The College of Dentistry is relatively a newly established faculty at Kuwait University, established vide an Amiri Decree in 1996, which paved the way for requisite groundwork for raising an internationally compatible Dentistry facility and program. The faculty’s mission is to promote oral and general health in Kuwait through education, research and cooperation with other professional health institutions and authorities, as well as the community at large. The faculty is committed to providing leading professionals and experts in oral health in Kuwait through teaching, training, research and clinical practice. The Faculty is an integral part of the Health Sciences Centre (HSC), offering a six-and-a-half years program, with the Dental students continuing their studies together with the medical students for two-and-a-half years in the Faculty of Medicine, taking courses in Oral Anatomy, Oral Microbiology, Oral Pathology, etc., and from the 9th to the 13th semesters, the students study the clinical education program in Dentistry.

The Faculty is presently operating from its administrative office at Hawally, with few offices located at the Health Sciences Centre, fourth floor. The temporary dental clinic, located near Kuwait Dental Association, started functioning in 2002, and a temporary laboratory is located on the 5th floor of the HSC car park at Jabriya. The permanent University Dental Clinic is under construction near Mubarak Al Kabeer Hospital, and is expected to be ready by 2005.

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