Overview
On this 1-year MSc Advanced Aesthetic and Restorative Dentistry, you'll top-up your PgDip to a Master's degree while you contribute to the scientific discourse on aesthetic and restorative dentistry through extensive clinical research.
You'll explore a research area of your choice within your own practice, with full support and guidance from Dental Academy clinicians and researchers.
You'll embark on your own structured programme of research, evaluating existing studies and technological innovations and using them to inform your analysis. With the opportunity to learn from and network with experienced registered clinicians, you'll develop your own new perspectives, evaluate your practice objectively and add to the conversation on dental practice advancement.
When you graduate, you'll be ready to enrich the field of aesthetic and restorative dentistry best practice as an expert contributor or to pursue further dental research. With further education and training, you could also progress into dental education.
Course highlights
- Gain the skills and confidence to treat more complex cases
- Learn professional research methods and apply them to a clinical area of your choice, to deepen your knowledge and specialist capabilities
- Build your confidence in practice and research with support and guidance from dedicated supervisors
- Enrich your expertise by exchanging ideas with a global team of clinicians and researchers in dental public health, dental education and clinical innovation
- Make an original contribution to knowledge in the field of aesthetic and restorative dentistry through your dissertation project, adding your voice to the conversation on dental practice advancement
- Explore options for career progression by networking with experienced registered clinicians
- Save time and money: study in your own time, from anywhere in the world, at a course cost that is highly competitive
Careers and opportunities
Careers this Master’s prepares you for
As a graduate of this course, you’ll have the skills and expertise to develop your career in a range of rewarding directions.
You’ll demonstrate the ability to critically assess scientific and technological innovations in dentistry. As well as improving individuals’ oral health, you’ll be able to enhance collective knowledge across the field of aesthetic and restorative dentistry.
What’s more, you'll have developed skills that are valued beyond the clinical environment – from communication and teamwork, to project management and critical thinking.
In developing your career, you might choose to:
- broaden your clinical offer to include advanced aesthetic and restorative dentistry
- build an advanced practice as a professional dedicated to advanced aesthetic and restorative dentistry
- become a professional dental researcher, for example at a product manufacturer or government agency
- pursue further study and research, such as MPhil or PhD
- enter academia and educate future generations of dental professionals
- use your new knowledge in an expert role with an accreditation agency, insurance company or healthcare service provider
