oral pathologist and founding dean of the UCLA School of Dentistry, commented on the significance of the school's formation in a 1977 New England Journal of Medicine article:There was a time when the mouth, relatively speaking, was considered a scientific "no-man's land." That was when dental education fell between academic chairs--literally between the eyes, ears, nose and throat. In the United University School of Dental Medicine, DMD '76 * No-Hee Park, former Dean, UCLA School of Dentistry, DMD '82 * Peter J. Polverini, former Dean, The University of Michigan School of Dentistry, DMSc, Oral Path * Michael S. Reddy, Dean, University of California San Francisco, DMD '86, DMSc '89, Perio '89 * Ray C. Williams, former Dean, Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine, Cert. Perio '73 * J