口腔健康学士

作为口腔健康学士学位的学生，您将开发出在口腔健康治疗中实践的所有科学，理论和临床技能，其中包括从事牙齿卫生学家和牙科治疗师的职业。您将在高科技临床环境中与墨尔本牙科学校的牙科学生一起学习。您还将有机会在大都会诊所和农村地区进行实习。您将从一个临床教学团队中学习，该团队包括活跃的从业者和世界一流的学者，他们将国际领导，研究和政策专业知识带入了学位。
As a Bachelor of Oral Health student you'll develop all the scientific, theoretical and clinical skills to practice in oral health therapy — which includes careers as both dental hygienist and dental therapist. You will learn alongside dental students at the Melbourne Dental School in a high-tech clinical setting. You will also have the opportunity to undertake placements in metropolitan clinics and rural areas. You will learn from a clinical teaching team including active practitioners and world-leading academics who bring international leadership, research and policy expertise to the degree. The Bachelor of Oral Health has combined vocational outcomes in hygiene and therapy.<br><br>Career outcomes<br>On graduation you could practise as an oral health therapist, a dental therapist or a dental hygienist.<br><br>In these roles, you may examine and diagnose oral and dental health conditions, plan oral health care, help prevent disease, provide clinical dental treatments, undertake oral health promotion and perform orthodontic and preventative procedures, including impressions and applying topical fluoride or fissure sealants. You will provide fillings and extract deciduous teeth for children and young adults as well as plan care, treat periodontal conditions and clean, scale and root plane teeth for people of all ages. You will also take and interpret radiographs, and work in collaboration with other dental and health practitioners to improve oral health.<br>We'll teach you how to work empathically with people to help them improve oral health, to plan and deliver oral health promotion interventions for individuals, groups and communities, and contribute to public oral health programs.