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The hospital was opened on 1 December 1858 as the Dental
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College of Surgeons was given a new charter in 1859 and introduced a dental qualification, the Licentiate in Dental Surgery in 1860. The College of Dentists founded their National Dental Hospital in
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at 31–36 Leicester Square. In the same year, King Edward VII awarded the title of Royal Dental
Hospital. The cost of the new building was funded by loans which were not repaid until 1930. The dental school was recognised as a school of the
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in 1911. At first the school only admitted men, but it agreed to admit women in 1915. The decision was reversed between 1933 and 1939. In 1948 the hospital became part of the St George's
Hospital Group under the National Health Act.
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