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9/15/2025Teeth, mouth, and jaw – field of duties in dentistry is very special and differs greatly from other medical fields. Dentistry studies at RWTH Aachen consist of both an academic and practical component, which prepare students for work in application, teaching, and research. It teaches information about what consists of a healthy person and the most important health disorders, especially those in the teeth, mouth and jaw. Building on this foundation, attention is then paid to the causes and types of sicknesses and preventative medicine. This fundamental knowledge is supplemented by core knowledge, abilities and skills to assume tasks relating to prophylaxis and prevention, diagnostics, therapy and rehabilitation. From an academic perspective students acquire the technical skills to research illnesses related to the mouth, jaw, and face. The practical component focuses on learning preventative and treatment methods and critically evaluating research results to implement them in everday practice. In order to be competent both from scientific and practical standpoints, it is important to acquire relevant basic knowledge in the natural sciences as well. After the new dental licensing regulations came into force in 2020, the degree program was completely revised. The new dentistry program offers a special curriculum, particularly in its preclinical part, which distinguishes it from how dentistry studies are organized at other universities. Here, experiences from the human medicine model course of study, which dropped the traditional subject-by-subject approach in favor of a more innovative, interdisciplinary and organ-centered one, are evident in the dentistry program. As part of the implementation of the new dental licensing regulations, phantom head courses are now offered not only in preventive dentistry and dental prosthodontics, but also in orthodontics and oral and maxillofacial surgery. These are enriched – as permitted by the new dental licensing regulations – by student-friendly digitally based teaching activities: Dental techniques, for example, are vividly presented using videos. With the help of motion-based games – similar to videogames – students have the opportunity to develop practical skills in a playful way. Mixing alginate and palpation of the head and neck muscles, for example, can thus be easily learned.
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Public
Germany
Aachen
North Rhine-Westphalia
No
10 Semester
Winter
Full Time
General Requirement: https://www.rwth-aachen.de/cms/root/studium/vor-dem-studium/zugangsvoraussetzungen/~zwyn/sprachkenntnisse/?lidx=1
Not required
Abitur or equivalent HZB Further Information: Proficiency in German
Semester Contribution: 298
Winter: 15.08.-15.09
ApplicationEndDate: 15 September 2025 at UTC
ApplicationEndDateNonEU: 15 September 2025 at UTC
