The first of its kind in the state, the facility is purpose-built to serve patients who use a wheelchair or gurney during dental treatments. The school is also expanding care for cleft palate and craniofacial anomalies.

The Top Tier initiative is aimed at unifying the university’s health sciences programs.

UNLV researchers developed a method for extracting tooth root pulp that quadruples the number of stem cells that can be harvested and replicated to treat a variety of medical conditions.