Specialties: Experienced faculty, residents and students at UCSF Dental Center see nearly 40,000 patients each year — from adult and pediatric general dentistry to advanced dental specialties. UCSF Dental Center provides comprehensive care for virtually any oral health need. Established in 1881. UCSF Dental Center is operated by the UCSF School of Dentistry — part of the University of California, San Francisco, the world’s leading university focused on health.
UCSF’s faculty dentists are known nationally and internationally for their research breakthroughs. The school has ranked No. 1 in dentistry research funding from the National Institutes of Health for the last 24 years.
Student dentists see patients in their third and fourth years of study, supervised by faculty members. The school accepts less than 5 percent of students who apply to the four-year dental program.