Liverpool University Dental Hospital

Delivering care for the community and preparing students for the future.

Liverpool University Dental Hospital (LUDH) is an integral part of the Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT) and forms one of the divisions of the Royal Liverpool Hospital site. Located on the main teaching hospital campus alongside the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, LUDH occupies a self-contained building on Pembroke Place, originally constructed in the late 1960s. It has undergone a series of major refurbishments in recent years that have significantly extended and upgraded its surgeries, teaching clinics, patient waiting areas, most recently the Restorative Dentistry department in 2018.

The LUDH provides a regional service to the inhabitants of Merseyside covering the full range of dental specialties including oral surgery, oral medicine, special care dentistry, restorative dentistry, orthodontics and paediatric dentistry. There is an oral diagnosis department which accepts limited numbers of patients for teaching purposes and operating facilities for day case patients requiring treatment under general anaesthesia. The hospital has approximately 160 dental units, including six 20-unit teaching clinics, consultation and teaching suites for all the dental specialties and its own dental technical laboratories.

There are approximately 65,000 outpatient attendances per year.

A team of 35 full-time, part-time and honorary consultants receive secondary and tertiary referrals from Cheshire and Merseyside and beyond, as well as participating in the training of dental undergraduates and junior staff.