King's College London

You will be taught mostly online through King’s E-learning and Teaching Service (KEATS) which provides information, interactive questions, assignments, use of bibliographic databases and reading material. Our students participate in online tutorials and discussion groups, interacting with expert tutors and their fellow students. Face-to-face lectures and hands-on training take place in blocks in the first three years. Students are required to undertake and build a reflective log of clinical work in their own general practice.

Students are required to have access to adequate clinical facilities and to patients requiring treatment relevant to the subject area.

Clinical support for FRP students is provided through:

• clinical case discussion for diagnosis and treatment planning
• comprehensive tutor feedback on clinical work completed in practice
• case discussion opportunities during the face to face teaching blocks
• tutor guided online seminars for case discussion and treatment planning.

While advice regarding patient treatment is given by our experienced clinical team, the clinical responsibility for patient treatment remains with the clinician providing the treatment.

Topics covered in the course modules:

• Treatment planning and diagnostics
• Prevention at primary, secondary and tertiary levels
• Management of missing teeth
• Implant placement and restoration including -immediate, delayed, single unit to large units with soft tissue procedures
• Dentures of all types and designs, complete and partial including implant retained and precision attachments
• Bridges of all types including adhesive designs
• Occlusion assessment and treatment, managing lost OVD
• Treatment of tooth wear, TMD, bruxism
• Endodontics from assessment, access, filing, shaping, obturation, dealing with perforations and broken file retrieval
• Digital dentistry and the workflow from clinic to laboratory
• Smile design
• Aesthetic dentistry
• Aesthetic veneers – direct, indirect, chairside, semi-direct
• Orthodontics in relation to restorative and aesthetic dentistry
• Periodontology – including surgery
• Tooth restoration of all cavity types, materials, direct and indirect
• Restoring cavities with bulk-fill, monochromatic and layering techniques
• MI dentistry and its application to clinical practice
• Tooth preparation for all types of indirect restorations and design, margin design and positioning
• Restoration of root filled teeth
• Restoration of broken down teeth
• Patient management
• Management of compromised patients
• Critical appraisal
• Research methods and statistics

The Fixed & Removable Prosthodontics MClinDent is a global programme so we teach different approaches from no-prep, to minimal intervention through to destination driven tooth preparation. It is always good to work alongside colleagues from around the world and so we all gain a broader perspective.

The face-to-face component for the London pathway normally takes place as follows:
Year 1: 11 consecutive days at King's College London's LonDEC training centre.
Year 2: Nine consecutive days at King's College London's LonDEC training centre.
Year 3: Nine consecutive days at King's College London's LonDEC training centre.

The face-to-face component for the Dubai pathway normally takes place as follows:
Year 1: Nine consecutive days at the training facility in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Year 2: Nine consecutive days at the training facility in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Year 3: Nine consecutive days at the training facility in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The following table will give you an idea of what a typical year might look like as you progress through your studies. Typically, one credit equates to 10 hours of work.