Dentistry

The Faculty offers academic programmes at the undergraduate, postgraduate and Ph.D. levels. Its dentistry training programme, which results in a Doctor of Dental Medicine  (D.M.D.) degree is available in three languages: Hungarian, English and German.Each year, 95-100 first-year Hungarian students begin their studies at the Faculty, while there are a total of  some 70-80 foreign students enrolled in the English and German language programmes. The total number of dental students studying at the Faculty is near 800. The Dental Faculty has 100 full and part time professors and tutors. The major theoretical and clinical subjects are taught by the Faculty of Medicine.The Faculty of Dentistry has an accredited Ph.D. program called Research in the Dental Sciences.Health CareThe Faculty’s health care activities primarily serve the education of our dental students; nevertheless, the faculty members are also specialists of their own professions, while the Faculty’s Practice serves the whole of Hungary, providing comprehensive dental care for those referred to the clinics by family dentists or other medical institutions.ResearchThe Faculty’s main field of research activity are: biomaterials; nanotechnonolgy; dental and periodontal epidemiology; gingival and pulp microcirculation; experimental gingivitis; salivary gland physiology; stem cells of pulpal and periodontal origin; membrane transports and signaling mechanisms; guided periodontal and bone regeneration; genetic polymorphism and periodontal disease; genetic polymorphism and tooth aplasia; complex therapy for oral cancer; three-dimensional tomography; the biological role of nitrogen monoxide.International RelationsThe Faculty has many scientific collaborations with nearly all developed European countries, as well as numerous Institutes from the U.S.Many of the senior faculty members are actively involved in international dental societies and are  on the editorial boards of several international journals.