The School of Dentistry
The year of the School of Dentistry’s founding.
What is 1898?
Portland is home to this dormant volcano.
What is Mt. Tabor?
The medical term for the upper jaw.
What is the maxilla?
The annual OHSU student price for an unlimited annual Tri-Met transit pass.
What is $50?
The largest organ in the human body.
What is the skin?
“To provide the highest quality oral health education, patient care, research and community service.”
What is the School of Dentistry’s mission statement?
Portland’s Mill Ends Park enjoys this special distinction.
What is the world’s smallest park?
This small fold of mucous membrane attaches the underside of the tongue to the floor of the human mouth.
What is the lingual frenulum?
The number of on-campus gyms OHSU students have access to.
What is two?
Relative to its mass, the strongest muscle in the human body.
What is the masseter?
This department oversees fourth-year students’ external rotations.
What is the Department of Dental Public Health?
Upon its founding, Portland almost had the indignity of being named this.
What is Boston?
The parotid, submandibular, and sublingual are all types of this gland.
What is a salivary gland?
The total duration of fourth-year students’ external rotations.
What is eight to twelve weeks?
This is the average lifespan of the human red blood cell.
What is 120 days?
The School of Dentistry has occupied the Robertson Collaborative Life Sciences Building since this year.
What is 2014?
This copper repoussé statue is the second-tallest in the US, after the Statue of Liberty.
What is the Portlandia Statue?
This rare genetic disorder leads to total lack of dentition.
What is anodontia?
OHSU offers these internal specialty rotations.
What are endodontics, periodontics, oral surgery and orthodontics?
The first woman to ever win a Nobel Prize.
Who was Marie Curie?
A first-year DMD student’s first collaborative exercise with their bridge group is to build one of these.
What is a sand sculpture/sandcastle?
Oregonians own one-quarter of the United States population of this animal.
What is the llama?
This soft, cohesive substance, found in human mouths since the Neolithic period, was commercialized for the first time in the 1860’s.
What is chewing gum?
First-year students typically have to take the Tram in order to take this course.
What is Anatomy and Physiology?
The hypoglossal nerve is responsible for the movement of this organ.
What is the tongue?