Tufts University School of Dental Medicine (TUSDM or Tufts Dental) is a private dental school and one of the eight schools that comprise Tufts University. Tufts Dental is located in downtown Boston in the Chinatown district. Admission into the School of Dental Medicine is highly competitive with an acceptance rate ~7.1%. The building is adjacent to Tufts Medical Center.
In 2011, the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Gies Foundation presented Tufts University School of Dental Medicine with its 2011 William J. Gies Award for Outstanding Achievement by an Academic Dental Institution. The award recognizes leadership in teaching, research, community service, and diversity.
The School of Dental Medicine was established in 1868 as Boston Dental College. It was incorporated into Tufts College, which later became Tufts University, in 1899. Tufts Dental graduate Dr. Charles Quinn (DMD, 1942) led the fight to fluoridate Winchester's water supply as a tooth decay preventative. As a result of his efforts, Winchester, MA became the first municipality in the United States to fluoridate its water supply.
In addition to the DMD degree Doctor of Dental Medicine, Tufts Dental offers combined DMD/MS (Master of Science in Dental Research) and DMD/MPH (Master of Public Health) degrees. It has a diverse post-doctoral program including Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Endodontics, Periodontics, Orthodontics, Prosthodontics and Implant Dentistry, as well as certificate programs in Craniomandibular Disorders and Orofacial Pain, Advanced Dental Technology and Research Program, Implant Dentistry Fellowship, and Advanced Education in Esthetic Dentistry.
Read more about Tufts University School Of Dental Medicine: Admissions, Student Class Profile, Curriculum, Facilities, Renaming The School: 1954, Research, Student Organizations, Current Dean of Tufts University School of Dental Medicine
Famous quotes containing the words tufts, university, school, dental and/or medicine:
“Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,
Whether the summer clothe the general earth
With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing
Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch
Of mossy apple-tree,”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“Poetry presents indivisible wholes of human consciousness, modified and ordered by the stringent requirements of form. Prose, aiming at a definite and concrete goal, generally suppresses everything inessential to its purpose; poetry, existing only to exhibit itself as an aesthetic object, aims only at completeness and perfection of form.”
—Richard Harter Fogle, U.S. critic, educator. The Imagery of Keats and Shelley, ch. 1, University of North Carolina Press (1949)
“...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)
“[T]hose wholemeal breads ... look hand-thrown, like studio pottery, and are fine if you have all your teeth. But if not, then not. Perhaps the rise ... of the ... factory-made loaf, which may easily be mumbled to a pap betweeen gums, reflects the sorry state of the nation’s dental health.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“After you eat always take a walk, and you’ll never have to go to a medicine shop.”
—Chinese proverb.
Rhyme.