Dental Hygiene Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

Overview

The Dental Hygiene programme from The Lithuanian University aims to educate and train dental hygienists based on the requirements recognized in the EU.

Key Facts

To create possibilities for acquiring the qualification of a dental hygienist, granting the right to provide healthcare services, to foster interest in the novelties of the science and practice of oral health care, to develop creative, scientific, and critical thinking, and the sense of intellectual satisfaction from studies or work.

These aims of the Dental Hygiene Programme are directly related to the mission of the Programme – to educate and train dental hygienists who are capable of providing professional oral hygiene procedures and can cooperate with other health care specialists for ensuring individual and public health.

Career opportunities

• Continue your education by entering MSc programmes. Later PhD studies;

• Practice dental hygiene;

• Work in public or private institutions conducting oral health care or other related areas of oral health care promotion;

• Consult patients on issues of oral and dental diseasesꞌ prevention and healthy living preparing prevention programs for improving health maintenance factors;

• Work with diagnostic dental equipment, devices, instruments, and materials applying measures of infection control and methods for completing oral care procedures.