CONFERENCEDentistry - second-cycle professional higher education study program
Programme level: second-cycle professional higher education
Language of instruction: Latvian
Study form and duration: full-time - 10 semesters
Credits: 300 ECTS
Obtainable degree or qualification: Dentist`s Degree
Number of study places for admission in 2025/2026: study places for tuition fee - 15
Tuition fee per year (ac. year 2025/26): 11 500 EUR
Study location: Riga
The study program prepares qualified specialists, whose theoretical and practical skills are appropriate to start practicing in General Dentistry independently. Upon successful completion of the program, the student acquires competencies in the examination of the condition of teeth and mouth, documentation of the obtained data, diagnosis and treatment planning of diseases of the mouth, face, and jaw area, restoration of tooth shape, function and aesthetics, etc. Graduates have complete knowledge of the structure and functions of healthy and damaged teeth, alveolar growth, oral mucosa, jaws, and related tissues, their connection to the patient's general health, physical and social well-being.
Program Director
Assoc. Prof. Arnolds Jezupovs
The study programme comprises several components like biomedical subjects, common to medicine and dentistry- progressing from cell biology and biochemistry to anatomy and physiology of the human body, pharmacology, pathology, microbiology, epidemiology and related sciences like psychology, ethics and practice management.
Appreciation of human development, structure, function, pathology, diagnosis and treatment of diseases will be taught in modular form based on the systems of human body. Oral and dental aspects of the biological sciences will ensure detailed knowledge of the structure and function of the oral and dental tissues and the related structures of the head and neck. These should lead to a progressive understanding of the diagnosis, causes, prevention and treatment of oral and dental diseases and disorders, and the effects of systemic disease on oral and dental tissues.
To obtain experience of the practice of dentistry, development students' clinical and manual skills, the clinical part has a significant role in the study plan. Clinical training includes treatment of patients under the supervision of clinical instructors. Clinical practice takes place in the 7th and 10th semester.
After obtaining a the degree and a professional certificate, graduates are entitled to begin working independently in health centers, private practices ot to establish their own practice. Graduates have access to residency or doctoral studies.
You can find out about the admission requirements for the study program by switching to the Latvian version of the website.
mdzf@lu.lv
