What is temporary registration?
Posts approved for temporary registration by the GDC allow dentists to work in dental schools or hospitals. Apart from these approved settings, temporary registration will not currently allow dentists to work in general or private practice, or in community dental services. You can therefore apply for registration only for the following purposes; • Postgraduate Study/Training • To allow you to have postgraduate training in a post approved by one of the Royal Surgical Colleges of the UK. You can get information about postgraduate dental education from the National Advice Centre for Postgraduate Dental Education (see below for contact details). • Teaching • To allow you to give clinical demonstrations as part of a lecture or to accept a teaching appointment on the staff of a dental school or hospital. • Research • To allow you to carry out clinical procedures as part of research work in a dental school or hospital. Dentists with temporary registration can practise only under the supervisi
