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R Cutler. 1996-06-08. What is private practice?. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.4809102
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There are many similarities between dental education and treatment provision in the UK and Germany but also some important differences. V Hadden was interested to learn about the health care system in Germany, especially as the UK may soon follow European practice.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the level of student drop-out from UK dental schools and to establish if drop-out is increasing, remaining steady or decreasing. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of data from the University Statistical Record. SETTING: UK dental schools 1989-1994. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: The data covered all dental students entering and leaving dental schools during the relevant time period. RESULTS: The drop-out rate from UK dental schools between 1989 and 1994 ranged from 8.4% to 16.8% and is equivalent to the output of two to three medium-sized dental schools. Drop-out rate was higher in the three most recent years studied (1992-1994; 14.8%) than in the three earliest years studied (1989-1991; 10.6%). CONCLUSIONS: Student drop-out is a significant and increasing problem for UK dental schools. Unless controlled, it will result in fewer dentists qualifying in the UK and exacerbate shortages in qualified dentists that may occur in future years.
Although keenly interested and proficient in clinical dentistry, Vietnamese dental practitioners were not benefiting from new concepts in restorative dentistry, shut off to a great degree from the information surge. As senior lecturer and honorary consultant in restorative dentistry at the Turner Dental School, Dr Qualtrough was invited to Vietnam by the dean of the Ho Chi Minh City dental school to give a series of lectures on the theme of advances in restorative dentistry. Here she describes the experience of visiting this country of rapid change.