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Dental Hygiene (BA)

Join the University Elite – with the Bachelor in Dental Hygiene!

 

The three-year Bachelor in Dental Hygiene (BA) programme, comprising 180 ECTS, offers an excellent opportunity to help shape a modern, success-oriented, state-of-the-art practice, making yourself indispensable as an academic to both dentist and patient.

 

Advantages of studying at DPU:

  • EU-recognised, accredited university undergraduate degree in Dental Hygiene (BA). The practice of the profession is subject to the respective national legal regulations.

  • Study in a family-like atmosphere alongside future dentists. Integration into a demanding professional network.

  • The DPU offers a wide range of facilities for dental training, e.g. 74 phantom workstations.

 

Qualification Profile
Dental hygienists contribute, through their knowledge and practical professional training, to the maintenance of healthy teeth and the surrounding bone and soft tissue. Their role involves primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention within the scope of oral medicine, thus making an important contribution to preventive medicine. Due to increasing demand for prevention-oriented dental practices, new treatment fields in periodontology, implantology, aesthetic-reconstructive dentistry, and geriatric dentistry, as well as growing awareness of preventive care, there is a rising need for university-trained prophylaxis personnel according to the European education standard – Bachelor in Dental Hygiene (BA).

Without dental hygienists, who work largely independently within delegated responsibilities from dentists, the predicted continued rise in the incidence of periodontitis, peri-implantitis, and other oral diseases in all industrialised nations cannot be managed, either medically or financially. In many European countries – including the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, and Spain – this training, which also offers special earning opportunities for both dentists and dental hygienists, has been successfully established for years.

Dental hygienists work in dental practices, dental clinics, public health and education institutions, research, and industry, always under the supervision and employment of a dentist. The qualification also offers graduates a considerable income potential based on practice performance. Dedicated dental hygienists know how to engage patients in prevention, build long-term loyalty to a practice, and promote uptake of innovative modern dental treatments. This, in turn, allows treating dentists to dedicate more time to advanced tasks in patient care.