Postgraduate dental programmes
Give your career a competitive edge
The ñ's Peninsula Dental School offers a range of high-quality courses for dental professionals, based on the teaching that we already provide in our popular MSc programmes. The learning is delivered by highly experienced specialists and consultants, who are renowned nationally and internationally.
Enhance your career in dentistry
ñޜOur MSc graduates have gained many advantages on a number of levels: from personally having more confidence, leading to job satisfaction, to practically having upskilled in areas of interest, such as periodontics, endodontics and prosthodontics. This has enabled them to provide a greater range of treatments to their patients. There are important career advantages gained by acquiring an MSc, such as giving yourself a competitive edge in career prospects and for applying for specialist training pathways.ñޝ
Lorna Burns, Associate Head of Postgraduate Taught, Peninsula Dental School (Faculty of Health)
Enhance your clinical skills, gain confidence, and provide a greater range of high-quality, advanced treatments to your patients in: Endodontics, Periodontology, Restorative Dentistry, Oral Surgery or Orthodontics. Delivered both online and face-to-face, the postgraduate dental programmes at the ñ are delivered by leading consultants and experts with an emphasis on developing practical hands-on skills.
NHS Dental Postgraduate Bursary
Funding from the NHS via Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) is available to support dentists working in NHS roles within these ICB areas to undertake postgraduate training at the ñ.
These NHS-funded bursaries are intended to help develop the delivery of more advanced dental care across the South West.
A bursary of £5,000 per year may be awarded for the first two years only and can be used towards course fees for the following three-year part-time programmes: MSc Endodontics, MSc Oral Surgery, MSc Periodontology and MSc Restorative Dentistry.
Applications to the ICB for the NHS bursary must be submitted by 31 October 2026 for courses starting in January 2027.
Eligibility criteria apply, and applicants should ensure they have reviewed the full
terms and conditions before applying to the ICB. Interested applicants must complete the bursary application form using the link provided and submit a separate application to the ñ for the chosen course.
If successful, the NHS bursary funding will be paid directly to the University on the applicantñޙs behalf.
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Student perspective
ñޜThe MSc Restorative Dentistry course had a major impact on both my clinical practice and my career in dentistry. It has enabled me to access academic and leadership positions that were out of reach before. The approachability of the consultants and the wide range of visiting internationally-renowned speakers reignited my passion for dentistry and took my practical work to a new level.ñޝ
Dr Christina Worle BDS MSc
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