Connect with a dental student for treatment at FDM
It happens in a clinic at the Faculty of Dental Medicine, under a qualified dentist from the department. Without their approval the case does not count towards the student’s programme. Nobody there is selling you anything.
Why this is safe
What is actually standing behind the chair
- The teacher signs the work off
- Every stage is carried out under the supervision of a qualified dentist from the department, who observes and signs the work off. That is not a formality: without their approval the case does not count towards the student’s programme. The student needs your case approved. That is the only thing they need from you.
- You get the long appointment
- Appointments in a teaching clinic run longer than in private practice. The student works more slowly, because they are learning and because each step is checked. For a patient that means attention a busy schedule rarely allows.
- Nobody is selling you anything
- The student needs your particular case for their quota, not your money. There is no commercial reason to propose treatment you do not need — probably the most underrated difference of all.
None of this makes a student better than a qualified dentist, and this page will not tell you it does. It makes the incentives different, and the difference is the part you can check.
Where money is, and where it is not
- UniDent
- Takes nothing from a patient for using the platform. Searching, profiles and booking are all free.
- The faculty
- The examination is free. Anything after it is a fee the faculty sets, collects and changes — not this platform. Confirm what is payable on site before treatment starts.
- €15.00 if you miss a confirmed visit without cancelling. You cannot book again until it is settled, and you can dispute it — a person reads it.
You do not have to find anyone
Nothing about the clinic changes here. Same faculty, same teacher, same chair. What changes is that you stop being the one doing the looking.
You do not have to pick a student, and you do not have to go and ask. Say which faculty you can get to and what is bothering you, and the case sits where the students at that faculty can read it. A student who can take it asks you directly — and you answer yes or no, from your account. No is a complete answer and costs you nothing.
The list a student reads asks for the case and does not ask for you. Your name, your email address and your phone number are not in it at all.
- the city of your faculty
- the treatment you named
- what you wrote in your own words, and only after a student has put their name to taking the case on
- your name
- your email address
- your phone number
We are new, and we are growing on both sides at once. If nobody takes your case straight away it stays where students can see it for 3 months, and you can add to the description or withdraw it from your account at any time.
How it works
Five steps, and you can stop at any of them.
You create a free account and confirm your email.
You say which faculty you can get to and what is bothering you. That is part of the same form.
A student at that faculty asks to take your case on, and you answer yes or no. Or you open the profiles and ask a student yourself.
You exchange phone numbers and emails the moment you accept, and you agree a time.
You attend the faculty, and a teacher checks the work.
The rules, so you know them before you need them
- Your phone number and email reach the student the moment you accept. Not when they ask. Not while you are deciding.
- When you accept, that student has your name, phone number and email, and it cannot be taken back — which is why the platform asks you rather than deciding for you.
- If you cannot go, cancel from your account — at any point, at no charge.
- A confirmed visit sends you a reminder 48 hours before it, and again 24 hours before it.
- If the student does not answer within 7 days, the request closes itself, the hour goes back on offer, and we email you. Students have exams and clinical commitments; it happens.
- If you upload an X-ray with a request, it is deleted 6 months after upload, and you can delete it yourself at any time.
- Some cases need a specialist and will not be accepted in a teaching clinic. The student or their teacher will tell you.
Built for trust and transparency
This profile belongs to a dental student, not an independently practising dentist. Examinations and treatment take place only within the relevant faculty, according to its rules and under academic supervision. Sending or accepting a request through the platform does not guarantee that a particular treatment will be approved or performed.
Start here
Browse by treatment
Pick one and it arrives already ticked on the form. You can tick more than one there, and “I’m not sure” is a real answer — deciding which department your case belongs to is the student’s job, not yours.
Start with the examination
It is free at the faculty, it commits you to nothing, and it is the easiest way to find out what your teeth actually need. Create the account, say what is bothering you, and let a student take it from there.
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