Dental school won’t fill the gap
The director of a £17.7million dental school in Aberdeen doesn’t believe that it will alleviate Scotland’s NHS dental woes.
Prof Jim Newton said the new school might not cut waiting lists because as soon as patient vacancies are filled more people will join the waiting lists.
NHS Grampian currently has more than 30,000 on its waiting list, and it has been suggested that 80,000 Scots don’t have access to a NHS dentist.
First Minister Alex Salmond will be officially opening the centre, which the Scottish government believe will help achieve their aim of bringing more people into the profession and cutting waiting lists.
Prof Newton said that many people realised that there is no care to have and so have not bothered joining waiting lists.
He claimed that more people would join waiting lists as soon as the new vacancies created by the centre were filled.
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