Brighton and Sussex Medical School
PGDip Dental Implant Reconstructive Surgery
Brighton, United Kingdom
Diploma
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2027
TUITION FEES
GBP 24,980 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for international students | for UK nationals: £20,870
Key Summary
About: This PGDip at Brighton and Sussex Medical School draws on implant surgeons and restorative specialists across Kent, Surrey and Sussex. You study patient assessment, treatment planning, surgical principles, occlusion, bone preservation, grafting, soft-tissue techniques, management of dentate and edentulous cases, digital workflow and immediate-load full-arch methods. The programme includes dry-bone and stereolithographic model workshops, phantom-head practice, live surgery, cadaveric training and personalized mentoring.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work as dental implant surgeons, restorative dentists, implantologists, prosthodontists, private practice owners or clinical educators. Skills support practice setup, advanced surgical skills, digital dentistry and NHS roles, research, teaching and management roles.
This new course, and the first dental postgraduate programme at BSMS, draws upon the experience of senior and established dental implant surgeons and restorative specialists in Kent, Surrey and Sussex.
Key areas of study
- Patient assessment
- Treatment planning
- Principles of surgery and implant surgery
- Occlusion and restorative perspectives of implant dentistry
- Bone preservation, bone grafting and soft tissue techniques
- Managing partially dentate and edentulous cases
- Emerging techniques in implant dentistry
- Setting up and maintaining your own personalised dental implant practice
Why BSMS?
This programme will be uniquely individualised and focused on student needs.
Mentoring will be available to enable rapid progression, if appropriate, to more advanced techniques for the established dental implant surgeon. A more focused approach on basics in implant dentistry will also be available for the early-stage dental implant surgeon.
The programme also includes emerging techniques with digital workflow and immediate load full arch techniques; hands on surgery with dry-bone/stereolithographic model workshops in phantom head facility; live surgery; cadaveric hands-on training and mentoring.
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The course is aimed at postgraduate level dentists who are interested in developing their dental implant experience: from early-stage dental implant surgeons to more experienced clinicians who want to consolidate their knowledge with a PGDip in implant dentistry.
How is the course taught?
The course adopts an individualised approach in surgical training, with mentoring, utilising work-based assessments (WBAs) and direct observed procedural skills (DOPS) so that delegates will be able to rapidly progress to more advanced techniques after successfully completing their competency-based assessments.
The course will be delivered over one to two days per month.
How is the course assessed?
The main emphasis on assignments will be on clinical case presentations and short essays. Students who do not have access to their own patients will be invited to observe clinical sessions and all modules will have live surgery components, with hands-on experience in simulation settings and cadaveric training.