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Our Leadership: Dean Patrick Lloyd leads the school in its mission, vision and core values.

Our Programs: The School of Dentistry has earned an international reputation for its educational, clinical, research, service and patient care programs.

Our Students:  We admit and train the best and the brightest. 

Our Faculty: Our faculty reflects a mix of tenure and tenure-track clinical specialists, along with well respected and clinically astute adjunct faculty.

Our Research Excellence: We have earned world-wide reputation for contributions to the understanding of fluoride and decay prevention, microbiology and oral-facial genetic anomalies, periodontal disease prevention, pain control, oral cancer, and effective care delivery.

Our Clinics: With 377 clinical operatories in over 71,000 square feet of clinic space, we treat about 1,000 new patients each month.

Our Dedication to Community Outreach: Our students and faculty treat patients in nursing homes and a homeless shelter, in community dental clinics and travel the state with portable equipment to treat patients in underserved communities

Our Alumni Support: We believe that our dental students are the future of the profession; and that alumni relations begin in dental school and last a lifetime. 

Our Position: Located in the heart of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, we are part of the University of Minnesota's prestigious Academic Health Center.

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