Gold Coast Campus

CAMPUS

3 years full-time

DURATION

COMMENCING IN

Trimester 1

CREDIT POINTS

240

DEGREE CODE

1574

CRICOS CODE

094387J

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

IELTS
(Academic)
6.5

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Prerequisites: English, English as an Additional Language, Literature or English & Literature Extension (Units 3&4, C)

$38,500 per year

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FEE (INDICATIVE)

This degree is ideal for students who like to work behind the scenes creating and manufacturing dentures, crowns, bridges and orthodontic appliances but not fitting the final denture or appliance to the patient.  It suits students who like working with their hands, can pay attention to detail and prefer not to work directly with the patient. 

Dental Technologists (or Dental Technicians as they are often referred to) are highly skilled members of the dental team. They combine art and science skills to construct custom-made dental devices to replace, restore and correct defects that may affect our facial appearance and the ability to use our teeth properly.

As an undergraduate student, you will learn and work alongside Dentistry students in our state of the art dental clinics and laboratories located in the same building. Our students enjoy working with industry-standard equipment including CAD-CAM (Computer Aided Design/Manufacturing) facilities.

You will also expand your hands-on experience working with registered and experienced Dental Technicians in our commercial laboratory and through professional practice placements.

Honours is available through an additional year of study.

Attendance information

The Bachelor of Dental Technology is offered full-time on-campus at the Gold Coast campus Ian O'Connor (G40) Building.

As a full-time student, you will generally attend 28-32 hours of scheduled classes per week throughout the trimester. Classes may be scheduled during the day and evening throughout the week and on Saturdays.

In the Bachelor of Dental Technology you must maintain a full-time study load. Part time study is only permitted in circumstances where credit for prior study is awarded and a full time structure is not available as a consequence, or where a student fails a course and is required to repeat that year of the program.

To allow further contextual learning opportunities, the academic calendar for the programs offered by the School of Medicine and Dentistry will be extended beyond the standard teaching trimester (i.e. commencing earlier and extending later than the standard teaching trimester).