This Dental Public Health MSc is a dynamic course that challenges you to think critically about oral health at a population level. You’ll learn about topics such as the philosophy and principles of dental public health, the causes of dental health problems and how they occur and spread in communities, the methods you can use to control or prevent oral and dental diseases and how to promote oral health. You’ll look at how oral health services are organised and delivered and how to plan and evaluate oral health. You’ll also study social and behavioural sciences as well as research methods, epidemiology and statistics that you can apply to public health dentistry. Throughout this master’s in dental public health, you’ll consider research themes, including the social determinants of oral health inequalities, the burden of oral diseases on individuals and society, and health services research, including the dental workforce.

Key benefits

• Gain practical experience in dental public health by participating in teaching, research, informatics, health promotion and health services activities during placements.
• Build your knowledge of evidence-based prevention of oral disease at a population level.
• Develop technical skills in dental public health such as critical appraisal of evidence, designing oral health surveys, planning and evaluating dental programmes, devising research protocols and data management.
• Produce your own research project with a dissertation in a format that you can submit to scientific journals.
• Get additional preparation for the Diploma in Dental Public Health examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

“I decided to apply for a masters in Dental Public Health to enable me to acquire core knowledge of the subject - both academic and clinical aspects. My professors and lecturers are very dedicated and competent.”

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