Enhance your skills at world-leading academic centre for dentistry.
UCL Eastman CPD dentistry courses focus on hands-on training to help you improve your everyday clinical skills. Developed and led by practising specialists, our short courses combine theoretical and practical knowledge to equip you with new skills to implement in everyday clinical practice.
Explore our short courses
We run courses in the following subject areas. Dates for courses are arranged throughout the year. View a full list of courses for details and registration.
Coming next:
- Single Implants in the Aesthetic Zone - 25 March 2025
This five-day practical CPD course covers popular topics in aesthetic dentistry. It's held over five consecutive days and includes hands-on tuition every day. - Masterclass in Aesthetic Dentistry – 12-16 May 2025 & 21-25 July 2025
This five-day practical CPD course covers popular topics in aesthetic dentistry. It's held over five consecutive days and includes hands-on tuition every day. - Masterclass in Periodontics – 16-20 June 2025
This five-day CPD course runs over one week and is designed to provide general dental practitioners (GDPs) with further understanding of periodontology. - ORE 2 Dental Manikin Mock Exam – 27 March & 28 March 2025
This one-day course allows you to experience exam conditions in the morning, followed by an afternoon of individual feedback and further revision practice. - Return to Dentistry – 2 June 2025
This one-day CPD course will allow you to learn the essential requirements for getting back to practice and discuss any practicalities or challenges you may face. - Implant Maintenance for Dental Hygienists and Therapists – 12 June 2025
This one-day CPD course is designed for clinical dental professionals who want to develop the knowledge and skills needed to successfully care for and maintain dental implants.
In-person courses
Aesthetic dentistry is one of the most popular and fulfilling dental fields. Our courses are designed for dentists who wish to remain at the cutting edge of contemporary dentistry, and to be able to meet and deliver with confidence the restorative needs of patients with high aesthetic expectations.
- Aesthetic Dentistry: Aesthetic Posterior Restorations
This two-day, hands-on CPD course will present a step-by-step approach to the most important considerations, clinical steps and procedures for posterior restorations in aesthetic dentistry patients. - Masterclass in Aesthetic Dentistry
This five-day practical CPD course covers popular topics in aesthetic dentistry. It's held over five consecutive days and includes hands-on tuition every day. - Single Implants in the Aesthetic Zone
This one-day course will take you, step-by-step, through extraction, temporization, planning, implant placement, implant active temporary, and final restoration on front teeth.
We will be scheduling more 2025-26 dates for Aesthetic Dentistry courses soon. Contact us to receive notice of courses and taster sessions when dates are confirmed.
- Practical Local Anaesthesia in Dentistry
This two-day CPD course teaches dental practitioners how to use local anaesthetics correctly in dental practice - Return to Dentistry
This one-day CPD course will allow you to learn the essential requirements for getting back to practice and discuss any practicalities or challenges you may face. - Contemporary Minimally Invasive Techniques In Dental Practice
This one-day face-to-face course is designed to teach a contemporary approach towards tooth conservation. - Restorative Dentistry: Plan, Prep and Provisionalise
A one-day course to strengthen your skills and confidence in designing and executing indirect restorations. Optimise restorative techniques to get better results in your everyday clinical practice. For general dental practitioners. - Hypnosis and Hypnotic Communication in Dentistry
A four-day course on using hypnotherapeutic techniques in dentistry. Learn ways to address issues faced by patients and practitioners regarding anxiety, phobic responses to treatment and fear concerning pain.
We will be scheduling more 2025-26 dates for General Dentistry courses soon. Contact us to receive notice of courses and taster sessions when dates are confirmed.
Implant CPD courses at UCL Eastman Dental Institute cover both introductory and advanced implantology skills. From our two-day overdentures course to our eight-day clinical implant prosthodontics course, we offer a range of implant courses to suit you and the needs of your practice.
- Single Implants in the Aesthetic Zone
This one-day course will take you, step-by-step, through extraction, temporization, planning, implant placement, implant active temporary, and final restoration on front teeth. - Implant Dentistry: Bone Grafting Using the Guided Bone Regeneration (GBR) Technique
A two-day course on bone grafting for dental implants using the guided bone regeneration technique (GBR). Learn the principles of assessment, treatment, planning and surgical approaches to GBR. - Implant Dentistry for Dental Nurses
A one-day course that aims to provide dental nurses with an introduction to implant dentistry. - Soft Tissue Management for Dental Implants
This one-day CPD course for dental surgeons is designed to further your understanding of soft-tissue management for dental implants - Implant Dentistry: Fundamental Implant Prosthodontics
This two-day course is for clinicians who want to manage the restoration of dental implants in straightforward cases. - Implant Dentistry: Maxillary Sinus Augmentation
This two-day course will provide you with a comprehensive overview of the management of the atrophic posterior maxilla. - Implant Dentistry: Implant Overdentures
A two-day course on the surgical placement and subsequent restoration of dental implants with overdentures. Interactive seminars will be followed by a demonstration of treatment procedures on a live patient. - Implant Dentistry: All-on-4 & Immediate Loading
A two-day course introducing the All-on-4 concept from start to fitting of a provisional prosthesis in one day, including all lab stages.
We will be scheduling more 2025-26 dates for Implant Dentistry courses soon. Contact us to receive notice of courses and taster sessions when dates are confirmed.
Designed for clinical dental professionals who want to gain sound knowledge of laser-tissue interaction. The course aims to provide evidence-based core knowledge in laser use in dentistry in order to benefit your patients’ experiences and outcomes.
- Fellowship in Laser Dentistry
This blended-learning CPD course is designed for clinical dental professionals who want to gain a sound knowledge of, and experience with, laser-tissue interaction. - Fellowship in Laser Dentistry for Hygienists and Therapists
This blended-learning two-day CPD course is designed for dental hygienists and therapists who want to understand and gain experience in using laser therapy in their daily practice. - Laser Dentistry: An Introduction (online)
This online CPD course is designed for clinical dental professionals who want to gain sound knowledge of laser-tissue interaction.
We will be scheduling more 2025-26 dates for Laser Dentistry courses soon. Contact us to receive notice of courses and taster sessions when dates are confirmed.
- Hypnosis and Hypnotic Communication in Dentistry
A four-day course on using hypnotherapy in dentistry. Learn ways to address issues faced by patients and practitioners regarding anxiety phobic responses to treatment and fear concerning pain. For dentists, dental hygienists, therapists and nurses. - Practical Restorative Tips for Dental Therapists: Part 1
This one-day course for dental therapists aims to strengthen your skills in diagnosing and planning restorative treatment for anterior teeth. - Practical Restorative Tips for Dental Therapists: Part 2
This one-day course for dental therapists will strengthen your skills in diagnosing and planning restorative treatment for posterior teeth for situations including routine cases and dental emergencies. - Postoperative Care: Suture Removal for Nurses, Hygienists and Therapists
This one-day course is for dental care professionals who assist in surgical procedures. It will enable you to be confident and competent in removing sutures after the wound has been checked by a dentist. You'll also learn how to support your patients with postoperative care. - Fellowship in Laser Dentistry for Dental Hygienists and Therapists
This two-day CPD course is designed for dental hygienists and therapists who want to understand and gain experience in using laser therapy in their daily practice. - Prescribing Radiographs + Portfolio of Cases
This one-day course will up-skill dental therapists and hygienists so that they can confidently prescribe radiographs as an extended duty. - Nutrition Workshop for Dental Hygienists and Therapists Part 1
A one-day workshop to help you introduce nutrition management to your everyday practice. - Nutrition Workshop for Dental Hygienists and Therapists Part 2
This one-day workshop will provide an in-depth look at nutritional biochemistry from a cellular level. It'll also cover the role of the gut microbiome relevant to systemic inflammation and periodontal disease.
We will be scheduling more 2025-26 dates for Hygienist and Therapist courses soon. Contact us to receive notice of courses and taster sessions when dates are confirmed.
Dental Nurses have unique CPD needs based on working with and supporting their dentists and patients. A competent, confident and efficient dental nurse can make all the difference to patients and the practice as a whole.
- Postoperative Care: Suture Removal for Nurses, Hygienists and Therapists
This one-day course is for dental care professionals who assist in surgical procedures. It will enable you to be confident and competent in removing sutures after the wound has been checked by a dentist. You'll also learn how to support your patients with postoperative care. - Implant Dentistry for Dental Nurses
A one-day course that aims to provide dental nurses with an introduction to implant dentistry. - Conscious Sedation for Dental Nurses
This two-day course will improve your theoretical and practical understanding of conscious sedation.
We will be scheduling more 2025-26 dates for Dental Nurse courses soon. Contact us to receive notice of courses and taster sessions when dates are confirmed.
Restorative dentistry forms the backbone of contemporary primary care dentistry. The field of restorative dentistry is constantly evolving as new techniques and materials are developed and the requirement for dentists to keep up-to-date becomes progressively more challenging and potentially rewarding.
- Contemporary Minimally Invasive Techniques In Dental Practice
This one-day face-to-face course is designed to teach a contemporary approach towards tooth conservation. - Restorative Dentistry: Plan, Prep and Provisionalise
A one-day course to strengthen your skills and confidence in designing and executing indirect restorations. Optimise restorative techniques to get better results in your everyday clinical practice. For general dental practitioners. - Practical Restorative Tips for Dental Therapists: Part 1
This one-day course for dental therapists aims to strengthen your skills in diagnosing and planning restorative treatment for anterior teeth. - Practical Restorative Tips for Dental Therapists: Part 2
This one-day course for dental therapists will strengthen your skills in diagnosing and planning restorative treatment for posterior teeth for situations including routine cases and dental emergencies. - Restorative Dentistry: Masterclass in Restorative Dentistry
A six-day course which aims to introduce step-by-step clinical procedures, materials and treatment planning concepts on popular topics in restorative dentistry. - Restorative Dentistry: Adhesive Techniques for Replacing Missing Teeth
A one-day course to develop skills and confidence in the design and execution of indirect resin-bonded bridges and direct provisional bridges to achieve better results in everyday clinical practice.
We will be scheduling more 2025-26 dates for Hygienist and Therapist courses soon. Contact us to receive notice of courses and taster sessions when dates are confirmed.
As recreational sport becomes more popular and the demands placed on professional athletes increase, the importance of good oral health is becoming recognised as essential to performance.
- Sports Dentistry: The Evolving Role of the Sports Dentist
This two-day, face-to-face course will introduce you to the concept of sports dentistry and explore the evolving role of the sports dentist.
We will be scheduling more 2025-26 dates for Sports Dentistry Therapist courses soon. Contact us to receive notice of courses and taster sessions when dates are confirmed.
- Removable Prosthodontics: Complete Dentures
This two-day course will highlight the knowledge and skills you need to assess, treatment plan and treat patients requiring conventional complete dentures. - Removable Prosthodontics: Partial Dentures
This two-day course will look at the principles of partial denture construction.
We will be scheduling more 2025-26 dates for Prosthodontics courses soon. Contact us to receive notice of courses and taster sessions when dates are confirmed.
- Periodontology: General Principles of Surgical Techniques
A one-day hands-on course to further dental surgeons' understanding of surgical concepts and techniques. Covers biological concepts of soft and hard tissue management during surgery, healing processes, and relevant surgical skills. - Periodontology: Masterclass in Periodontics
A five-day hands-on course for dentists who want a deeper understanding of periodontology. The emphasis is on diagnosis, treatment planning and clinical management, and the role of periodontics in the daily clinical practice.
We will be scheduling more 2025-26 dates for Periodontology courses soon. Contact us to receive notice of courses and taster sessions when dates are confirmed.
Online courses
- Digital Dental Photography
In this three-hour online CPD course, Dr Robert Stone will provide you with the knowledge and practical advice required to take consistently good, clear, dental photographs for documenting your cases. - Oral Cancer: An Update for General Dental Practice
Rates of oral cancer are increasing and it's presenting in people beyond those traditionally considered at-risk. This one-hour online course, presented by Professor Stephen Porter, will help you understand aspects of oral cancer and related disease relevant to the primary oral healthcare setting. - Laser Dentistry: An Introduction
This five-hour online CPD course is designed for clinical dental professionals who want to gain sound knowledge of laser-tissue interaction. The course aims to provide evidence-based core knowledge in laser use in dentistry in order to benefit your patients’ experiences and outcomes. After completing this course, you will be eligible to register for the Fellowship in Laser Dentistry six-day face-to-face course in London.
CPD courses also run in anaesthesia and sedation; hypnosis; and nutrition. View the full list of courses for details.
Teaching spaces and clinical skills labs
Our new state-of-the-art teaching and clinical skills spaces - on UCL's Bloomsbury campus in central London - ensure our students have access to the latest equipment and techniques. All in-person CPD courses take place at our main site: Rockefeller Building, 21 University Street, London WC1E 6DE.
