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Dentistry: Surgery

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 48992, tabled on 29 April 2025

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the existing Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon training pathway.

Answered on

6 May 2025

No assessment has been made. To become an oral maxillofacial surgeon, surgeons will need to meet the requirements of both the General Medical Council and General Dental Council, who are responsible for the standard of training for doctors and dentists respectively.

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