Mission

We improve oral health care through caring, discovery, teaching and learning.

Vision

• To be the premier dental postgraduate training environment for the education of dentistry’s future academic leaders
• To be a local and national leader of high quality oral health care which is evidence-based with an emphasis on prevention and community service
• To move into the top ranking in NIDCR funding, EDD focusing on clinical/translational research and COB on basic research
• To develop a service/education system which is a national model for the integration of dentistry with medicine and the health care system