UConn Begins Renovation For Cutting-Edge Educational Center

The University of Connecticut (UCONN) School of Dental Medicine is creating the Center for Prosthodontic Technology Integration (CpTi) to provide cutting-edge education on the digital technologies that will be vital to the dental practice and laboratory of the future. CpTi will have three integrated facilities—a research dental clinic, dental laboratory and educational facility—that provide students with the hands-on ability to work with a variety of CAD/CAM and rapid prototyping equipment in a commercial or clinical setting.

"Working in partnership with industry and other schools within the University, CpTi's vision is to create an experiential learning environment, a place where dentists and technicians can test and compare technologies before they make a purchase. Our goal is to bring academia and business together in a common platform and have a combination of income streams to ensure sustainability of CpTi," explains Bob Kelly, DDS,...