The BDS and its nine modules
Dundee Dental Hospital and School is a ten-storey tower on Park Place, on the city campus. Dundee is the only UK university to teach anatomy with Thiel soft-fix embalming, and its phantom head theatre has 38 simulators.
Clinical sessions dominate the timetable from Level 3. In the final year you spend about 70 days on outreach, at centres including Kings Cross in Dundee, Arbroath, Cupar, Kirkcaldy, Perth, Aberdeen and Inverness.
The nine modules, in Dundee's order
- Modules 1–2 · Patients
Simulation, then patients
Skills in simulation, then histories, examinations and preventive advice.
Dental hospital - Modules 3–4
Restorations
Fillings and local anaesthesia, then more varied treatments and patients.
Clinic-led - Modules 5–6
Children and surgery
Child patients, oral surgery, dentures, crowns and root treatment.
Clinic-led - Modules 7–8
Advanced care
Root treatment of back teeth, replacing teeth, and sedation.
Implants observed - Module 9
Integrated care
Integrated Oral Care clinics, with outreach in the first semester.
BDS
Entry requirements and how to apply
A-level route
At the first sitting; resits are not accepted. GCSE English and Maths at B/6 or above, without retakes. No minimum UCAT score.
Highers route
Highers AAAAB, or AAABB for applicants who meet Dundee's contextual criteria.
Multiple mini-interviews
In person for UK applicants, about 60 minutes, between December and January.
Contextual offers
Dundee makes contextual offers on Highers. See how it compares with the other dental schools.
Clinical training and outreach
Outreach across Scotland
About 70 days in the final year, at centres from Kings Cross in Dundee to Arbroath, Cupar, Kirkcaldy, Perth, Aberdeen and Inverness.
Phantom head theatre
38 simulators for clinical skills, and anatomy taught on Thiel soft-fix embalmed tissue.
A PVG disclosure check (£59 for full membership through Dundee's online store) and blood-borne virus testing, listed at £40. Hepatitis B vaccination is arranged with NHS Tayside.
The school and its intake
Published odds
Dundee publishes its admissions figures. For 2023/24 entry: 783 applications, 334 interviews, 116 offers and 58 starters.
Dundee: admissions statisticsPark Place
The school is in the ten-storey Dental Hospital tower on Park Place, on the city campus.
Dundee: DentistryWho starts
Of the 58 who started in 2023/24, 36 were Scottish, 11 from the rest of the UK or Ireland, and 11 from overseas.
Dundee: admissions statisticsFees and key dates
Dundee says the year 1 international fee is lower because year 1 is a non-clinical year.
Source: Dundee: dentistry fees and funding; Dundee: dentistry admissions statistics
Key dates
Funding and support
No funding specific to this school is listed here. What you can get depends on where you live and where you study.
Strengths and things to plan for
- Published odds. Applications, interviews, offers and starters by fee status.
- Long outreach. About 70 days in the final year, across Scotland.
- Early patients. By the end of the first semester.
- First sitting. A*AA, with GCSE English and Maths at B/6.
- Fees by nation. £1,820 for Scottish students, £10,050 for the rest of the UK.
- Rest-of-UK starters. 11 started in 2023/24.
- International fees. £42,150 in year 1, at least £54,250 after.
Who to believe, and in what order
DentiSpark is not the authority on any of this, and does not want to be. University of Dundee's own pages are the authority on what it will ask of you; where anything here disagrees with them, the school is right and we are not. Entry requirements, deadlines and course codes change from one cycle to the next.
The regulator
The General Dental Council decides which degrees lead to registration as a dentist in the UK. Its list of approved providers is the only place to confirm where a programme stands.
GDC approved providers