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UCL Dental University - why did it stop

I want to apply to dentistry courses in London, and discovered that UCL stopped doing dentistry. Is this true, and if so, why?
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Original post by SmileyChap
I want to apply to dentistry courses in London, and discovered that UCL stopped doing dentistry. Is this true, and if so, why?


As far as I'm aware 'The Eastman Dental Hospital' - the dental hospital that is associated with UCL and University College Hospitals London NHS trust has never been an undergraduate dental school. They are however a very well known postgraduate centre of education and offer PhD/Masters/Diplomas/Certificates and CPD in pretty much all areas of dentistry.

If you want to study dentistry as an undergraduate in London you have two choices - Kings and Barts (Queen Mary).
In London, only Kings and Queen Mary offer dentistry.

The government decided to shut down a number of dental schools and hospitals a few decades back (can't recall which one exactly) because they incorrectly assumed that the future population of Britain would have better oral hygiene and care and thus less need of dentists.

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