6516 M.D. Anderson Blvd., Suite 1.085, Houston, TX  77030
phone 713.500.4086 - fax 713.500.0410
email: db-dental-hygiene@uth.tmc.edu

Philosophy and Goals

We aspire to be the model Dental Hygiene Program for the 21st century, dedicated to advancing the health of the people of the State of Texas, the nation, and our global community through educating compassionate health care professionals and innovative scientists and through discovering and translating advances in the social and biomedical sciences to treat, cure, and prevent disease now and in the future.

The primary focus of the Dental Branch is the education of dental health professionals of the highest caliber. In pursuit of excellence, the Dental Branch and The School of Dental Hygiene will focus its educational energies on its students and patients as it teaches the basic and clinical sciences along with professional and ethical standards in an environment of collegiality, respect for diversity and attention to its foundation principles.

Therefore the goals of the dental hygiene program are to:

• Educate students to be qualified oral health care professionals in their chosen field of dental hygiene by preparing them for future practice in a highly-technologic world - amid a population that is aging, ethnically diverse and consumer-oriented.
• Assess curricula to find ways of integrating new methods and new content as appropriate.
• Educate clinically competent health care professionals.
• Pursue means to improve the quality of care provided to its patients and the methods used to deliver care.