We have had a look at over a hundred of the most common questions that can potentially come up when you are at Plymouth Dentistry Interviews. This section below is valuable knowledge and which will help you prepare for your Dental School Interview at Plymouth. The Plymouth Dental Teaching School is also known as The Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry. Also as just, The Plymouth University Peninsula School of Dentistry.

Student Dentist Interview Q&A

Over 100 of the core questions which can turn up at Dental School Interview Questions. These are examples and types which can be asked at MMI Stations as used by the admissions panel at The Plymouth University Peninsula School of Dentistry.

All 102 MMI Dentist School Interview Questions

1. Would you like to tell us about yourself and why you applied for dentistry?
2. What do you understand about dental ethics?
3. Tell us about your strengths and weaknesses? AND why do we ask this?
4. How do you go about addressing a weakness that you found about yourself?
5. What more could the government do to ensure people have a healthier diet?
6. Tell us about the sugar tax and what effect this has had?
7. Can you describe techniques that you observed at your work experience which dentists use to gain better communication with their patients?
8. What techniques did you see at your work experience for the elderly and the children?
9. Tell us when you used good communication skills?
10. Tell us about an occasion where you saw or used effective team working skills?
11. During your work experience what communication skills did you learn?
12. How would you go about describing a difficult procedure to a patient in a language that they can understand? How do you demonstrate that the patient has understood the relevant information?
13. What do you know about dental filling materials?
14. If you were concerned about absenteeism in one of your seminar group colleagues, how do you go about communicating to them?
15. If you found at your university that another colleague or friend was depressed, what would you do?
16. What qualities do dentists require in their work and can you give an example?
17. Tell us about yourself briefly? ( as an ice-breaker question.)
18. What is the difference between NHS and private dentistry?
19. How could the NHS be made to be more inclusive?
20. What would you do if you did not get accepted this year and a gap year was not an option for you?
21. What do you do in your time away from studies?
22. What kind of reading do you do in your leisure time and what do you benefit from this?
23. Tell us a time when you had to deal with a personal difficulty or challenge?
24. What is the role of a leader within a dental team? Who is the leader in a dental team?
25. Describe an occasion when you have had to use good leadership skills?
26. How do you deal with the stress of workload? What techniques work for you well?
27. Tell us a time when you made a mistake and what you did in response?
28. Tell us a time when you had to face a tough challenge?
29. What aspect of your personal statement did you find most difficult and what did you do about it?
30. What attracts you to the Peninsula Plymouth School of dentistry?
31.  Have you carried out a tour of the campus?
32. Why did you apply to the Peninsula Plymouth School of dentistry?
33. What challenges do you think you might face during the Five-Year undergraduate course at The Plymouth University Peninsula School of Dentistry?
34. What is Public Health Dentistry?
35. Give us an example that shows you have good empathy/caring skills?
36. What are the qualities that a good dentist requires?
37. What is the relationship between science and dentistry?
38. Do you know any relationship between systemic and oral health?
39. What is the role of a dental practice nurse?
40. How would you go about treating a patient whose first language was not English and the patient attends on their own?
41. What does a dental technician do as a team member?
42. What is the function of a dental nurse?
43. What does a dental therapist do?
44. What procedures can a dental therapist not carry out?
45. How is dentistry a fulfilling career?
46. What are the challenges of working as a dentist in general practice?
47. How would you deal with a patient who is not able to afford paying for their treatment which you deem necessary?
48. What attributes do effective and exemplary dentists possess?
49. What changes and challenges do you think dentistry will have to go through in the next 5-15 years?
50. Tell us about your extracurricular hovvies and sports? Why are these important to you?
51. Tell us why not medicine or pharmacy?
52. Tell us about the career pathways within dentistry after you qualify?
53.   Why should the panel pick you ahead of someone else who also has good grades?
54. Why not medicine or physiotherapy?
55. Why not become a dental nurse?
56. What do you know about the Care Quality Commission for England?
57. What do you know about the NHS NICE guidelines and give an example please?
58. How would you respond to criticism from a patient
59. How would you deal with a complaint from a new patient?
60. How would your friends describe you?
61. Why do you think we asked you the previous question?
62. Describe a time when you had to be honest with somebody?
63. What are the stressful aspects of work within dentistry?
64. What do you know about NHS dental care services?
65. What do you know about private dental care?
66. Tell us what you understand by informed consent and what is valid consent?
67. Tell us what are the important aspects by consent in dentistry?
68. What is the difference between valid consent and informed consent?
69. What is the role of the GDC?
70. Why dentistry?
71. How do dentists manage very phobic patients?
72. What do you know about amalgam as a filling material?
73. What is the importance of fluoride when it is added into water?
74. Tell us about a time when you demonstrated a caring manner?
75. Tell us about a time when you added to carry out extra responsibilities?
76. what are the factors that influence dental decay in children?
77. What are the factors that influence gum disease?
78. What is the effect of smoking on oral health?
79. What do you know about mouth cancer?
80. What is the duty of candour?
81. What is the whistle blowing policy within a dental context?
82. What is the importance of lifelong learning
83. How would you deal with an emergency patient who comes to the practice without an appointment and you have other patients booked ahead?
84. What is Gillick consent?
85. What is competency within consent and how is it verified?
86. What can you tell us about the Montgomery case?
87. What can you tell us about the Bolam test?
88. Tell us about a time when you surpassed at something?
89. What do you think about buying tooth whitening products online?
90. Should patients be able to buy orthodontic aligners online?
91. Is NHS orthodontic treatment a cosmetic or a dental necessity?
92. How would you treat a patient who insists on having his tooth taken out when you know that you can save it?
93. Tell us about any new  innovations within dentistry?
94. When you feel overwhelmed with things, how do you cope?
95. When did you see good communication skills in your work experience?
96. What do you know about erosion in teeth?
97. What do you know about root canal treatment for teeth?
98. What do you know about dentures and their advantages?
99. What do you know about gum disease?
100. What do you know about cosmetic dental procedures?
101. Can you describe what you see in this picture? ( the candidate is shown a dentally relevant picture.)
102. Do you have any questions for us? 
103. How did the Covid pandemic affect dental care for the elderly?

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