UW President Robert Jones and Gonzaga University President Katia Passerini joined elected officials in Spokane to tour the Regional Initiatives in Dental Education (RIDE’s) new 13,000-square-foot space that includes a dental simulation lab, digital dentistry lab, wet lab, dispensary, classrooms and administrative offices.
UWSOD has received a grant of nearly $175,000 from the King County Adult Dental Program to help serve uninsured and underinsured community members with necessary dental treatment, starting this summer.
The Shoreline Community College Dental Hygiene Program (SCCDHP) has found its home on the UW School of Dentistry campus. Thanks to Shoreline, UWSOD alumni and corporate partners, that home has grown a little bigger.
Nakanishi Dental Laboratory has been a purveyor of state-of-the-art dental technology and manufacturing for close to three-quarters of a century. In that time they’ve been a continuous supporter of dental education in the Pacific Northwest.
Dental hygienist training at the UW School of Dentistry is expanding significantly, thanks to a new partnership between the school and Shoreline Community College. This year, 10 Shoreline students in the second year of their school’s accredited two-year program are training at the School of Dentistry before receiving their Dental Hygiene Associate of Applied Sciences degree.