Dental Therapy and Hygiene King's College London

Overview

The BSc (Hons) Dental Therapy and Hygiene course at King's College London will train students to be safe beginner clinicians, prepared for registration with the GDC and employability as a dental therapist.  The programme is studied over three years full-time.  It offers a spiralled modular curriculum using a variety of inspiring evidence-based teaching and assessment methods.   

Key benefits

• Ranked 1st in the world for Dentistry (QS rankings 2020), the skills and experience of King's graduates are highly valued by practice employers.

• Co-train with Dentistry BDS students, learning from our highly experienced teaching staff.

• Rich practical experience with the diverse patient populations of King's College Hospital.

• Preparation for GDC registration and employment as a dental therapist/hygienist.

• Inter-disciplinary student-selected components - to acquire skills such as languages and business management.

• Outreach placements in South East London from year 2 for broad clinical and team-working experience.

Employability

The BSc (Hons) Dental Therapy & Hygiene programme embeds employability throughout teaching, learning and assessment which is critical to developing graduates that are ready to enter the healthcare workforce.   

Graduates have a breadth of career opportunities, from the more explicit, such as clinical service or academia, for example, in research and education in higher education institutions, through to the less well trodden.  These might include working in public health for government organisations, e.g. Public Health England and local authorities; regulation and quality assurance, e.g. working for the General Dental Council; or the third sector, e.g. the Oral Health Foundation; as well as private enterprise.