Place Category: Education & Training
Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise is a community interest company launched in September 2013 – that has combined Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry’s Dental Education Facilities and all its community activity under one umbrella.
The four facilities – two in Plymouth and one each in Exeter and Truro – were created to give dental students experience of treating NHS patients under the supervision of qualified dentists. The focus of Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise is on teaching and training; research; community engagement; workshops; providing dental treatment; education about oral health; and other related activities. The benefits to the wider community are improved oral health and education and a reduction in oral health inequalities. The concept has been so successful that more than 10,000 people in Devon and Cornwall now have access to NHS dental care where they may not have done so before, making a real impact on oral health improvement in the South West.
The Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry Dental Community Development Team is instrumental in ensuring that groups in the community who may not have had access to NHS dental care before, receive it.
The team works with a range of organisations, from schools to nursing homes, prisons to rehabilitation units, and groups that represent people with particular medical conditions, arranging visits to the Dental Education Facilities, oral health awareness activities in the field and ensuring that the barriers stopping certain people getting NHS dental care are removed. The team also organises special study units, which see dental students carrying out projects with community groups to mutual benefit – a vital and innovative part of student training.ools of Medicine and Dentistry Dental Community Development Team is instrumental in ensuring that groups in the community who may not have had access to NHS dental care before, receive it.
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