The history of the developments in Dental Education in the British Isles is discussed starting in the middle of the eighteenth century with the work by John Hunter, and many to the present day. Stress is laid in the preservation of these improvements in both undergraduate and postgraduate education and the needs for close contact with bodies outside of orthodontics.
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