From the dental team and widening participation to the UCAT, the personal statement and interviews. Each guide names its source and the date it was last checked against it.
The General Dental Council registers seven titles, and only one of them needs a five-year dental degree. What each role does, how you get in, and which two open at sixteen.
Source: General Dental Council and others
Read guide: Dental Team Careers
Every UK and Ireland dental school’s widening access scheme, school by school — honestly, including where we couldn’t confirm the detail. Thirteen of the seventeen schools lower their grades for dentistry; Cardiff, King's and the two Irish schools do not. East Anglia, which is not in the Dental Schools Council's 2027 guide, is set apart.
Source: Each dental school and the Dental Schools Council
Read guide: Widening Participation & Contextual Offers, School by School
You get four choices. How to spend them, how each dental school actually uses your UCAT, and what sits behind the entry requirements.
Source: Dental Schools Council, 2027 entry
Read guide: Choosing Dental Schools
Abstract Reasoning was withdrawn in 2025. Three cognitive subtests plus the SJT, what each dental school actually does with your score, and a weekly rhythm that holds up.
Source: UCAT Consortium
Read guide: UCAT Prep Guide
UCAS replaced the single statement with three questions for 2026. What each one is asking, and the answer admissions tutors say they see far too much of.
Source: UCAS
Read guide: Personal Statement Template
MMI or panel, which school runs which, what they say they are assessing, and how to build a mock circuit without paying anyone.
Source: Dental Schools Council, 2027 entry
Read guide: Dental School InterviewsFrom official announcements, dated when published.
The government has confirmed 50 new dental training places from 2027, split evenly between the University of East Anglia and the University of Portsmouth — two universities now taking on new dentistry students as part of the first sustained expansion of dental school places in nearly 20 years.
The GDC's clinical Overseas Registration Exam will expand to 1,500 places. Together with the Licence in Dental Surgery route, the government expects that up to 2,400 more overseas-trained dentists could register each year from 2028–29.
Every guide names the source it is drawn from and the date it was last checked against that source. Where a school or a body has published nothing, the guide says so rather than inferring it. Written and checked by Dr Julius K. Babayemi. How we check this.