Student Experience

Get involved

The School of Dentistry’s wide variety of student organizations make it easy for you to find the right fit. Choose from groups that focus on general dentistry, public health, community outreach, or specific dental areas—and much more.

Find an organization

Share your skills

Service learning opportunities abound at the School of Dentistry. You might find yourself providing dental services to Amish children, treating underserved adults in Indianapolis, or traveling around the globe to bring oral health care to rural communities in other countries.

Explore service learning

Do your research

As a dentistry student, you’ll have the opportunity to conduct research with our renowned faculty. One feature of our research program is the IU School of Dentistry’s Research Day, an annual event highlighting the research advances of dentistry students, faculty, and staff.

Learn about student research

20+dentistry-related student organizations

50%of our students have experienced global service learning by graduation

40,000square feet devoted to research

Students paddle on the water in IUPUI’s annual Regatta.

You gotta Regatta

As a School of Dentistry student, you’re invited to join us for the annual IU Indianapolis Regatta event as a rower, a spectator, or a volunteer. We love to compete in the race each year, and our teams often come out on top. Come see what the fun is all about at this year’s Regatta.

Come see us in person

Plan your visit
Students at Indiana University School of Dentistry produced a short video to illustrate the highlights of the school.

Description of the video:


[Music] [Music] thank you [Music] hey guys my name is Aaron Garner and I'm Max woods and behind the cameras are good friend Evan Bruce and we're here to show you the best dental school in all of Indiana iusd let's go take a look come on everybody here we are right now in the library one cool fact that iusd is the only one of four Dental libraries in the whole entire country here we can study for group projects have a little study lounge where it can be private and just talk after a long day and just see what

we did check it out [Music] thank you [Music] and here we are in the Sim lab as you can tell it's very loud and there's a lot of dust blowing but this is where we work on our deniform it's attached to our little buddy here and we drill on them and this is where we build up those hand skills that we're going to need before we get into Clinic here we are in bench lab bench lab is where we do everything for making our Dentures to our very first activity in dental school which was waxing teeth

thank you foreign lab where we come to use these machines and the spaces to mix and get messy and make our plasters and all our stones and we have a bunch of trimming machines that we use to get everything down to the right shapes and sizes [Music] in 2018 the new Clinic Fritz Clinic MERS our old clinic and the new Clinic here we have the entrance to it where we have state-of-the-art technology for everything we do from General Dentistry to our graduate programs of all of the Specialties and with Onyx prosthodontics

perio and so much more let's go check out the new Clinic thank you foreign