
• Third- and fourth-year students gain clinical experience in children’s dentistry by providing routine care to children between the ages of three and thirteen years. 
• Students are assigned on a rotating basis to provide care to clinic patients.

• Second, third, and fourth-year students gain experience in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinic located on the first floor of Squire Hall. 
• Second-year students receive training in the basics of local anesthesia techniques and observe third- and fourth-year students as they perform routine oral and maxillofacial surgical procedures.