MSc (Research) Dentistry (Community Oral Health & Oral Sciences)

The Glasgow Dental School Clinical Research Facility aims to improve oral and general health by advancing new and better ways of preventing and treating disease. We strive for our research to have a significant positive impact in the local community and the wider world.

Overview

The dental school has a thriving community of postgraduate research students, from both the United Kingdom and overseas. The majority of our research students undertake PhD programmes within our two research groups:

• Community Oral Health
• Oral Sciences

Our PhD students come from a wide variety of clinical and non-clinical backgrounds including

• microbiology
• immunology
• dental public health
• epidemiology
• statistical modeling
• psychology and behavioural sciences

We engage in knowledge exchange with policymakers, practitioners, researchers, industry and the public to ensure that policies and practices are based on evidence, and effectively translated into practice.