Free dental treatment
Information about treatment provided by our dental students.
To give our students the best possible training, we aim to provide experience in real-world scenarios. To do so, patients who need basic dental treatment are invited to register to attend our restorative dentistry training clinics. If you choose to do so and are deemed to be eligible for treatment, you will be assigned to one of our students to receive high-quality, free dental care. During this treatment, students are supervised at all times by our experienced clinical team of qualified dentists and dental technicians.
As this treatment is delivered by students, it is only available during term time, Monday to Friday between 9am – 5pm when the allocated student is available. Appointments are likely to take a little longer than a normal dental visit. Patients are required to attend an initial assessment appointment, if you are not suitable for any reason to be treated by a student, then treatment will not be offered.
If you are prepared to accept the conditions above and would like to be considered for treatment by a dental student, please submit your contact details. Please remember that requests for treatment are not always accepted and that emergency treatment cannot be provided at your assessment visit.
Out of hours
Emergency dental treatment will not be provided by dental students.
The following treatments are not provided by dental students.
- Dental implants
- Tooth whitening
- Repeated and complex root canal treatment
- Complex crown and bridge work
- Patients requiring hospital transport
- Patients unable to cope with long appointments
- Patients with complex medical histories
- Patients requiring treatment under sedation
- Patients unable to give independent informed consent
- Orthodontics and braces.