Look mom, no cavities

Dean of Dentistry Tom Boran with the certificate of accreditation. (Nick Pearce Photo)

Dalhousie’s Faculty of Dentistry got a stellar check-up from the Commission on Dental Accreditation of Canada.

All of the faculty’s programs—the Doctorate of Dental Surgery, Diploma in Dental Hygiene, the qualifying program, the graduate program in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and the Pediatric Dental General Residency Program—were approved during the rigorous accreditation process that takes two years to complete and happens every seven years.

The on-site visit, for example, takes a full week. And the results aren’t formally known until months later. “It’s the full meal deal,” says Thomas Boran, Dean of Dentistry.

“I am very proud of my faculty,” he says. Getting accreditation approval “is a real team effort and it was a real pleasure to share this news with them.”

As well as hosting the accreditation team, the faculty played host to observers from the United States, Hong Kong and Australia at the same time. “It was a very exciting process to showcase our faculty, not only to the accreditation body, but also to the world,” he adds.