Founding Spirit
To acquire specialized knowledge and skills in dental medicine, to cultivate a caring attitude, and to attain the spirit of social service with a strong sense of responsibility in the pursuit of philanthropy and public interest.
Five Basic Goals
- Improve branding to attract students
- Improve scholastic performance
- Improve teaching
- Focus on cultivating caring attitude
- Focus on faculty development
Three Additional Goals
- Expand student abilities to conduct international exchange
- Boost graduate school performance
- Improve research capabilities
Educational Policy of the School of Dentistry
Our educational policy follows the general educational objectives and policies prescribed in Japan's Fundamental Law of Education. Our objective is to produce dental practitioners who are also well-balanced individuals capable of applying everything they learn at the university. To achieve this, we focus both on academic scholarship relating to dentistry that involves in-depth research and teaching of theory and techniques in specialist fields, and provide students with the knowledge, skills, and moral principles that a dentist needs in the real world.
Accordingly, students of the university must have aptitude and potential to be a dentist and study in line with this educational policy. The aptitudes needed to be a dentist are summarized in the three items below.
Suitable ability
The intellectual and scholastic ability needed to understand dentistry theory and techniques and the technical aptitude to put them into practice
Suitable personality
A sense of responsibility as a dentist, with a dentist's outlook on society, a broad world view, attitude, will, and other facets of character
Suitable physical strength
The stamina and energy to do the physical work required of dentists
To be a dentist, one cannot have one aptitude but lack another. All three aptitudes listed above are essential. Over the course of the university's integrated six-year program these crucial aptitudes are cultivated while all the time maintaining respect for the individual personality of each student. The goal of our educational program is, ultimately, to produce capable dentists who possess a rich, human warmth.
Objectives of Education and Research
School of Dentistry
We aim to widely provide knowledge in dentistry required to be a dentist, teach theory and techniques deeply in specialized areas, help develop intellectual, moral, and applied abilities, contribute to the creation and development of culture, as well as to develop human resources who demonstrate the founding spirit, philanthropy and public interest.
Faculty of Health Sciences
Department of Oral Health Science
We aim to develop human resources who not only have excellent skills as a dental hygienist but also are motivated to contribute to oral health, think about the measures to improve the health of the entire body through oral health, contribute to the development of dental care in the future, and eventually demonstrate the founding spirit, philanthropy and public interest.
Department of Oral Health Engineering
We aim to develop human resources who not only have excellent skills as a dental technician but also are motivated to contribute to oral health, work on new dental care techniques with the knowledge of healthcare, welfare, and engineering, contribute to the development of dental care in the future, and eventually demonstrate the founding spirit, philanthropy and public interest.