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Dental Teaching Clinic

The Dental Teaching Clinic (DTC) provides holistic treatment and management of oral health disease by the Melbourne Dental School and RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) students.

DTC accepts all eligible patients who are entitled to care in the public system.

Students have general dentistry sessions as well as sessions supervised by specialists and/or specialist post graduate students such as endodontics, prosthodontics etc.

Following completion of care and one recall, patients will be discharged back to their local community clinic.

Patients who fail to attend 3 appointments or are unable to be contacted after 4 weeks will have subsequent appointment times given to other patients and their DTC course of care will be closed.

Clinical Criteria

Dental treatment required must be in scope for student clinicians. If treatment requested is out of scope of students, the patient will be referred back to their local community/referring clinic.

Prerequisites to Referral

Student care, although free, will take longer than treatment with qualified clinicians and patients may frequently have appointments where not very much clinical work may seem to be done. For these reasons, patients must fit the following criteria:

  • Consent to be seen by supervised students.
  • Understand/accept that completing examination may take more than one appointment.
  • Able to tolerate long appointments (up to 3 hours).
  • Understand/accept that they may be seen by multiple students during their course of care.
  • For continuity of care, patients must have flexibility around the days they are available for treatment and understanding that university semester breaks may impact appointments.
  • Able to come into RDHM for regular appointments (usually weekly or fortnightly).
  • The patient/carer understands that fees may apply if additional treatment is required in the non-teaching clinic. These fees will be discussed with the patient in the specialist area before commencing treatment.
  • A current OPG.
  • Completion of the Dental Teaching Clinic Referral form

Contact the Royal Dental
Hospital Of Melbourne

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