June 2015


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Dental Clinic for Arima

For 21 years, The UWI St. Augustine School of Dentistry, part of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, has been serving the community of Arima through The UWI Arima Dental Clinic located at the Arima Health Facility. The old facility has now been upgraded and The UWI formally unveiled the clinic on April 27, 2015.

At the ceremony, UWI St. Augustine Pro Vice-Chancellor and Campus Principal, Professor Clement Sankat acknowledged the work done by the pioneers of the School of Dentistry and credited them for paving the way to this state-of-the-art facility. The new clinic, previously housed in two locations within the Arima Health Facility, will operate Monday to Wednesday from 8.30am to 2.30pm and on Thursday, from 8am to noon. It is a walk-in adult clinic, providing services like extractions (by appointment), cleanings, fillings and other planned surgical procedures. All complex surgical cases, however, will still be referred to the School of Dentistry at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt. Hope.