The Leeds Dentistry courseWhat you actually study, and where you will be
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The Leeds dentistry course at a glance
Leeds lets students start treating patients in first year, with dental hospital clinics running from year 1 right through to year 5, plus outreach placements rotating through Bradford, Hull and Beeston.
How Leeds teaches dentistry
The BChD integrates clinical dentistry, science and professional development, with clinical learning from an early stage so academic theory can be applied in the clinical environment.
What that means day to day
When you first treat patients
Students have "the unique chance to start treating patients from first year"; Dental Hospital clinics are arranged from years 1 to 5.
Year by year at Leeds
Where you will actually be at Leeds
Placement geography is the part of a dentistry course that changes your life most and appears in prospectuses least. Here is what Leeds publishes.
Outreach placements are located in Bradford, Hull and Leeds (Beeston), allocated on a termly basis. The Dental Institute is in the same building as the School of Dentistry.
- Leeds Dental Institute
Worth knowing about Leeds
- Clinical areas covered include restorative dentistry, oral surgery, children’s dentistry, oral radiography and radiology, and oral medicine.
Applying to Leeds?
How to get into Leeds
Entry requirements, UCAT, personal statement and interview, step by step.
Open the guide →Leeds UCAT cut-offs and offers
UCAT cut-offs, A-level offers, interview format and decision dates.
See the requirements →Compare Leeds with other schools
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Open the comparison →Prepare for the Leeds interview
Format breakdown, school-specific sample questions and prep tips from tutors who interviewed here.
Read the guide →Where this Leeds course profile came from
University of Leeds School of Dentistry's course page could not be read directly by our tooling — it either sits behind a bot wall or renders in the browser — so this page was built from the university's own published course and school pages, checked on 2026-09-11. Confirm the detail against the official page before you rely on it.
Primary source: University of Leeds School of Dentistry — official course information.
Courses are restructured between cycles. Anything here that decides your application — an anatomy offer, a placement city, a compulsory intercalated year — should be confirmed against the official page for your entry year.
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