The Postgraduate Dental Education Unit (PGDEU) is one of the UK’s leading dental education centres offering an established portfolio of courses for qualified dentists who wish to develop their knowledge of the latest methods, equipment and techniques in implant dentsitry and orthodontics. 

All our programmes emphasise the importance of safe evidence-based practice, together with practical relevance and flexibility to meet the needs of busy dental practitioners. The wide range of programmes on offer are delivered by leading professionals, academics and researchers using a wide variety of educational tools including hands-on typodont sessions in our clinical skills laboratory, video conferencing and e-learning, thus ensuring students benefit from the University’s educational infrastructure.

In 2008 we launched some exciting additions to the portfolio of programmes - the Diploma in Orthodontic Therapy and the first UK based MSc in Lingual Orthodontics.

MSc in Orthodontic Dentistry

The only MSc Orthodontic programme specifically for general dental practitioners enabling them to pursue a flexible training pathway that can be taken over a period suited to individual circumstances. The core course is held at the University approved Orthodontic Training Centre in Leamington Spa with further clinical teaching provided at regional training centres. This course covers all of the requirements for DIWSE recognition and beyond.

The programme provides tuition from experts in the field of orthodontics, together with advanced clinical training so that students are able to develop a proficiency in orthodontics informed by evidence-based dentistry. It aims to enhance professional development supporting students to think creatively and independently, to solve problems, to exercise judgment, and to communicate clearly and effectively with patients and their colleagues.

The programme provides hands-on experience in orthodontic case assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning and treatment. It also develops students' ability to critically appraise research papers and other specialised publications.

The lecturing team have vast experience in all clinical treatment modalities, including self-ligation mechanics such as The Damon system, lingual appliances, and the Invisalign appliance.

MSc in Lingual Orthodontics

This course is designed for specialist orthodontists who wish to gain experience with a wide range of lingual orthodontic systems and gain a qualification in lingual orthodontics. Internationally recognised experts in this field are involved with this pioneering course.

Diploma in Orthodontic Therapy

This GDC approved course is aimed at Dental Care Professionals who wish to train as an Orthodontic Therapist providing orthodontic treatment, working to a prescription from a Specialist Orthodontist. It aims to produce a highly trained and motivated Orthodontic therapist and its structure has been carefully thought out based on the lecturers vast experience in education of all members of the orthodontic team.

MSc in Implant Dentistry

The implant dentistry programme at The University of Warwick is designed with the busy GDP in mind. The programme also recognises that implant dentistry will be delivered in the general practice environment. For this reason we have based the clinical teaching in selected  general practices. These practices have to meet stringent quality assurance. The Regional Training Centres are situated throughout the United Kingdom and also internationally at the regional hubs of Dubai and Singapore.

During the course, participants have the opportunity to observe and actually place implants on their own patients in a Regional Centre practice environment under close supervision from a course tutor, participants treat their own patients from initial consultation and assessment through to surgery and final restoration.

Participating in this unique hands-on teaching programme, will allow you to learn implant placement techniques on real patients, and placement guidelines will be put into actual practice together with flap and incision design.

The course at these centres is designed to give a thorough grounding in the principles and practice of implantology, participants observing clinical demonstrations of implant placement and prosthodontic rehabilitation.

Throughout the course participants will be encouraged to provide study models and radiographs of potential implant patients for group discussion at diagnosis seminars. These highly interactive seminars are designed to stimulate and develop treatment planning skills. Additional clinical demonstration sessions are conducted over weekend workshops and delivered at Regional Centres.

The first year of the course is based at a Regional Training Centre and is called The Principles of Implant Dentistry. The second year has two modules one of which is to complete clinical cases some of which are done in the students’ own practice and some are done under supervision in the Regional Training Centre.

If students do not have implant equipment all cases may be done in the Regional Training Centre. There are two formal courses in the second year at Warwick University on Bone  Augmentation and Occlusion and Prosthodontics. The third year of the course is the M Sc year and the formal teaching takes place at the university.

To find out more about our portfolio of high quality courses visit http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/dentistry, call 024 7657 4633 (implant dentistry), 024 7652 2472 (orthodontic dentistry) or email dentists@warwick.ac.uk.