~EGULAR SESSION - University of Oregon

Dental School
HAROLD ]. NOYES, D.D.S., M.D., Dean of the Dental School.
LoUIS G. TERKLA, D.M.D., Assistant to the Dean.
EUGENE W. BAUER, B.S., Business Manager; Assistant to the Dean.
ERNEST A. HURLEY, D.M.D., Registrar.
THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON DENTAL SCHOOL, located in Portland,
was established through an act of the 1945 Oregon Legislature; the act accepted
the gift of the property of the North Pacific College of Oregon, and incorported
the college into the Oregon State System of Higher Education as a school
of the University. The North Pacific College was the outgrowth of the merger in
1900 of the Tacoma Dental College (founded in 1893) and the Oregon College of
Dentistry (founded in 1898).
The Dental School offers a professional curriculum in dentistry, leading to
the degree of Doctor of Dental Medicine, graduate programs leading to the Master
of Science degree with majors in the fields of anatomy, bacteriology, biochemistry,
dental materials, oral pathology, orthodontics, pedodontics, pharmacology,
and physiology, and a two-year program for the training of dental hygienists.
The professional curriculum is organized to provide the basic scientific
knowledge, the mechanical skills, and the clinical experience essential for competence
and success in dentistry. The curriculum requires four years of didactic
and clinical training, following two or more academic years of preprofessional
work in liberal arts in an accredited college or university. The University offers,
on the Eugene campus, a three-year predental curriculum which satisfies the admission
requirements of the Dental School (see pages 145-146).
Students completing the two-year dental-hygiene program may, by taking
two additional years of work on the Eugene campus, satisfy the requirements for
the Bachelor of Science degree with a major in health education (see SCHOOL OF
HEALTH, PHYSICAL EDUCATION, AND RECREATION).
Detailed information concerning the Dental School is published in a separate
catalog; copies will be furnished on request.
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