HRH The Princess Royal opens UCL’s new dental institute

Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal opens UCL Eastman Dental Institute - The new UCL Eastman Dental Institute (EDI), complete with state-of-the art teaching and research facilities, has been formally opened by Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal. During a visit to the Institute today (Thursday 13 May) The Princess was given a guided tour of UCL's latest world-class facility, based within UCL Rockefeller building, which will be home to around 350 postgraduates and 60 PhD dental students, along with more than 120 academic, technical and professional services staff. A further 500+ dentists a year will also use the cutting-edge digital workstations to undertake specialist training as part of Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Speaking at the opening Professor Stephen Porter, Director of the EDI, said: "These facilities, together with our highly talented staff will enable the Institute to greatly advance our goal of improving wellbeing of all populations by delivering education and research relevant to oral health care." The UCL Eastman Dental Institute (EDI) has moved from Grays Inn Road to University Street at the heart of Bloomsbury, ensuring it remains close to UCLH Eastman Dental Hospital - one of Europe's largest hospitals specialising in complex oral health care and advanced ear, nose and throat treatments - which relocated to entirely new premises in Huntley Street in 2019. The investment in the creation of the new EDI's facilities both in Bloomsbury and the Royal Free Hospital, London, along with the Eastman Dental Hospital by UCLH NHS Foundation Trust totals over £130m - representing one of the greatest investments in education, research and clinical care (relating to oral health) in the world in the past two decades.