Bachelor of Oral Health

Bachelor

Oral health is an essential component of a healthy life. Complex dental work contributes to this, but proper care and prevention are just as important.While dentists perform specialised treatments, oral health therapists have broad expertise in general oral health care and education.

Key details

Degree Type

Bachelor

Duration

3 years full-time

Course Code

314701, 036335B

Intake Months

Feb

International Fees

$63,000 per year / $189,000 total

About this course

Advocate for oral health

Oral health is an essential component of a healthy life. Complex dental work contributes to this, but proper care and prevention are just as important.

While dentists perform specialised treatments, oral health therapists have broad expertise in general oral health care and education.

Study locations

North Terrace

North Terrace Campus

What you will learn

Our Bachelor of Oral Health is an evidence-based degree that prepares you for providing general oral health care and health promotion. You will:

learn in Australia's newest dental teaching hospital, in the state-of-the-art Adelaide Health and Medical Sciences building
study within a close-knit oral health learning community
benefit from early clinical exposure and extensive placements
practise using equipment in our Dental Simulation Clinic
tackle real-life case scenarios in teams
improve lives through community outreach programs.

Career pathways

You will be part of providing high quality clinical care for all ages. You might develop hygiene maintenance programs for people managing chronic gum pain. You could advise on public health policy or design and implement educational campaigns. Perhaps you'll open an oral health clinic with a team of oral health therapists and dentists you're yet to meet at the University of Adelaide.

Medicine and dentistry admission information session

Tuesday 7 May, at 6.00pm

Join us in person or online to have all your questions answered about admission into our medical and dental programs.
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Note:
This degree is only available in blended mode and on-campus attendance is required. if you are a continuing student in the degree and are unable to attend campus, please contact your program coordinator for program advice.

Ranked 33 globally for dentistry^
16.7% industry growth predicted in Australia by 2025
Train alongside future dentists

^ QS World University Ranking by Subject, 2023

Course structure

The curriculum of the Bachelor of Oral Health has an overall educational approach centred on case-based learning, small group learning and self-directed learning. The emphasis on learning relevant scientific information throughout the degree occurs concurrently with the development of clinical skills. Case-based scenarios aim to provide a realistic context for student learning and have been designed to integrate with material presented in the four focus areas in a coordinated approach.

Students are introduced to dental scenarios from day one and have hands-on experience of many aspects of clinical dentistry during the first semester of first year. This learning approach develops problem solving strategies, a disciplinary knowledge base and professional skills. Students play an active role as a problem solver confronted with an issue/patient scenario, which mirrors a real-world situation. In many examples, the students study real-life cases.

From first year, students will undertake compulsory clinical placements in a range of settings, including community dental clinics located in metropolitan Adelaide and rural South Australia.

There are four focus areas in the Bachelor of Oral Health that continue throughout the three year degree:

Dental and Health Science
Human Biology
Clinical Practice
Professional Studies

An Oral Health research project is undertaken by students in third year and provides the opportunity to focus on a major area of interest that will enhance a student's role as an oral health professional.

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Health Services & Support courses at University of Adelaide.

81.7%

Overall satisfaction

86.4%

Skill scale

68.1%

Teaching scale

53.7%

Employed full-time

$54k

Average salary

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