Bachelor of Science - Oral Health Sciences

A degree in Oral Health Sciences allows students to register as a dental hygienist and therapist. They’ll become a skilled professional who is part of the dental team. Dental therapists care for oral health by preventing disease, promoting healthy lifestyles and treating gum disease and dental decay.

Students will learn the fundamentals of the sciences that support dentistry and how they apply to clinical situations. They'll be practicing skills in a simulated clinical environment and by the end of the first semester they will be ready to meet their first patients. Students will be able to communicate professionally with them, understand their health issues and treat gum disease.

Students will also have the opportunity to work on Thiel cadavers. The Thiel method of embalming preserves cadavers with life-like flexibility and tissue quality. In the annual Discovery Week students get to explore a topic of their own choice. It gives students time away from normal teaching activities to explore a dental topic, in areas of science such as:

Dundee's curriculum is integrated with the 4D dentistry curriculum (4D stands for Dentistry at Dundee, Driven by Discovery). This means that for the first two years students will largely learn, practice, and be assessed together with dental students.