The Newcastle Dentistry courseWhat you actually study, and where you will be
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The Newcastle dentistry course at a glance
Structured in five stages, with phantom head training in stage 2 and your own patients from stage 3. The dental hospital is part of what Newcastle describes as the largest integrated teaching and hospital complex in the UK.
How Newcastle teaches dentistry
A combination of "lectures and seminars, laboratory demonstrations (including closed-circuit TV), practical laboratory work, clinical demonstrations".
What that means day to day
When you first treat patients
Stage 3 is where students begin "managing your own patients by providing simple treatment under close supervision".
Year by year at Newcastle
Where you will actually be at Newcastle
Placement geography is the part of a dentistry course that changes your life most and appears in prospectuses least. Here is what Newcastle publishes.
Clinics are run by specialists in oral and maxillofacial surgery, oral medicine, paediatric dentistry, orthodontics and restorative dentistry.
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
Intercalation at Newcastle
Intercalated BSc degrees in Biomedical Science, or master's degrees.
Worth knowing about Newcastle
- £5.5 million has been invested in clinical simulation facilities.
Applying to Newcastle?
How to get into Newcastle
Entry requirements, UCAT, personal statement and interview, step by step.
Open the guide →Newcastle UCAT cut-offs and offers
UCAT cut-offs, A-level offers, interview format and decision dates.
See the requirements →Compare Newcastle with other schools
Put the teaching style, anatomy teaching and placements next to another school.
Open the comparison →Prepare for the Newcastle interview
Format breakdown, school-specific sample questions and prep tips from tutors who interviewed here.
Read the guide →Where this Newcastle course profile came from
Every course detail on this page was taken from Newcastle University School of Dental Sciences's own course page, read on 2026-09-11.
Primary source: Newcastle University School of Dental Sciences — 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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