Dental students from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply to Howard University's College of Dentistry. The university has traditionally been a bastion of African-American academia, and still boasts an overall student body of about 72% African-American. The pride of the university's College of Dentistry is the array of post-doctoral programs, which include AEGD, Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Orthodontics, Pediatric Dentistry and a GP Residency. The college also offers continuing education coursework for dental professionals. From the nation's capital to the capital of Virginia, students in the Washington area willing to travel about 90 miles south will discover the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry in Richmond, Va. The school offers a 4-year DDS program in addition to the 4-year BS program for dental hygienists.
Students seeking advanced studies will find postgraduate coursework in Anesthesiology for Dentistry, as well as a half-dozen other specialties. For those wishing to specialize in dental hygiene, an award winning program is available just northeast of the District of Columbia at the University of Maryland's Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. The Dental Hygiene program is just one aspect of the college's comprehensive dental studies curriculum, which also includes advanced dentistry educational programs in the areas of Endontics, Prosthodontics and Operative Dentistry disciplines. Students can also consider the dental hygiene program offered at Baltimore County Community College and on the Virginia side of the metro area, dental students can earn an associate of applied sciences degree in dental hygiene from Northern Virginia Community College located in Springfield. For those hygienists who prefer the fresh mountain air to the big city, a 100 mile drive northwest of Washington to Cumberland, Md. will bring you to the dental hygiene program at Allegany College in the heart of Appalachia. Dental students starting their careers as a dental assistant can consider the certificate program at Hagerstown Business College in Frederick, Md.
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