This five-year degree is designed to help you build the skills needed to become a dental professional. The Institute of Dentistry at Queen Mary University of London offers a new and innovative curriculum, covering the care of the mouth, including the prevention and treatment of dental diseases, screening for oral cancers, managing trauma, orthodontics, and oral surgery. Throughout the programme, you will develop your academic, clinical, professional, and personal skills, putting into practice your communication and teamwork abilities while delivering supervised dental care. You will gain experience collaborating with dental professionals and broader healthcare teams, demonstrating the expertise, competencies, and ethical behaviours essential to qualifying as a safe and capable practitioner.

Our location in east London means you will serve a population of great diversity and encounter a wide range of disease, including some of the more unusual oral cancers. You will be exposed to patients early on, and as you progress through your studies, you will gain hands-on experience at our outreach clinics in Canary Wharf, Stratford, and our newest centre in Homerton.

We encourage you to take a holistic approach to dentistry by studying the human sciences along with your core dentistry modules – including sociology and psychology – to examine patients’ attitude to oral healthcare and the dental profession.

The Dental Schools Council has published a guide to the core values and attributes needed to study dentistry, which we recommend you read before making your application.

More information about the course including entry requirements and selection criteria.

Our undergraduate dental curriculum incorporates the General Dental Council’s (GDC) Safe Practitioner framework of behaviours and outcomes for dental professional education which is effective from 2025. The dental curriculum has been reviewed and co-created with students with the aim of ‘Opening the doors of opportunity to serve our patients by producing outstanding Dentists, Therapists and Dental Care professionals of the future’. The curriculum embodies what is expected by the GDC with the domains listed below running through each year of the course:

•    Clinical knowledge and skills.
•    Interpersonal skills.
•    Professionalism.
•    Self-management.

Applicants should be aware that the government plans to make it a requirement for newly qualified dentists to practice in the NHS for a minimum period, as announced in the 10 Year Health Plan for England. This requirement is expected to apply to individuals entering a dental course of study from academic year 2027/28. More information is expected from the Department of Health and Social Care in due course.