The creation of a department of dentistry within the UFR Santé follows the government decision of 2 December 2021. Rouen is one of the 8 sites chosen "to direct healthcare professionals to the most fragile territories from the point of view of demography in dental surgeons and will achieve the ambitious target of 14 % increase in reception capacity in odontology training over the period 2021-2026 set by the national conference of 26 March 2021. The dual objective of the creation of these sites is “the strengthening of the provision of public dental care in health facilities” and the improvement of “the training of our health students as close to the territories and the networking of the professionals of tomorrow”. Normandy represents important living areas where the proportion of dental surgeons per capita is among the lowest in France. The observatory of the National Order of Dental Surgeons makes it possible to establish the following demographic observation (Table 1). Table 1: Demography of dental surgeons as of May 2, 2022 (ONCD) Practitioners Population Ratio/100000 hbts Upper Normandy Eure 212 593 885 35.7 Seine-Maritime 608 1 247 452 47.9 Lower Normandy Calvados 360 695 310 51.78 Channel 190 491 281 38.67 Orne 106 273 214 38.8 NORMANDIE 1370 3,305 200 41 FRANCE 43 900 65 627 254 66.89 The average age of practitioners in Normandy is 58 years. Thus, the upcoming retirement of many practitioners is an additional concern for the provision of dental care. The various installation support devices have not shown sufficient efficiency to respond to them. Incentives for students (assistance to the active internship and contract of engagement in public service (CESP)) are expensive, insufficiently effective and are ultimately aimed at students who have grown up in Normandy but who have been forced to study in Lille, Reims or Paris. There are already the “historical” dentistry services of Rouen (2011) and Le Havre (2012), Caen, then Evreux (2020). These pioneering services have provided an initial solution to this problem of dental demography. Indeed, there is a locoregional retention rate of about 57 % each year of students who have come on internships for 2 years in these services. The students were very satisfied with the clinical training offered on site, however there are several major points of difficulty in taking on outsourced clinical training from an extra-regional UFR. Indeed, outsiders are currently undergoing their theoretical training in Paris, Lille or Reims, UFR which have their organisation centered around regional hospitals. The problems are the coordination of teachings and clinical internships and the cut-off experienced by externals who find themselves straddling between two regions. Thus, the development of a department of dentistry within the University of Rouen Normandie will allow a great improvement in the training conditions of these students. Among the proposals of the report is a significant increase in the number of students to train in odontology with the objective of 6,400 students per year. This implies the creation of a university department of dentistry within the existing UFR health and in particular in Rouen. The five-year goal has been set at 255 students or 51 students per year in odontology at the University of Rouen Normandie.