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team of clinical faculty and instructors who specialize in their own dental fields. Dental clinical services are equipped with ultra-modern dental technology, which may handle any dental case ranging from a routine dental check to tooth whitening procedures and advanced dental implant surgery. Students, faculty, tutors, dental hygienists, nurses, dental technologists, dental radiographers, and CSSD technicians make up the professional team, which ensures a pleasant experience for every patient visiting our Academic Dental Center.
The Department of Oral and Craniofacial Health Sciences delivers its curriculum using a problem-based learning approach, as well as formal lectures. The Department offers dynamic and innovative learning and teaching opportunities across three specializations that represent the core basis of the dental practice.
for each PBL( problembased learning) case. This occurs concurrently with the development of clinical skills in various technical and clinical areas of dentistry, which begins as soon as a student enters the Dental Clinical Practice stream.
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS
Bachelor of Dental Surgery
This program, developed in collaboration with the University of Adelaide in South Australia aims at establishing a regional center of excellence in dental education appropriate to the dental needs of the United Arab Emirates and the region.
The program encourages and nurtures multicultural education in a highly competitive environment to equip you with the necessary knowledge, skills
and values to face today’ s era of globalization, and gain education without borders and the power of knowledge to become lifelong learners.
Human Biology provides you with an overview of the biology of the human species, a basic knowledge of classical and molecular genetics, and an introduction to the anatomy of the human body at the gross and histological levels.
Dental and Health Science emphasizes the scientific basis of dentistry and covers oral anatomy, preventative dentistry, and the dentistpatient relationship.
General studies are available to students during their first and second years and include aspects of basic chemistry, basic physics, biostatistics, communication and learning, computing, the social context of dentistry, and evidence-based dentistry.
These three streams are integrated to form the basis
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