As a dentist you'll provide direct patient care, focusing on the prevention, evaluation, diagnosis, treatment (surgical and non-surgical) and management of diseases and abnormalities affecting:
- teeth
- jaws
- gums
- soft tissues of the mouth.
As a member of a dental team, you may be employed in hospital, community, school-based and teaching facilities. You may have access to providing treatment under relative analgesia or general anaesthesia. You may also work in management, governance and policy development roles.
Queensland Health also offers employment opportunities for registered dental specialists in a range of areas including:
- Endodontics
- Orthodontics
- Paediatrics
- Periodontics
- Prosthodontics
- Special needs dentistry
- Oral and maxillofacial surgery
- Dental-maxillofacial radiology
- Oral medicine
- Oral pathology
- Public health dentistry (community dentistry).
I truly believe that the mouth is the doorway to good health. Dentistry is a career with terrific opportunities for travel, life experience and career development, but the most rewarding thing for me is seeing the happy smiles of the patients.