£2.5 million investment in Glasgow Dental Hospital and School

Dental services and teaching at the renowned Glasgow Dental Hospital and School have been given a major boost thanks to the completion of a £2.5 million refurbishment programme. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) have invested almost £2million on a significant project to modernise the hospital's restorative dental clinics and expand the central instrument decontamination unit. To complete the package of enhancements at the hospital The University of Glasgow have also invested £500,000 in transforming a traditional biochemistry laboratory into a state-of-the-art multi-media teaching facility. The new teaching suite is to be named the Dorothy Geddes Multi-media Facility in memory of the late Geddes, who was a pioneering dental surgeon and oral biologist and the first woman to hold a professorship in dentistry at a UK university. At a special event to officially open the new facilities NHSGGC Chairman Andrew Robertson said: "The importance of oral heath cannot be overestimated and I am delighted that these investments have further enhanced our ability to deliver high quality dental services to our patients. "The benefit of these investments will reach many thousands of dental patients treated each year. The newly refurbished and expanded decontamination unit will serve not only the dental hospital but also 17 community dental clinics in and around Glasgow offering the very highest standard of instrument decontamination available.