UAE, July 28 -- Gulf Medical University's College of Dentistry has built something few institutions in the region can claim. 120 clinical dental chairs operate inside Thumbay Dental Hospital, the university's own accredited teaching hospital in Ajman, forming the backbone of a program designed entirely around clinical mastery.

Chair capacity is the quiet bottleneck of dental education worldwide. It determines how quickly students move from simulation to supervised treatment, and how deep their case experience runs by graduation. At GMU, the scale of the facility means students do not queue for clinical time. They progress through graded case complexity inside a functioning hospital, treating real patients under specialist supervision fro...