The Glasgow Dental Hospital and School is a dental

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, situated in the

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area of the city centre of

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, Scotland.

History

The Glasgow Dental School was formed as part of

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in 1879. It moved to Dalhousie Street in 1903. The current hospital is a category B listed

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building with its entrance on Renfrew Street, which was designed by Wylie, Wright and Wylie and completed in 1931; in 1928 a football tournament was held between the local teams explicitly to raise funds for its construction, won by

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and providing £819 (equivalent to around £50,000 90 years later). The Dental School began issuing the Bachelor of Dental Surgery Degree of the

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in 1948. A large extension fronting

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was completed in the brutalist style by Melville Dundas & Whitson in 1970. The Glasgow Dental Education Centre, which is located adjacent to the Dental School, provides post-graduate and distance dental education.

References

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