title: A look back in time. The training of dental students in Sheffield before the opening in 1953 of the Charles Clifford Dental Hospital.
abstract: A review of the archive material held by the School of Clinical Dentistry at the University of Sheffield has revealed how the dental training facilities in Sheffield were arranged before the opening of the Charles Clifford Dental Hospital in 1953. The archive also provides an interesting insight into some of the priorities of dental training in the first part of the last century. This archive information was then supplemented by discussions with four local dentists who qualified in the late 1940s and early 1950s and provides some interesting personal reflections on what it was like to be a dental student during and immediately after the Second World War.
authors.affiliation: Primary Dental Care, University of Sheffield, School of Clinical Dentistry, Claremont Crescent, S10 2TX. k.h.fi gures@sheffi eld.ac.uk
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Figures
mesh_terms: D003796:Dental Service, Hospital / Q000266:history; D004497:Education, Dental / Q000266:history*; D004739:England; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D012575:Schools, Dental / Q000266:history*; D013335:Students, Dental / Q000266:history