University of Utah to launch School of Dentistry in fall 2013

Published: Tuesday, April 10 2012 7:12 p.m. MDT

Summary

Beginning the fall of 2013, the University of Utah will open a School of Dentistry with an inaugural class of 20 students.

The inaugural class at Roseman University was 64 students. More than 1,500 students have applied to the school, which plans to expand its classes to 80 students, he said.

Between the two schools, the state should be able to capture the state's best students, he said. Across the country, the nation's dental schools are not keeping up with replacing the number of dentists that are retiring from the profession.

He said he hopes that the two dental schools can team up on public-private partnerships in community service.

The approaches of the school will differ in the respect that Roseman prepares dentists for primary care while the U.'s School of Dentistry will have an intensive research emphasis.

"There's plenty of need," Buchanan said, explaining that private, nonprofit schools have become safety valves for underserved populations.

"We welcome opportunities to collaborate with them (the U.) in any way," he said.

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Chris B

Salt Lake City, UT

Just another benefit from being in a prestigious BCS conference. The University of Utah will be the one and only noteworthy school in academics, athletics, and research in the state for the foreseeable future.

The future is Utah!

7:41 p.m. April 10, 2012
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Mountanman

Hayden, ID

Forget another dentist school. What we need are more law schools to produce more lawyers to sue doctors and dentists driving up health care costs so these same lawyers can give us Obamacare to cover up the problems they helped create, all paid for More..

8:15 a.m. April 11, 2012
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