UCLA School of Dentistry Introduces Refreshed Website

The UCLA School of Dentistry has significantly enhanced the user experience for its online home with a refreshed website, dentistry.ucla.edu, which launched in late February 2025.

Among the numerous improvements site visitors will encounter are:

• Expanded search functionality with detailed metadata and sortability, including within the School’s personnel directory
• User-friendly, easy-to-find information on the School’s 19 clinics, with Google MyMaps integration
• A reimagined D.D.S. course catalog section with complete descriptions and sorting options, including curriculum by class year and by dental specialty
• An enhanced School events section with both list and calendar view options
• Greater multimedia integration, including photo and video-rich news articles (example)

“In tandem with our drive to advance oral health care is our need to evolve technologically,” said UCLA School of Dentistry Dean and Professor Paul H. Krebsbach. “This robust, user-friendly website will better provide essential information to key stakeholders including prospective students, residents, patients, alumni and donors, and fellow members of the scientific community, in addition to those operating cross-functionally within the School.”

The School of Dentistry’s website refresh project was led by Director of Communications Ben Alkaly, in collaboration with UCLA Health Information Technology and the Dean’s Office Digital Strategy Team. The new Dentistry website is part of the DGSOM enterprise web infrastructure called the Web Platform.

This site migration aligns Dentistry’s online identity with other UCLA Health entities, including the David Geffen School of Medicine and School of Nursing.