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The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology will beginning this academic year, run Dentistry as a full fee-paying programme. Addressing an Oath-Swearing and Induction ceremony of the School of Medical Sciences and Dental School, KNUST, in Kumasi the Vice-Chancellor, Professor William Otoo Ellis, said the decision was borne out of the escalating cost in training medical students. A total of one hundred and four (104) medical doctors and seven dental surgeons were inducted under the supervision of the Ghana Medical and Dental Council after taking the Hippocratic Oath. Professor Ellis indicated that, the enormity of pressure on the authorities to provide more avenues for medical training could be lessened with the active involvement of stakeholders, corporate bodies and philanthropists. Plans, he said, were underway for the construction of a classroom complex at the clinical students� hostel at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and that drawings covering the project have been completed. The Vice-Chancellor reminded the doctors that in order to attain optimal healthcare, it is imperative that they work in close collaboration with nurses, pharmacists, laboratory technicians and radiologists, as well as all other related health personnel. The Dean of the Dental School, Dr. Francis Adu-Ababio, commended the Schools of Dentistry, University of Utah and Michigan, in the United States.