An evaluation of the perceptions of teaching and learning by members of the dental team at the chairside in one UK Dental School

As a hands-on clinical educational programme undergraduate dentistry is an anomaly in Higher Education. This study aimed to evaluate the perceptions of chairside teaching of dental team stakeholders including dental nurses dental students and dental tutors at a single UK dental school. From this sample the penetration of current learning and teaching innovations within Higher Education into the specialist filed of clinical dentistry could be evaluated.