Certified Enhanced Skills

Nowadays, getting a qualification is not enough to show your capability at a more advanced level, and getting more qualifications is just not an appropriate step for many advanced practitioners in dentistry. We have the answer.

The College is working with stakeholders across the professional community to introduce a new system of credentialing – Certified Practitioner:

• specific to key areas of practice in primary care dentistry
• validating the skills that you have acquired
• demonstrating that you have acquired a wealth of experience in practice, over time
• showing that your experience is underpinned with sound foundations of knowledge
• re-certified every five years

For dentists

Our clinical credentialing is benchmarked against Level 2 complexity of treatment, and typically aligns with the capability demonstrated in a skills-based postgraduate diploma.

Certified Practitioner recognition will shortly be open to applications in the following fields of practice:

• Endodontics
• Implant Dentistry

Orthodontics and Oral Surgery are expected to be open to applications in the next phase of development.

Other team roles

We are working to develop Certified Practitioner schemes of enhanced skills for all roles in the oral healthcare team, for roll-out from 2025.