Oral Health Therapy

Offered with support from the Health Promotion Board, the National University Centre for Oral Health, the Singapore Dental Association and government polyclinics, this course teaches core skills in operative and preventive dentistry, dental hygiene, oral-health promotion and clinic management. Learn to perform procedures like polishing, scaling, root planing, fillings and extraction of milk teeth. Plus, gain hands-on experience in specialised simulation laboratories and during clinical attachments.

Career Opportunities

As an oral health therapist, you can practise in areas such as:

• school dental service at the Health Promotion Board, in school dental clinics or at mobile dental clinics

• private dental practices or dental institutions

• oral health promotion

• clinical audit

• other dental-related industries (marketing, sales & training)