Best Dental School Scottsdale Near Me

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A.T. Still University of Health Sciences serves as a learning-centered university dedicated to preparing highly competent professionals through innovative academic programs with a commitment to continue its osteopathic heritage and focus on whole person healthcare, scholarship, community health, interprofessional education, diversity, and underserved populations.

4worldlovers: The College of Dental Medicine-Arizona (CDMA) offers you the opportunity to build a successful career as a dentist. Our student-friendly environment stresses professionalism, mutual respect, teamwork and extensive hands-on experiences. First and second year dental students work with skilled and experienced preclinical faculty to learn critical-thinking skills and dental procedural skills on mannequins in the CDMA's Simulation Clinic. Third and fourth-year dental students in D3/D4 pairs with guidance from skilled and experienced clinical faculty to provide oral health care for an assigned family of patients in the Midwestern University Dental Institute. Upon graduation from our four-year program, you will be well-prepared for your direct entry into dental practice as a competent, confident, and competitive clinician and well-prepared to build your career as a member of tomorrow's healthcare team.

The Doctor of Dental Medicine (D.M.D.) program is based on concepts of a humanistic culture of mutual respect, a focus on general dentistry, and preparation for licensure and practice of general dentistry upon graduation. Its contemporary curriculum features integrated, systems-based basic sciences; integrated, simulation-based preclinical oral health sciences; and integrated, patient-based clinical dentistry sciences. Learning is case-based and grounded in scientific evidence. The core curriculum is supplemented with course sequences in ethics and professionalism, practice management, advanced clinical dentistry, and community service.

In pursuit of its mission, the CDMA is guided by this set of abiding and unchanging core values: