A £3 million state-of-the-art dental facility has recently been opened in Dundee.

The Dundee Dental Education Centre provides a flagship facility and a focus for education and training for dentistry in the East of Scotland. The Centre has been created within the Frankland Building on the University of Dundee campus, which is now joined by a physical link to the neighbouring Dundee Dental Hospital and School.

The facility will provide postgraduate dental education and clinical skills training for all dental professionals and will also support pre-registration training for dental nurses as well as undergraduate education.

The most striking feature in the new centre is a ‘phantom heads’ clinical skills area for both postgraduate and undergraduate training. This unit comprises 38 fixed student simulators with phantom heads and fully integrated audiovisual facilities, allowing advanced hands-on training.

Mrs Ann Markham OBE, Chair of NHS Education for Scotland said, ‘Dentists and dental care professionals will benefit from training which is based on the quality evidence-based guidelines which are being produced by the Dental Clinical Effectiveness Group based at the centre. Tutors there will use these guidelines, along with sound educational principles, to deliver training to an expanding client base.’