Queen opens Brirmingham Dental School
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- Published: Wednesday, 25 November 2015 07:41
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Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, unveiled a commemorative plaque at an official ceremony ofthe new Birmingham Dental Hospital and School of Dentistry at Pebble Mill, Edgbaston. Following the ceremony, staff are working to prepare the building for its operational opening for public early in 2016.
The four-storey building will provide a range of high quality clinical dental services for the public in one wing, while a second wing will offer world-class research facilities and a modern learning environment for more than 600 undergraduate and postgraduate students and trainees each academic year, at a cost £50 million.
The site was home to the BBC’s Pebble Mill Broadcasting Centre from November 1971, until its closure in 2004. It then remained unused until construction work to build the new dental hospital and school began in September 2013, following full planning permission in December 2012. The development replaces the 50-year-old dental hospital at St Chad’s Circus.
Professor Philip Lumley, head of the School of Dentistry at the University of Birmingham said:
“This new building will be a state-of-the-art home for our world-class teaching and research. Not only will the people of the city and region be able to access first-class treatment within this building, but we will be training the dental team of the future right here as well. This educational offering combined with the ground-breaking research which is carried out by our staff will allow us to develop further innovations to underpin the oral and dental health of the region and beyond.”
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