New dental school officially opens in Wagga Wagga

The Wagga Wagga campus of Charles Sturt University's Community Dental and Oral Health Clinic was officially opened today. The Commonwealth Government has invested $19.6 million towards the construction and fit-out of the clinical school that includes two dental clinics with 24 chairs, a dental simulation laboratory, specialist dental teaching and research facilities, two IT lecture theatres and accommodation for 40 students.
The funding is part of a broader Government investment of more than $58 million for the university's dental school with sites in Albury, Bathurst, Dubbo, Orange and Wagga Wagga that will support 60 commencing student places each year across the five campuses.
The university says that the five sites will eventually deliver about 30,000 low-fee patient consultations to people in inland NSW and northern Victoria. The first students from the Wagga Wagga Dental Clinic are expected to graduate in 2014.