The General Dental Council (GDC) has recently published its report on the visitations to the Undergraduate Dental Degree Programmes and Final Examinations in the United Kingdom.1 All the dental schools have breathed a collective sigh of relief as the current round has come to an end after each has been visited to assess the quality of its education, a process which the GDC has performed since its inception 50 years ago. The organisation for such a visitation involves a great deal of work on both sides. The school has to provide documentation, paper trails of its quality assurance procedures and be prepared for questions and interviews on the day. The visitors are asked to provide an in-depth written assessment of the course and the final examination which will eventually be published in the public domain. Sometimes it is necessary that the visitors have to revisit to see that standards are upheld, since there are only two gradings: sufficient or insufficient. It is to the credit of the UK schools that they were all graded sufficient, although this may not please the popular press who thrive on competition and league tables!