Howard University | College of Dentistry

Howard University College of Dentistry is located at Suite 2005, 600 W Street Northwest in Washington DC's 20059 zip code — the Howard University campus in the Shaw and LeDroit Park neighborhood of Northwest DC. Howard University is one of the nation's historically Black universities (HBCUs) and among the most academically prestigious, with a College of Dentistry that has graduated African American dental professionals since the late nineteenth century. The college occupies a significant position in the history of Black professional education and dental access in the United States.

A dental school clinic provides patient care through dental students under direct faculty supervision, which carries important implications for patients: treatment is thorough, treatment times are longer than a private practice visit, and costs are typically lower than market rate. Howard's dental school clinic serves both the mission of training future dentists and the practical goal of providing affordable dental care to the DC community — particularly the surrounding Shaw, LeDroit Park, and Howard University campus population, and the lower-income DC residents who may lack access to private dental practices.

The College of Dentistry's services cover the full scope of general and specialty dental care that dental students need to complete their clinical training: preventive examinations, cleanings, restorative treatments, endodontics, periodontics, oral surgery, prosthodontics, pediatric dentistry, and orthodontics. Patients who establish care at a dental school clinic accept the trade-off of longer visit times in exchange for the comprehensive care and lower costs that the training environment provides.

The 600 W Street NW address is on the Howard University campus, accessible from the Shaw-Howard University Metro station on the Green and Yellow lines. For DC patients who want affordable, comprehensive dental care through the Howard University dental training program — and who support the HBCU mission — this college clinic provides both accessible care and direct contribution to the pipeline of Black dental professionals in the United States.