BA/BS in Dental Hygiene

The programme trains dental hygienists to make independent clinical decisions while working within a team alongside dentists, dental assistants and public health specialists, covering oral health investigation, standardised evaluation of patients' needs and community-level oral health promotion. Compulsory subjects include general anatomy and physiology, oral anatomy, microbiology and histology, pharmacology, biochemistry and immunology, professional dental hygiene across three stages, epidemiology of oral diseases, pain management, orthodontics fundamentals and dental radiology. Professional practice, worth 45 credits, runs from preventive oral health care through introductory and advanced clinical dental hygiene to a final clinical placement, and the programme concludes with a thesis. The curriculum places particular emphasis on oral health promotion within the community, drawing on a Scandinavian model of oral disease prevention.