micksheff Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Can anyone give me advice on training to become a dental nurse and then a fully qualified dentist. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyhippy Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Hope this helps Have you any experience in this field? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micksheff Posted December 28, 2006 Author Share Posted December 28, 2006 Hope this helps Have you any experience in this field? Thankyou verymuch for the info, its for a friend of mine, she doesnt have previous experience, she is working as a nurse at the moment and would like to move into dentistry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindseyw Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 I always thought it was a 5 years at Uni kinda job - not from nurse to dentist ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Can anyone give me advice on training to become a dental nurse and then a fully qualified dentist. Cheers It's very unusual for a dental nurse to go on to be a dentist, as they are completely separate career paths. To qualify as a dentist, you'll need a clutch of high-grade GCSEs and A Levels to enter a dentistry course at university. It's very competitive. Here's a link to the course at Birmingham Uni. The entrance requirements stated will be the minimum requirement. In practice, the successful candidates are highly likely to have four A grade A Levels or the equivalent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twiglet Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 If she is currently a qualified nurse, dental nursing will be a step backward. People usually get into it by getting a job as a dental nurse at a practice then doing an NVQ or certificate part time at college. The pay is generally pretty poor. Becoming a dental nurse would not provide any advantage to an application to dental school to train as a dentist, for which Hecate's advice is very sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banesmabes Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 My sister is a dental nurse, and even with 10 years experience, the pay is very poor (nowhere near the figures given on the career advice link above!). She has always been of the impression that the only career progression would be to become a dental hygienist, doing some basic dental work like scale and polishes, and giving talks in schools etc on oral hygiene. Having dental experience could perhaps give you an edge over other applicants for a Dentistry degree, but you would also have to achieve the same grades as anyone else, as stated above. It would just perhaps make you stand out from the crowd of people with straight As at A Level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weenireeni Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 banesmabes, how did your sis get into dental nursing? all the vacancies i see want someone with experience and fully qualified, is college the only route? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banesmabes Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 banesmabes, how did your sis get into dental nursing? all the vacancies i see want someone with experience and fully qualified, is college the only route? thanks She went on a Sheffield College course about 10 years ago. I believe it was classroom based with a year long placement at Charles Clifford at the end of it, and she got a job from being fully qualified. She was talking about the younger nurses recently and saying that it was all done by NVQ now (which implies you need the job first), and that her boss was only interested in people with no experience because he could pay them less while they did their NVQ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banesmabes Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Looks like Sheffield College now provide an apprenticeship course: http://my.sheffcol.ac.uk/index.cfm?PID=3732A3CA-D3DA-4F34-B378-51818C41A6FF&cmd=Course&Course=AP008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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