Completing the Bachelor of Oral Health at CQUniversity enables you to apply to the Dental Board of Australia for registration as an Oral Health Therapist.

Designed to equip you with a broad skill set, the course ensures you graduate work-ready. You will develop skills to effectively perform preventive and operative dentistry for patients and provide specialist dental practices. In addition, your education and training will provide you with underpinning industry knowledge so you can educate and promote oral health in small group and community settings.

The course has a strong focus on work-integrated learning in pre-clinical and clinical settings such as our purpose-fit oral health laboratory and dental clinic at CQUniversity Rockhampton. This allows you to gain valuable practical experience whilst also increasing your employability. Oral health can be a diverse and rewarding career. During your studies, you will benefit from learning alongside students in other health courses in facilities such as CQUniversity's Allied Health Clinic.

Internships & Placements

• Work-based learning takes place in the oral health simulation laboratory for 36 hours and the oral health clinic on campus for 36 hours per term.
• Work-based learning takes place in the oral health simulation laboratory on campus for 3 x 3 hour sessions per week per term.
• Work-based learning takes place in the oral health simulation laboratory and/or the oral health clinics on campus for 2 x 3 hour sessions per term
• Work-based learning takes place in the oral health simulation laboratory (6 hours per term), oral health prosthetic laboratory (6 hours per term) and oral health clinics on campus 1 x 3 hour session each week per term.
• Students will be required to volunteer for up to 25 hours in a community-based agency per term.

Professional Recognition

The Bachelor of Oral Health course at CQUniversity is accredited by the Australian Dental Council (ADC) and approved without conditions by the Dental Board of Australia (DBofA) until 31 December 2020. The course is accredited by the Australian Dental Council in accordance with s48 of the National Law.

Upon completion of the Bachelor of Oral Health you will be eligible to apply for registration to work in general and specialist dental practices within Australia as an Oral Health Therapist. You will be able to perform preventive and operative dentistry for patients across the lifespan. You will also be equipped to educate and promote oral health in small group and community settings.