A THESIS ON SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY NEW AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL SHIKA ZARIA.
A THESIS ON SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY NEW AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL SHIKA ZARIA.
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Date
2014-02-04
Authors
RIFUKATU, ADEBUKUNOLA ABEKE ELELU
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ABSTRACT
Change in diet and especially the production of
European type of sweets, soft drinks and chocolates has
had an increasing adverse effect on dental health particularly
among younger people. Hence it comes as no
surprise that there is a rapidly growing demand for
Dentists and Dental Clinics all over the country.
Nigeria with a population of about 100 million, has
only four Dental schools non of which is of a standard
design, or has all the requirements of a standard dental
school. All the schools are located in the Southern part
of the country. Dental clinics attached to hospitals in
the Northern Nigeria are all service rather than teaching
oriented departments and the establishment of a Dental
School in the Northern part of the country is long overdue,
in order to redress the imbalance between North and
South also to meet the rising service demand throughout
the country.
The initial size of the proposed school is based on
an annual intake of between twenty and thirty students,
whose course of study will last five years. The scope
of the design include an Administrative block,Inception
area, record stores and dispensary for patients, Diagnostic
clinic four departments together with clinics and wards for
the treatment of patients and demonstration, students training
unit and Anci1]ary facilities.
The thesis aims at, planning the whole school to
provide possibilities for future expansion of most department
and clinics. It also aims at having the ground floor
designated mainly for patients, while the upper floor is
reserved exclusively for staff and students.
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The design will be flexible to enable the
University construct the new school in various phases
according to p r i o r i t i e s . A court-yard, type of buildingis
aimed at in solving many problems which are posed
by technical and climatic d i f f i c u l t i e s , such as insufficient
sunlight and ventilation as they are very
important in the dental clinics and the court-yard will
also be used to reduce long corridors.
From the research and analysis carried out, I hope
a standard school of Dentistry will be achieved
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DEPERTENT OF ARCHITECTURE
FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY
ZARIA
Keywords
SCHOOL,, DENTISTRY,, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,, TEACHING,, HOSPITAL,