KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF DENTAL MEDICINE

Kansas City University College of Dental Medicine is projected to open in 2022 in Joplin, Mo., and will seat a class of 80 students. The new college will address significant and growing oral health needs in the four-state region of southwest Missouri, northwest Arkansas, northeast Oklahoma and southeast Kansas. The dental curriculum will focus on early clinical training and issues related to community and population health. Fourth-year dental students will provide comprehensive oral health care to thousands of underserved patients in partner sites throughout the region under the supervision of adjunct faculty preceptors.