Health Secretary Andy Burnham recently visited the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust to officially open the Dental Hospital's new facility.
The Dental Hospital has recently received an investment of £6 million to improve dental education and services and the facility now has a new minor oral surgery area and dedicated facilities for patients with special needs and those who are medically compromised. This includes special wheelchair facilities and specially designed sedation suites.
The upper three floors include laboratories that are capable of supporting world class research into the prevention and treatment of dental diseases. These integrated facilities should enable scientific developments at Liverpool to impact directly on teaching and patient care.
The Health Secretary said, 'The investment in patient services means the Trust now boasts excellent dental care for patients with special needs as well as top class educational facilities for the dentists of the future.'
Professor Sir Howard Newby, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool, said, 'The hospital has made significant contributions to health, research and education for more than 100 years and today is home to one of Europe's largest facilities for training dentists. This new development will help build on its pioneering history and bring researchers and clinicians together for the benefit of patient care.'
The Dental Hospital provides a range of specialist services for the local community including minor oral surgery, restorative dentistry, paediatric dentistry, orthodontics, oral surgery, oral medicine and special care dentistry.
