Looking forward: educating tomorrow's dental team

This publication reports a meeting of the stakeholders of dental in the UK, hosted by the Council of Heads and Deans Dental Schools (CHDDS). The meeting, held in Manchester, on 4–5 October 2007, occurred within days of the seventh of a dental hospitals and schools policy retreat by the then Council of Deans of Dental Schools and the for Dental Hospitals. The proceedings of the retreat, to raise awareness and stimulate discussion on matters to the planning of the future provision of dental education the UK, were published in the form of a supplement the European Journal for Dental Education (1). principal purpose of the meeting of stakeholders of dental reported in the present publication was to raise and discussions on issues considered important to the further of dental education in the UK. A secondary, by no means less important purpose of the meeting was to members of the CHDDS opportunity to interact with other in dental education and, in the process, facilitate a understanding of existing and, in certain respects increasing and challenges in the UK dental education system.