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ECU seeks a dental school: Greenville school cites lack of rural practices.
Byline: Jean P. Fisher
Oct. 18--East Carolina University wants to establish a dental school in Greenville to ease the state's chronic shortage of dentists in rural and under-served areas, but more North Carolina dentists are against the new school than for it. Some say dentists in the state -- most of whom trained at UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Dentistry -- may not want to see an upstart challenge their alma mater for students, faculty and scarce state resources. There also appears to be a more practical reason for the lack of enthusiasm: A new dental school would eventually pump as many as 50 new dentists a year into the existing market, creating competition for patients and, over time, making it harder to earn a good living. Dr. Rex Card, a Raleigh dentist who is president of the N.C. Dental Society, said when he started practicing in the early 1980s, North Carolina and many…
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