Dental Technology

Points history

This course has an extra assessment (test, interview, portfolio or audition), so the points above are combined scores rather than Leaving Cert points alone.

Source: official CAO points charts (cao.ie). A guide to previous years only.

What this course is like

Studying Dental Hygiene at degree level gives you a thorough grounding in oral health science, periodontology, preventive dentistry, and patient communication. You will develop hands-on clinical skills in scaling, polishing, root planing, and oral health education from early in the programme. A significant portion of your timetable takes place in a supervised dental clinic, where you treat real patients under the gui…

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