The Kuopio Institute of Dentistry educates dentists as health care professionals competent in the promotion of oral health, disease prevention, diagnostics, and holistic care, working in a multidisciplinary team environment.
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Studies
Basic degree studies in dentistry take 5.5 years (330 ECTS credits) and lead to a Licentiate degree in dentistry. From the onset, the studies emphasise the role of the dental health care system and dentists as part of holistic health care. The graduates will work as experts of the masticatory system, oral health promotion, disease prevention, diagnostics, and care, who also direct patients to other health care professionals as needed.
The education includes both the preclinical and clinical stages. During the first two years the emphasis of the preclinical stage is on basic knowledge, skills and proficiencies consisting mainly of theoretical medical studies. In the clinical stage from the third year onward, clinical work is learnt in a simulation environment. After that, students move on to the clinical stage working in the Teaching clinic under specialists.
After completing their fifth year, students have a compulsory six month practical placement at a health centre before graduating.
Research
Teaching at the Institute of Dentistry is based on high-quality research. Our aim is to build international-level research by recruiting top talent as the institute’s researchers and teachers and educating our own students in research.
The Kuopio Institute of Dentistry is part of FINDOS, the Finnish National Doctoral Research Programme. The FINDOS network includes all dental schools (Helsinki, Kuopio, Turku and Oulu) in Finland. FINDOS arranges national educational research seminars and seminar days, which the network’s doctoral students can use in the theoretical part of the PhD studies.
The aim of the institute’s high-quality research is to discover the underlying mechanisms of oral diseases, develop their prevention and treatment, and promptly give access to new research data in the health care system.
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Become a patient at the teaching clinic
- Contact your municipality's oral healthcare to make an appointment
- At the clinic, notify the staff of your wish to be treated at the teaching clinic
- As a patient at the teaching clinic, you will receive a 20 % reduction on your usual fee according to the clinic price list
The work at the teaching clinic includes instruction: the oral examination, diagnosis and treatment are always inspected by a dental teacher. The treatment plan and its cost estimate are drawn up in cooperation with the patient. Due to the instructing, more time should be reserved for dental care at the teaching clinic. In demanding procedures, the treatment procedure can be performed, if necessary, by a specialist dentist teacher, assisted by the student.
Contact information for the patient office
- Open Mon–Thu 8 am – 3 pm, Fri 8 am – 1 pm
- Tel. +358 44 7179 501 and +358 44 7179 502 (calling times Mon–Fri 8 am – 11 am and 1 pm – 2 pm)
- Tel. +358 44 7179 512 (voicemail open 24 hours)
- Visiting address: Kuopio, Yliopistonranta 1 C
(Canthia building, staircase D, 4th floor)
Contact information
Postal address
University of Eastern Finland
Institute of Dentistry
P.O. Box 1627
FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland
Street address
Yliopistonranta 1 C, Canthia building, staircase B
