title: [Dentistry and society].
abstract: In an editorial in the British Dental Journal (2007) E.J. Kay raised the question whether dentist-general practitioners have to be educated in dental schools affiliated with (academic) hospitals. Her hypothesis is that some 95% of graduating dentists enter in general practice and that the educational environment therefore should be there as well. In the present reaction it is argued that this is a bad idea because the complete separation of dental education from the academic medical environment would mean a drastic and undesirable limitation and impoverishment of the curriculum. At the same time it is not denied that outreach programmes in a dental school curriculum can be very meaningful.
authors.affiliation: Uit de afdeling Preventieve en Curatieve Tandheelkunde van het Universitair Medisch Centrum St Radboud in Nijmegen. a.plasschaert@dent.umcn.nl
authors.forename: A J M
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Plasschaert
mesh_terms: D003162:Competency-Based Education; D003479:Curriculum; D003813:Dentistry / Q000592:standards*; D004497:Education, Dental / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009426:Netherlands; D011364:Professional Practice; D012575:Schools, Dental / Q000592:standards*