Facilities
The School of Dentistry and Health Sciences’ $64.1 million state-of-the-art teaching facilities and dental clinics will play a major role in helping improve the oral and systemic health of people in regional NSW, across the nation and the world.
The facilities include pre-clinical at Orange (B Dental Science) and Wagga Wagga (B Oral Health – Therapy/Hygiene) as well as Dentistry and Oral Health Clinics at each of the five major CSU campuses: Wagga Wagga, Orange, Albury-Wodonga, Bathurst and Dubbo.
The Dentistry and Oral Health Clinics at Wagga Wagga and Orange are completely paperless with digital dental x-ray machines providing immediate x-rays at patient cubical. They both feature a ‘dream room’ with the most technologically and ergonomically advanced dental chair and equipment on the market supplied and maintained by world renowned innovators and dental clinic suppliers Henry Schein Halas.
Orange Campus
Located close to the campus entrance, the new dentistry facility on the ground floor comprises a 24 chair Dentistry and Oral Health Clinic including a private practice area with support staff facilities. It also houses the extraordinary 60 place simulation clinic.
The first floor includes general and specialist teaching spaces including a 32 place dental technology/clinical support laboratory, biodental science learning suite, lecture theatres, seminar and scenario rooms as well as administrative staff offices, postgraduate and research facilities, a common room and a meeting room. The anatomy teaching facilities, including a PC2 teaching laboratory and a dry (computer) laboratory, are located on the top floor.
In addition to these outstanding new facilities, the Orange Campus is now home to a Learning Commons which is a vibrant new learning space set up to encourage collaboration and support of new methods of teaching and learning in conjunction with the library. Further new facilities include a large lecture theatre which enables cross-disciplinary groups to receive lectures together and even further development currently taking place is the new student residential complex which will be completed for the 2010 intake.
Wagga Wagga Campus
The new dentistry facilities on Wagga Wagga Campus comprises a two-storey building which houses the 24 chair Dental and Oral Health Clinic with both open and enclosed settings located on the ground floor. The ‘front of house’ includes a patient waiting room, reception and patient counseling/liaison room, while the ‘back of house’ contains the clinic manager’s office, sterilisation rooms, staff, student and technical support areas and storage rooms.
Staff offices are located on the first floor and includes the School reception and meeting rooms. This level also houses the research facilities for staff and postgraduate student use and a 20-place simulation laboratory with phantom heads for teaching pre-clinical skills plus the teaching areas including a specialist science teaching laboratory, lecture theatres, seminar and scenario rooms.