• Dalhousie University offers a Bachelor of Dental Hygiene for a duration of 1 year.
  • It is an on-campus program offered on a full-time basis.
  • Students to the 1-year Bachelor of Dental Hygiene (BDH) completion program must have previously obtained a Diploma in Dental Hygiene from an accredited program in Canada or the United States and must be licensed or eligible for licensure to practice in Nova Scotia.
  • This course schedule might include alternative practice settings, entrepreneurship skills, and teaching methods.
  • In this program, students will learn about a wide variety of topics in the dental and medical professions.
  • An emphasis is placed on technology, hands-on experience, and applications students will use in their careers, such as digital patient health records.
  • Samples courses that bachelors students can take are:
    • Nutrition for Preventive Dentistry
    • Oral Anatomy and Dental Histology
    • Dental Hygiene Clinic
  • This program will prepare students for alternative clinical practice sites, research, and teaching.
  • In compliance with Dalhousie’s academic regulations, students must complete at least 45 credit hours at Dalhousie to be granted a degree. 
  • The program makes students eligible for a license to practice dental hygiene and is fully accredited by the Commission of Dental Accreditation of Canada (CDAC).
  • In Dalhousie’s Faculty of Dentistry, students will be benefited from a current, dynamic, scientific, and professional education in a learning environment that is positive and student-centered.
  • Job opportunities after the Bachelor of Dental Hygiene are Dental Health Policy Advisor, Dental Hygienists, Dental Therapists, etc and the average salary goes up to 42,005 USD.