<p>You should make absolutely sure that there’s not someone at USC who will take on the case.</p>
<p>Note there’s a distinction between the dental school practice (which is a clinical training environment), and the individual private practices of faculty. </p>
<p>It is pretty probable that the dental school will not take on cases like this for clinical training, which leads me to think that you were denied from that. Faculty have their own practices and would probably make their own choices with regards to what cases to take on.</p>