49 PhD programmes in Dentistry in Europe

At the Institute of Dentistry at University of Aberdeen, we offer postgraduate research degrees under the supervision of experts in the fields of Clinical & Population Health, Dental Education and Experimental & Translational Research.

The PhD in Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery programme at The University of Manchester enables you to undertake a research project that will improve understanding of the field.

The PhD in Orthodontics programme at The University of Manchester enables you to undertake a research project that will improve understanding of Orthodontics.

By studying the Dental Studies course at University of Plymouth, you will be joining a dynamic research community of students, academics and staff that are doing their bit to tackle some of the greatest problems impacting science and society. 

The PhD Clinical Dentistry programme at The University of Manchester enables you to undertake a research project that will improve understanding of Clinical Dentistry.

The Finnish Doctoral Programme in Oral Sciences (FINDOS-Turku) at University of Turku represents all fields of Oral Sciences and brings together preclinical and clinical researchers to encourage the exchange of knowledge and ideas and to support translational Dental research.

The PhD Endodontics programme at The University of Manchester enables you to undertake a research project that will improve understanding of Endodontics.

The Odontology programme offered by University of Gothenburg develops advanced research expertise in dental sciences, oral health, and clinical and preclinical odontological research.

The SciMed Doctoral College at the University of Bonn supports excellent students of Medicine and Dental Medicine during their doctoral thesis work.

The Faculty of Medicine at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf confers the academic title of Doctor of Dentistry (Dr. med. dent.) subject to completing regular doctoral examination proceedings.

The Oral Surgery programme from The University of Lancashire provides academic, professional, clinical and research training for dentists wanting to excel and specialise in dentistry.

Clinical Translational Medicine at Semmelweis University is a four-year, full-time PhD that equips physician-scientists to move discoveries “from bench to bedside”. You will design and run patient-centred studies—ranging from systematic reviews and registries to multi-centre clinical trials—while earning 240 ECTS in Hungary’s top medical faculty.

Medical doctors and dentists who have completed their Dental Medicine studies in Switzerland, as well as students of medicine and dentistry at a Swiss university, may submit their dissertation to the University of Bern Faculty of Medicine if it was supervised by a habilitated person of the Faculty of Medicine, or where such a person is the applicant.

The School of Clinical Dentistry is proud to provide a world-class research environment for our PhD students and the University of Sheffield is in the Russell Group Top Ten for research output.

There are about 150 researchers working on their Dentistry PhD research at ACTA at the University of Amsterdam. PhD-students at ACTA can be employees or guest researchers.

The primary objective of the Dentistry and Otorinolaryngology programme at Masaryk University is to deepen the theoretical knowledge and develop the ability to perform independent creative tasks in the field of basic and applied research in the context of the Otorhinolaryngology and Dentistry disciplines in the students.

The PhD in Dental Health Sciences programme at The University of Manchester enables you to undertake a research project that will improve understanding of Dental Health Sciences.

Many of our students go on to further study with our Dentistry research degrees at University of Leeds, including PhD study and more. 

The PhD programme in Dentistry is offered by the University of Oulu.

Basic Dental Science at The University of Manchester is a large area covering craniofacial genetics, stem cell biology and craniofacial development.