Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) - Course overview
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BDS Overview - Dental Practitioners fit for the future

The five Year Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) degree is a stimulating programme that's both pioneering and patient-centred. It's been developed to provide you with the highest level of core dental skills and knowledge you need for a hugely rewarding career as a dentist.

Through our BDS degree we offer students state-of-the art facilities and are committed to producing dental practitioners with clinical skills of the highest order and a strong sense of social awareness.


Benefits
  • You treat patients through partnership with the NHS Primary Care Trust
  • You become familiar with a variety of clinical situations
  • You prepare for a future career path through solving clinical problems
  • You become competent at diagnosing disease and planning preventive care
  • You choose your own areas of interest to study further
  • You have early clinical contact with a strong patient focus
  • You gain the core dental knowledge and communication skills you need to practise as a competent and caring dentist