Maine University dental clinic set for 3 million dollar renovation
The University of Maine’s dental clinic is set for a huge renovation, it has been announced. The clinic, which is located on the Bangor campus, will be dramatically transformed by a modernisation project, which will cost around three million dollars. The University of Maine Board of Trustees gave the project the green light and building will commence soon.
The university will fund two thirds of the project and financial backers and additional funding will be used to pay for the remaining costs; the Board has been raising money and arranging financial support for the project over the course of the last ten years and officials are delighted that the project has finally got the go-ahead.
Programme Coordinator, Diane Blanchette, said that the dental school has outgrown the current facility; the money will be used to renovate the interior of the facility and make better use of the space. The new clinic will be set up like a traditional dental practice so that patients will enter the building and be directed to the appropriate area. New instruments and sophisticated technology and equipment, including computers and digital X-ray machines, will also be purchased.
Students at the dental school are thrilled with the news and cannot wait to get into the new facility; students and professors are also hoping that patients will be attracted to the facility, which will give students real-life experience, as well as being beneficial for the community.
Building will start soon and it is hoped that the facility will be ready in time for the new intake of students next autumn.
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