
Course Summary
Course Location: | Multiple locations |
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Duration: | Two Years |
Level: | Postgraduate |
Delivery: | Hybrid Learning, Part-time |
Campus: | University of Greater Manchester, Approved Dental Practices |
Award: | MSc |
Credits: | 180 |
MSc in Specialist Practice of Pulpal Therapy and Endodontics
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The MSc in Specialist Practice of Pulpal Therapy and Endodontics is designed to deepen your understanding of the essential requirements for providing ethical, safe, and evidence-based endodontic treatment. This programme introduces the latest endodontic protocols and digitally driven technologies, ensuring their relevance to general practice.
By completing this MSc, you will enhance your expertise in endodontics, helping to expand your referral base and develop a specialized practice focused on pulpal therapy and endodontics.

The Advanced Prior Learning Delegate Pathway is a tailored program for professionals with advanced prior learning in Restorative Aesthetic Dentistry and Implantology.
The APL programme offers an accelerated curriculum that builds upon your existing qualifications and experience, with a duration customised to your current knowledge and skills. Through this pathway, you will deepen your expertise in advanced implantology techniques, restorative aesthetic dentistry, integrate the latest research and methodologies into your practice, and complete specific modules that complement your prior learning.
This pathway enables you to fast-track your MSc Restorative Aesthetic Dentistry and Implantology by leveraging your previous qualifications and focusing on advanced topics that will enhance your specialist practice.
Apply now to take the next step in advancing your career.

This module develops knowledge and understanding of the requirements essential to the safe clinical practice and application of advanced treatment modalities and the challenge of long-term maintenance issues or complications. It aims to highlight potential endodontic complications in treatment and for you to be able to develop risk assessment strategies to avoid or minimise complications in endodontic therapy.
These challenges can range from unacceptable aesthetics and poor treatment outcomes to irreversible occlusal abnormalities. As it is not possible to prevent all complications, this module also considers essential management strategies and the ethical issues of informed consent and management of patient expectations.
This module will provide a sound understanding of the key causes of pulpal disease, its diagnosis, and appropriate treatment modalities. Students will conduct literature searches and critically appraise current evidence relating to the management of pulpal pathology and apical periodontitis.
This module will also consider potential complications and risk assessment strategies to avoid and minimize complications. It also develops communication skills, organization, planning and problem solving, treatment planning, risk assessment, ethical responsibility, and consent.
This module introduces Cone Beam Computer Tomography (CBCT) through a series of practical training sessions on three-dimensional imaging systems and their underlying principles. It will develop the skills of navigation and interpretation of three-dimensional images.
Through this module you will learn the fundamental technology of CT scans, their advantages and limitations. You will learn the operating and legal requirements applicable to the safe and effective use of radiographic equipment, plus the health and safety issues related to ionising radiation.
Patient aesthetic awareness coupled with the development of new orthodontic techniques, Implant and restorative rehabilitation have increased the number of adults seeking advanced dental treatment. This has increased the likelihood of dentists having to diagnose and treat the occlusion as part of a larger treatment plan.
This multidisciplinary module considers the anatomy, aetiology and management of occlusion from an orthodontic and restorative perspective. The aim of this module is to enable the dentist to effectively diagnose and formulate a treatment plan so that the patient can be treated with a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach.
As an experienced dental professional, this optional module requires you to critically evaluate the value of your own knowledge base and to recognise and clarify the important connections between what you already know and what you intend to learn.
It encourages information literacy, using contemporary and seminal sources in order to compile a critical evaluation of restorative and aesthetic practice to allow you to develop strategies to enhance practice.
This module is designed to help you develop the research skills necessary to identify your dissertation topic, create a detailed proposal, and plan your research effectively. It will equip you with the academic skills required for Master’s level study.
The module encompasses key areas such as clinical statistics, evidence-based practice, critical appraisal, measurement, and research design, with a focus on their specific applications in medical research and treatment.
You will learn how to formulate realistic research objectives and establish an appropriate conceptual and analytical framework for your study. Additionally, you will acquire skills in identifying, collating, and critically reviewing relevant literature, enabling you to make informed decisions regarding the research philosophies, strategies, and methods best suited to your project.
This taught module offers the opportunity to conduct an extended and significant research project. It enables you to synthesize the academic knowledge gained from your previous postgraduate studies and practical experiences to create an evaluative and critical discussion on a specialist dental topic directly related to your program.
The module aims to enhance your skills in identifying a problem, determining its significance, formulating a hypothesis or proposition, designing a method for testing the hypothesis, and evaluating the results.