Paediatric Dentistry — UK dental training 2026

Paediatric Dentistry: 2026 was the final ST4 recruitment year. ST1 recruitment now leads to a four-year run-through programme. Any ST4 entries below are historical 2026 listings. NHS England curriculum and recruitment update.

Where you can train in paediatric dentistry in 2026: 94 DCT places at 49 sites · 14 StR centres · 5 London/KSS StR posts · 1 academic (ACF) post in NIHR's 2027 allocation.

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DCT posts including Paediatric Dentistry

Site	Town	Region	Places
St George's Hospital	London (Tooting)	London	6
Newcastle Dental Hospital	Newcastle upon Tyne	North East	6
Glasgow Dental Hospital & School	Glasgow	Scotland	5
Birmingham Children's Hospital	Birmingham	West Midlands	5
UCLH Eastman Dental Hospital	London (Bloomsbury)	London	4
Alder Hey Children's Hospital	Liverpool	North West	4
School of Dentistry, Royal Victoria Hospital	Belfast	Northern Ireland	4
Edinburgh Dental Institute	Edinburgh	Scotland	4
Birmingham Dental Hospital (BCHC)	Birmingham	West Midlands	4
East Surrey Hospital	Redhill	Kent, Surrey and Sussex	3
King's College Hospital (Dental Institute)	London (Denmark Hill)	London	3
KCHFT North East London Outreach Dental Service (borough-wide)	NE London (outreach)	London	3
University Dental Hospital of Manchester	Manchester	North West	3
Aintree University Hospital	Liverpool	North West	3
William Harvey Hospital	Ashford (Kent)	Kent, Surrey and Sussex	2
Guy's Hospital (GSTT)	London (Southwark)	London	2
Bromley Healthcare CDS	Bromley	London	2
Royal London Dental Hospital (Barts Health)	London (Whitechapel)	London	2
Gateshead & South Tyneside CDS	Gateshead	North East	2
Liverpool University Dental Hospital	Liverpool	North West	2
Dundee Dental Hospital & School	Dundee	Scotland	2
Bristol Dental Hospital / UHBW	Bristol	South West	2
Hull Royal Infirmary / CHCP	Hull	Yorkshire and the Humber	2
Northamptonshire Community Dental Service	Northampton	East Midlands	1
Community Dental Services CIC (Norfolk & Waveney)	Norwich	East of England	1
Great Ormond Street Hospital	London (Bloomsbury)	London	1
CLCH Dental (St Charles Centre for Health & Care)	London (North Kensington)	London	1
Whittington Hospital / CHS	London (Archway)	London	1
Northumbria CDS (Albion Road Resource Centre; also Wansbeck, Ashington)	North Shields	North East	1
Tees CDS / County Durham & Darlington CDS (split week; CDD base Chester-le-Street)	Stockton-on-Tees	North East	1
Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital	Blackburn	North West	1
Royal Preston Hospital	Preston	North West	1
PDS Chalmers Dental Centre	Edinburgh	Scotland	1
PDS East Kilbride	East Kilbride	Scotland	1
Forth Valley Royal Hospital	Larbert	Scotland	1
Prince Charles Hospital	Merthyr Tydfil	Wales	1
Holywell Community Hospital	Holywell	Wales	1
University Dental Hospital	Cardiff	Wales	1
Worcestershire Royal Hospital / Worcester CDS	Worcester	West Midlands	1
Pinderfields Hospital (Mid Yorkshire)	Wakefield	Yorkshire and the Humber	1
York Hospital	York	Yorkshire and the Humber	1
Charles Clifford Dental Hospital / Sheffield Teaching Hospitals	Sheffield	Yorkshire and the Humber	1
Addenbrooke's Hospital (CUH)	Cambridge	East of England	0
Community Dental Services CIC (Colchester Primary Care Centre)	Colchester	East of England	0
KSS Middle Years Pilot	Crawley	Kent, Surrey and Sussex	0
London Middle Years Pilot (North)	London	London	0
PDS Broxden Dental Centre	Perth	Scotland	0
PDS Kings Cross Health & Community Care Centre	Dundee	Scotland	0
Harrogate CDS	Harrogate	Yorkshire and the Humber	0

Specialty (StR) training centres

Liverpool University Dental Hospital

Liverpool

University Dental Hospital of Manchester

Manchester

Leeds Dental Institute

Leeds

Charles Clifford Dental Hospital

Sheffield

Newcastle Dental Hospital

Newcastle upon Tyne

Birmingham Dental Hospital

Birmingham

Bristol Dental Hospital

Bristol

King's College Hospital Dental Institute

London (Denmark Hill)

Guy's Hospital (GSTT)

London (Southwark)

Royal London Dental Hospital (Barts Health)

London (Whitechapel)

UCLH Eastman Dental Hospital

London (Bloomsbury)

Glasgow Dental Hospital & School

Glasgow

Edinburgh Dental Institute

Edinburgh

Dundee Dental Hospital & School

Dundee

DST recruitment — Paediatric Dentistry (ST1) (source table labelled 2024)

The official vacancy page labels its table as the 2024 recruitment round, alongside a 2026 curriculum update. Those figures are not reproduced as 2026 numbers.

Official recruitment page

DST recruitment — Paediatric Dentistry (ST4) (2026 final recruitment year)

The former ST4 hub no longer displays vacancy content. 2026 was the final recruitment year; no regional figures are held in this dataset.

Official recruitment page

London & KSS post-level listings 2026

Paediatric Dentistry ST1 — Guy's & St Thomas' · JD (PDF)
Paediatric Dentistry ST1 — UCLH Eastman Dental Hospital · JD (PDF)
Paediatric Dentistry ST1 — King's College Hospital · JD (PDF)
Paediatric Dentistry ST1 — Barts Health (Royal London) · JD (PDF)
Paediatric Dentistry ST4 — UCLH Eastman Dental Hospital · JD (PDF)

Academic (NIHR ACF) posts — 2027 allocation

UCL Eastman Dental Institute — DCT | Paediatric Dentistry

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