Bachelor in Dental Technology - Trinity College Dublin

The Bachelor in Dental Technology is based in the Dublin Dental University Hospital, near the Trinity campus, with state-of-the-art facilities, including CAD CAM machines for fabricating dental appliances in close proximity to the clinical environment. Class sizes are small, ensuring that students receive considerable staff contact and the staff are actively involved in student progress throughout the program.

Dental technicians work in a laboratory which is usually remote from the dental clinic. Dental technicians work to the prescription of a dentist; they perform the laboratory aspects of dentistry – fabricating crowns and bridges, dentures, implants, maxillofacial and orthodontic appliances intended for use by the patient.

Dental technicians have good manual dexterity skills and are required to work with different materials for the fabrication of the various appliances. Dental technology is a changing field, with more emphasis on the use of CAD (Computer Aided Design) / CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) in the laboratory.