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Article: DENTAL SCHOOL PLAN DEBATED FIRM'S OFFER TO PAY FOR NEW CU FACILITY IRKS SOME IN PROFESSION.(City Desk/Local)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- July 24, 2003
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Byline: Bill Scanlon
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
The plan to build a gleaming new $26 million dental school without taxpayer money is full of cavities, say some metro-area dentists and orthodontists.
The University of Colorado Dental School is selling its academic independence to get it, they say.
The Florida company that will pay for the new dental school also will pay the expenses of 12 of the 16 graduate students who will enroll in the school's two-year orthodontist program every year.
In return, those 12 must agree to give their next seven working years to Orthodontist Education Corp. And that, say the complaining dentists, means ...