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operatories in the school’s Rex Ingraham Dental Clinic Since the founding of USC’s dental school, its leadership has recognized the need to provide students, faculty, and patients with a cutting-edge environment in which to carry out their work. Continued investment in the school’s facilities and equipment will foster extraordinary advances in dental science as well as in patient care, in turn improving the quality of life for individuals and families in our community and around the world.
Flagship Facilities Century Club Auditorium and Guggenheim Hall The newly renovated Century Club Auditorium and Guggenheim Hall, located on the fourth floor of the Norris Dental Science Center, facilitate the integration of clinical training into the school’s preclinical curriculum. Rex Ingraham Dental Clinic Located on the second floor of the Norris Dental Science Center is the school’s main clinical services area – where third- and fourth-year DDS students spend the majority of their time. Generous support from alumni and friends funded major renovations in 1988 and again in 2010, incorporating new technologies to support teaching and patient care, making the space more comfortable for patients, and creating a more effective environment for teaching, learning, and clinical practice overall.
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The dental school collaborates with the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences to establish a new minor in craniofacial and dental biotechnology.
The school receives a $35 million gift from alumnus and trustee Herman Ostrow DDS ’45 and is named the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC.
The school launches a new educational pathway admitting high-achieving dental hygiene graduates into the DDS program.