Paediatric Dentistry
Paediatric Dentistry is an extremely rewarding and enjoyable specialty, which allows you to experience and undertake all aspects of dental care in children.
Courses

Paediatric Dentistry DDent
A full-time, three-year programme taught with specialist-level clinical practice and including doctorate-level research.
Paediatric Dentistry MSc (Not running in 2025)
A part-time, three-year Master's programme that blends online, distance learning with hands-on skills lab training and face-to-face teaching.
Why Paediatric Dentistry?
Paediatric Dentistry is an extremely rewarding and enjoyable specialty, which allows you to experience and undertake all aspects of dental care in children. Guiding a child’s dental development so that they reach adulthood with a functional, aesthetic and pain free dentition is uniquely satisfying.
Why Eastman?
Our Paediatric Dentistry programmes train graduates to be able to diagnose, treatment plan and manage paediatric patients with a wide variety of conditions.
We provide an evidence-based approach to the specialty in a supportive environment. All our students undertake a research project a part of the course with many of them having their research accepted for publication.
Teaching is undertaken by senior academic and clinical staff, many of whom have roles in other organisations including the Royal College of Surgeons and the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry. Several of our staff are examiners for the Membership in Paediatric Dentistry Examinations.
Staff
- Professor Paul Ashley
- Dr Susan Parekh
- Gehan Abou Ameira

Our facilities
Learn more about our new teaching and clinical skills spaces and resources for our student community.
Contact and Visiting
The unit welcomes visits from prospective students to meet the Programme Directors, provided you meet all of the mandatory requirements for entry to the programme. Appointments to visit should be made at least two months in advance to aid with scheduling. For an appointment, contact the Programme Administrator.

Professor Paul Ashley
Programme Director (Paediatric Dentistry DDent)
Click to email. p.ashley@ucl.ac.uk
Professor Susan Parekh
Programme Director (Paediatric Dentistry MSc)
Click to email. s.parekh@ucl.ac.uk
Programme Administrator
Click to email. edi.paeds@ucl.ac.ukWhat our students say

Student testimonial - Elavarasi Kuppusamy
Elavarasi is from Malaysia and studied DDent Paediatric Dentistry at the Eastman Dental Institute.
21 May 2018