Sir, I have decided to apply for medicine with the purpose of following a career in oral and maxillofacial surgery.

As part of the process I spent time researching which universities welcome applications from dentists. The responses were varied. Most institutions were welcoming and understanding and accept dentists on to graduate entry courses. However an admissions tutor for one of the Cambridge University colleges informed me that: 'Dentistry degrees do not have honours status and are unclassified and therefore ineligible.'

They require the equivalent of a 2.1 science honours degree, which apparently a BDS is not. I graduated from GKT where we did not receive honours but gained a distinction for the separate sections of final examinations.

This seems to me a great shame that Cambridge are ruling out applications from dentists. This also leads me to conclude that they have no interest in training any oral medicine or maxillofacial consultants of the future.