WVU School of Dentistry to Build Innovation Center

West Virginia University School of Dentistry will soon be one of only three schools in the United States and Canada to have a dentistry Innovation Center sponsored by the Center for Research and Technology Incorporated.

West Virginia University School of Dentistry has partnered with the Center for Research and Technology Inc. to build the center, which will include some of the newest developed equipment on the market. CRET is a group of more than 20 dental equipment manufacturers and suppliers. The new WVU center will be available to fourth-year students and alumni and will simulate private practice. WVU’s hope is that the center will help enhance students’ training and clinical practice. The partnership also gives students the opportunity to try out some of the equipment they will need to buy after graduation for free and allows the students to give feedback to the manufacturers about the equipment itself.

CRET Innovation Centers were also opened at Loma Linda University in California and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. West Virginia University School of Dentistry is the only dentistry school in the state

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