Final-year students from the University of Plymouth’s Peninsula Dental School will work alongside specialists to provide care to patients who do not have an NHS dentist.
Bosses said there would be on the day appointments for people who experienced pain, infection and trauma.
Prof Robert Witton, chief executive of Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise and professor of community dentistry at the university, said there were “large numbers of people waiting to access dental care in Plymouth and the surrounding area” and the clinic “will go some way to addressing some of that need”.
Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise – a subsidiary of the University of Plymouth – has taken a 20-year lease on Plymouth City Council’s former First Stop Shop in New George Street.
Subject to planning permission being granted, bosses said it would be revamped into a £5m state-of-the-art practice.
