Touro College of Dental Medicine Adds Clinical Facility in New Mexico

Touro College of Dental Medicine Adds Clinical Facility in New Mexico

TOURO COLLEGE OF DENTAL MEDICINE has added to its Hawthorne location, breaking ground in September on a clinical branch in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Located on the campus of Lovelace Biomedical Research Institute, a member of Touro University, Touro Dental Health New Mexico is the state’s first undergraduate dental clinical training facility. It is expected to open in May 2025 and enroll 200 students.

TCDM officials note that New Mexico lags behind the nation in the average number of oral healthcare professionals servicing residents of the state. They cite studies showing that the number of dentists per 100,000 people in New Mexico is only 48.4, below the national average of 60.84. They are hopeful that a significant number of graduates of the new facility will remain in state to pursue their dental careers, thereby filling the void.

Students at TCDM spend their first two years in the classroom studying basic biological sciences and the last two years seeing patients in the clinics. Going forward, 100 students from each TCDM class of 200 will do the classroom portion of their training on the college’s New York campus and spend their final two years treating patients from the Albuquerque community in the new clinical facility.