American Dental Education Association

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The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) is a non-profit organization that works to further the education of dental professionals and the advancement of academic dental programs in Canada and the United States. Founded in 1923 as the American Association of Dental Schools,^[1] ADEA is based in Washington, D.C.

The ADEA membership includes:

• all 76 U.S. and Canadian dental schools,
• over 800 allied and advanced dental education programs
• sixty-six corporations working in oral health education.
• over 20,000 faculty, staff, deans, program directors and students