Dental hygienist

City Student Scholarships Category Duration Admission Requirements
Copenhagen, Aarhus SU berettiget Profession Bachelors 3 year Gymnasiel
City Copenhagen, Aarhus
Student Scholarships SU berettiget
Category Profession Bachelors
Duration 3 year
Admission Requirements Gymnasiel
Dental hygienist

One of the most important we have is our body, and some of the most important on the body, our teeth. A high dental hygiene from the time we are small, hindering Karius and Baktus to settle in the teeth, so we need dentures when we grow old.

It is important to maintain this dental hygiene and therefore must regularly to the dentist just to get checked up on whether there are new settlers, or everything is as it should be. One of the main characters at the dentist's dental hygienist, which stands for control of the teeth, periodontal treatments and dental cleanings and more. Many may think that a dental hygienist is an expanding dental assistant, but it's more the same as a dentist, where the biggest difference is that the dental hygienist must not drill into teeth.

Therefore, you do not suffer from dental phobia as long as you are entering into a dental hygienist.

However, many people suffer anyway from dental phobia, but this is where a hygienist distinguished by during the 3 years training takes to have learned to deal with patients' insecurity through subjects as health psychology and health education projects.

The teaching consists of an exchange between the group and project work, lectures and practical exercises. Much of the study is the training which you all use a year of training at. The school has its own clinics, where you can have your internship. It is also possible to get work experience outside the school in other parts of the country, for example the city you come from, if there is a dentist practicing there. Optionally, you go abroad and also get inspiration for techniques that they use there.


Job Opportunities

You can work in a private dental clinic or at school dentists. It takes place both at the dentist's chair, but can also be as a teacher in how to care for his teeth, and prevents holes etc.



Special admission requirements

Baccalaureate or other relevant training.