With the $120 million expansion and addition of the Koury Oral Health Sciences building in 2012, the Adams School of Dentistry is now nearly 500,000 square feet, making it the largest dental complex in the United States.

UNC also has a student-run clinic for members of the surrounding community in need of emergent dental services.

For the out of state students, the average GPA and DAT were augmented at 3.7 and 24 AA respectively, giving UNC one of the most competitive admissions rates nationwide.

[7] The UNC-CH Adams School of Dentistry consistently ranks among the nation's top 10 dental schools in NIH funding, and its programs in orofacial pain, oral-systemic relationships, health policy and education, fundamental mechanisms of disease, clinical therapeutics, and other areas of oral and craniofacial health science make it a center of basic, translational, and clinical research.

[9] As of March 2023, the Adams School of Dentistry was granted the "approval without reporting requirements" status by the Commission on Dental Accreditation.