Our oral health therapy students graduate with dual qualifications in dental hygiene and dental therapy. This degree has a strong focus on disease prevention, world class simulation and an advanced restorative scope.

Learn valuable skills from professional dental practitioners that will make a real difference. Help shape a healthier future for children and adults.

You will learn how to perform a range of preventive and minor restorative tasks, educate your community, and discover emerging methods for controlling and treating disease.

By studying this degree, you will broaden your career options and boost your employability.

The Bachelor of Oral Health Therapy degree will build your scientific knowledge and clinical skills, using a population-based approach to oral health care.

• Learn how to provide preventative and simple restorative treatments to individuals.
• Discover how oral health and general health are intertwined, developing skills to improve overall individual and community wellbeing.
• Develop critical research skills that will set you in good stead for life-long learning as an oral health professional.
• Gain hands-on experience in our on-campus oral health clinic and simulation laboratory and undertake clinical placements in rural and urban regions across NSW.

Your courses will be drawn from a variety of disciplines including:

• clinical treatment for children, the elderly, Indigenous Australians and special needs groups
• communication
• dental therapy
• health promotion
• human bioscience and anatomy
• oral pathology
• periodontology
• radiography

2024 Program Handbook

The courses shown above are a guide, and don't reflect the exact year-by-year structure of the program, you should always refer to the program handbook for details of the complete program structure, course requirements and availability.

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As an Oral Health Therapist you will work independently  within the dental team to provide preventive and restorative dental care within the scope of practice of an oral health therapist.

Dual qualification in dental hygiene and dental therapy and adult scope of practice makes our graduates very attractive to employers.

Professional career opportunities include:

• Oral Health Therapist
• Dental Hygienist
• Residential Aged Care Facility Preventive Practitioner
• Health Promotion Officer
• Public Health Practitioner

Admission to our undergraduate degree programs usually requires successful completion of a senior secondary school qualification similar to the Higher School Certificate (HSC).

TOEFL paper-based test score of 589; TOEFL internet based score of 94; IELTS (Academic) score of 7.0; PTE GSE score of 65; Cambridge English: Advanced score of 67.