21
September
2015
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21:30
Asia/Singapore

More patients can be treated at dental centre opening in 2019

The National University Centre for Oral Health, Singapore (NUCOHS), which will open in 2019 on the NUS Kent Ridge campus, will expand its scope from private patients to include subsidised patients, treating 500 patients a day. Three-quarters of the new NUCOHS building will be occupied by the NUS Faculty of Dentistry, which will increase its annual undergraduate intake from 54 currently to 80 students by 2021. The new centre will also facilitate research in a number of key areas, such as finding new ways to repair and regenerate soft tissue and bone.