A guide to UK dentistry schools
Is it your dream to become a dentist? Are you searching for the best dentist education in the UK? If it is the case, you don’t want to spend your time searching and browsing through college websites. Read the following article and find out all the interesting facts that you should know about the best dental schools in the United Kingdom.
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University of Glasgow, Dental School
The Dental School of the University of Glasgow consists of four departments, namely: - Biological and Medical sciences Department - The Clinical Dentistry Department - The Community Oral Health Department - The Administration Department The Dental School of the University of Glasgow offers undergraduate and postgraduate dentistry courses as well as internationally renowned and widely respected research programmes in the fields of Primary Dental Care, Restorative Dentistry, Oral Surgery and Orthodontics.
University of Birmingham, School of Dentistry
The School of Dentistry of the University of Birmingham offers its students the following courses: - BDS courses - B.Med.Sc. courses - B.Sc. Hygiene and Therapy courses - MSc, MPhil and MSc programmes The University of Birmingham also offers research opportunities in the following fields: - Biomaterials (such as mechanistic research on adhesive and ceramic and tissue engineering scaffold materials) - Primary dental care (practice - based research) and tissue injury and repair (such as novel stem cell research - Dentine - pulp regeneration research - Research on the development of diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for periodontal diseases, patho – biology research).
St Bartholomew’s and The Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry
The School of Medicine and Dentistry of the St Bartholomew’s and The Royal London offer a vast variety of undergraduate and post graduate dentistry and medical degrees. The courses include:
- A five-year MBBS programme
- A four-year graduate entry MBBS programme
- A five-year BDS programme
- A four-year graduate enrty BDS programm.
Research opportunities
The School of Medicine and Dentistry also can offer its students a wide range of research opportunities in the field of dentistry.
University of Bristol, The School of Oral and Dental Sciences School
The School of Oral and Dental Sciences School of the University of Bristol is a leading UK teaching and research institution. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes (MSc in Dental Implantology, DPDS in Dental Studies, DDS in Orthodontics) as well as research opportunities in the fields of Applied Clinical and Material Sciences, Infection and Immunology and Epidemiology and Population Oral Health.