Dentistry

Dentistry comes with high job satisfaction, as you get to know and treat patients in your community, alongside a good salary, and long-term job prospects. The government needs more dentists working in the NHS, so there’ll likely be a job waiting if you want it when you graduate.

You could work up to consultant level – and a six-figure salary – or take your skills and work anywhere in the world.

As a dental student, you’ll gain lots of practical hands-on experience, applying a combination of medicine, science, people skills, and many other disciplines.

• Become an NHS dentist in your local town or city, and make a difference to people’s lives.
• Specialise in a key area of dentistry like paediatric, cosmetic and aesthetic, or orthodontics.
• Explore new and emerging scientific technologies, like artificial intelligence, to improve patient care and treatment.

• Foundations of dentistry
• Human health and disease
• Patient assessment
• Evidence-based practice
• Oral biology
• Peridontology
• Paediatric dentistry
• Digestive, renal, and endocrine systems
• Healthcare ethics and law

Study options

Options to study in this field include:

• undergraduate courses
• apprenticeships