Welcome to the Bachelor of Oral Health

Further information regarding details of your orientation can be accessed below. All students within the Bachelor of Oral Health must satisfy the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences Clinical Placement Compliance Policy prior to commencing clinical practice.

Please Note: The Orientation timetable may change as updates and availability of Staff or Presenters are confirmed. Students are encouraged to regularly check for updates, especially closer to the date.

As part of the course requirements students will also be expected to purchase specific instruments that they will use throughout their degree, beginning from first year orientation with a cost of approximately $5,000.

The Melbourne Dental School does not use the central University timetabling system, students enrolled in the Bachelor of Oral Health Program will be provided with a personal timetable during Orientation

Welcome to the Doctor of Dental Surgery

Further information regarding details of your orientation can be accessed below. All students within the Doctor of Dental Surgery must satisfy the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences Clinical Placement Compliance Policy prior to commencing clinical practice.

Please Note: The Orientation timetable may change as updates and availability of Staff or Presenters are confirmed. Students are encouraged to regularly check for updates, especially closer to the date.

As part of the course requirements students will also be expected to purchase specific instruments that they will use throughout their degree.

Welcome to the Graduate Diploma in Clinical Dentistry (Implants)

Further information regarding details of your orientation can be accessed below. All students within the Graduate Diploma in Clinical Dentistry (Implants) must satisfy the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences Clinical Placement Compliance Policy prior to commencing clinical practice.

Please Note: The Orientation timetable may change as updates and availability of Staff or Presenters are confirmed. Students are encouraged to regularly check for updates, especially closer to the date.

Students undertaking the Graduate Diploma in Clinical Dentistry (Implants) are also required to fill out the following Dental Health Services Victoria (DHSV) and Melbourne Dental Clinical (MDC) Credentialing forms, in order to be set up in both work places as a practitioner to commence seeing patients. This is both a course requirement as well as clinical requirement and students will not be allowed into the clinics without having submitted these forms.

Once students have completed all the relevant information they may submit it to Melbourne Dental School in the link below. All students must make every effort to submit these forms prior to the commencement of Orientation.

Welcome to Honours in Oral Health

Students undertaking the Bachelor of Oral Health (Degree with Honours) can learn advanced techniques in the following disciplines of Dental Therapy, Dental Hygiene, Oral Health Therapy and Health Promotion/ public health depending on your research project.

Students undertaking the Bachelor of Biomedicine (Degree with Honours) or Bachelor of Science (Degree with Honours) within the field of Oral Health are provided with opportunities for increasing depth of knowledge and expanding the theoretical basis on which research projects are developed. Students will be provided with opportunities to apply knowledge and technical skills in a supervised research environment as well as developing communication, problem-solving and critical thinking capacities, appropriate risk assessment and ethical approval processes.

Honours students will have a tailored orientation program based on the stream they apply for, and more information will be provided once selection is complete.

Welcome to the Doctor of Clinical Dentistry

Further information regarding details of your orientation can be accessed below. All students within the Doctor of Clinical Dentistry must satisfy the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences Clinical Placement Compliance Policy prior to commencing clinical practice.

Please Note: The Orientation timetable may change as updates and availability of Staff or Presenters are confirmed. Students are encouraged to regularly check for updates, especially closer to the date.

Students undertaking the Doctor of Clinical Dentistry are also required to fill out the following Dental Health Services Victoria (DHSV) and Melbourne Dental Clinical (MDC) Credentialing forms, in order to be set up in both work places as a practitioner to commence seeing patients. This is both a course requirement as well as clinical requirement and students will not be allowed into the clinics without having submitted these forms.

Once students have completed all the relevant information they may submit it to Melbourne Dental School in the link below. All students must make every effort to submit these forms prior to the commencement of Orientation.

Welcome to the Research Higher Degree program

Research Candidates can undertake extensive and exciting research within various fields including but not limited to Oral Infection and Immunity, Dental Materials, Forensic Bone Biology, Population Oral Health and Clinical Research.

The many valued members of staff, partners and collaborators support the desire to transform health systems and healthcare delivery, reduce the costs of those systems, and improve the lives of individuals and communities locally and globally.

RHD students will meet with their supervisors upon commencement and will complete the required induction processes. They will need to contact their supervisors for more information.