Master's Degree in
Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics
Entrance exam: 6st June
Dentistry graduates or medical doctors specializing in oral medicine
Santiago Arias Luxan
Double specialization in future-oriented fields
Specific training to aid your professional development
We are different because…
1. We train you to specialize in orthodontics
Those with a bachelor's degree in dentistry require further postgraduate training to be able to diagnose, plan and carry out basic orthodontic treatment. For this reason, CEU UCH can offer you a complete training package to enable you to become a full-time orthodontist. This comprises two study programmes: the Master's Degree in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics and the Lifelong Learning Master Programme in Orthodontics. This will enable you to gain the expertise and experience you need to provide orthodontic treatment safely and confidently.
2. The aim is to produce new specialists in orthodontics, trained to highest European standards (NEBEOP).
To do this, our students receive a solid and wide-ranging grounding in theory; they are encouraged to think critically, to reason, and to take evidence-based decisions; and they are given the opportunity to put everything they have learned into practice by dealing with real patients at the University's Dental Clinic.
3. The complete programme consists of more than 3000 in-person hours, of which more than 2000 are spent in the clinic treating patients, with each student being assigned more than 50 patients over the three-year period.
Objectives
- To enable dentists and doctors specializing in oral medicine to become specialists in orthodontics and dentofacial orthopaedics by means of a solid and wide-ranging theoretical and practical grounding in the different methods of assessing, analysing, diagnosing patients and planning and providing treatment.
- To ensure students have robust knowledge of biomedicine, anatomy, physiology, histology and craneofacial biomechanics.
- To encourage students to consider published scientific research with a critical eye within each thematic unit and thereby to enable them to acquire evidence-based knowledge with practical applications.
- To enable students to apply, safely and confidently, all of the knowledge and skills acquired during simulations using typodonts.
- To enable students to become familiar with and use the analogue and digital tools needed for clinical assessment and diagnosis in orthodontics and dentofacial orthopaedics.
- To enable students to design and create the appliances needed when working with typodonts and real patients.
- To enable students to become familiar with the leading and cutting-edge approaches, techniques and appliances in the field, while also being completely at ease with older methods which were key in the development of modern techniques.
- To provide students with firm and coherent criteria with which to make differential diagnoses and logical and sensible treatment plans, through an interdisciplinary approach.
- To enable students to communicate and collaborate effectively with others in interdisciplinary teams.
Before you begin the admission process, check that you meet the specific admission requirements for the Master's Degree in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics. To be admitted, you must apply for a place on both study programmes (the Master's Degree in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics and the Lifelong Learning Master Programme in Orthodontics) as they form a complete training package; if your application is successful, you will be admitted to both components.
Transformational Competencies Training Plan
The University offers its students the Transformational Competencies Training Plan, to provide them with learning opportunities to further enhance employability and career prospects.
The Transformational Competencies Training Plan at CEU is made up of four practical modules, structured around key soft skills and competencies.
Soft skills are an essential part of the armoury of today's professionals. The ever-changing working environment means that the ability to adapt and relate to others effectively is more important than ever. And not only will you get the chance to develop these skills - you can gain a microcredential to prove it.
Want to know more?Each module consists of four hours of in-person training sessions and you can agree a flexible training schedule with the instructor to suit your learning needs. This schedule will consist of a blend of practical and dynamic activities, a run-through of some theory, self-assessment exercises, peer feedback and some space for reflection.
What is a master's degree?
Master's degrees (máster universitario) are postgraduate qualifications which are accredited by quality assurance agencies for higher education at both a national and regional level in Spain. For CEU UCH, this means that they are accredited by ANECA (Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación), and AVAP (Agència Valenciana D’Avaluació i Prospectiva), respectively. This makes them different from certain other postgraduate programmes in Spain, which may be specific to a given university and are known as títulos propios, which do not require such external accreditation.
This quality assurance process means that Spanish master's degrees are recognized as valid in any country in the European Higher Education Area.
Students with a master's degree are eligible for doctoral programmes.
With regard to civil service selection processes in Spain, master's degrees carry more weight than títulos propios, which are classified as part of lifelong learning. Both types of qualification are perceived as valuable in the private sector.
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End-of-Master's Degree Project
For the End-of-Master’s Degree Project, or TFM, students must undertake a project or research study which draws on and examines different explanations, theories, and ideas with regard to a specific issue. By doing so, students will learn how to plan a process, to apply research principles and skills (literature searches, data analysis and interpretation, etc.), to engage in problem-solving in an autonomous manner and to communicate and defend their point of view efficiently and professionally.
Regulations
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The faculty of the University Master's Degree in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics is composed of:
- Santiago Arias De Luxan
Professor Doctor.
Médico - Stomatologist/Orthodontist - Raquel Laparra Hernández
Professor Doctor.
Dentist/Orthodontist - Inmaculada Soler Segarra
External Professor.
Doctor. Physician - Stomatologist/Orthodontist - Francisco Bosch Morell
University Professor.
Doctor of Pharmacy - Alfonso Borja Morant
Associate University Professor.
Physician/Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon - Genoveva Borja Morant
External Professor.
Dentist / Orthodontist - Isabel Cañada Luna
External Professor.
Dentist / Orthodontist - Amparo Castañer Peiró
Professor Doctor.
Dentist/Orthodontist - Eduardo de Arriba Prieto
External Professor.
Dentist / Orthodontist - Marcela Ferrer Molina
External Professor.
Doctor of Dentistry - Raquel Guijarro Martínez
External Professor. Doctor.
Physician/Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Dentist. - Arlinda Luzi Luzi
Professor Doctor.
Dentist - Miguel Peris Godoy
Professor Doctor.
Physician-Internist
- Isabel Riñón Corts
External Professor.
Dentist / Orthodontist. - Ana Sánchez Albero
University Assistant.
Doctor of Dentistry / Orthodontist - Salvatore Sauro
Professor.
Doctor of Dentistry - Paloma Valero Remohí
Associate Professor.
Dentist / Orthodontist - Jesús Veres Jordá
External Professor.
Dentist / Orthodontist - Consuelo Rubio Guerri
External Professor.
Dentist / Orthodontist - Nicolau Pizza Morro
External Professor.
Dentist / Orthodontist - Laura Cortés Bañon
External Professor.
Dentist / Orthodontist - Melissa Alves Páez
External Professor.
Dentist / Orthodontist - Beatriz Clemente Guadalajara
External Professor.
Dentist / Orthodontist - Juan Martínez Font
Professor Doctor.
Dentist / Orthodontist - Mar Torrella
Professor Doctor.
Dentist / Orthodontist - Sara Molina
University Assistant. Doctor.
Dentist / Orthodontist
From a placement to the job of your dreams
For many students, postgraduate programmes are a springboard for them to launch their careers. And that's exactly what we want for you too. With us, you'll get real industry experience during your placement, you'll develop key personal competencies and you'll learn from lecturers who are active professionals.
¿Do you want to know more? >>Compulsory placements
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- Framework regulations for the external practical training of university students.PDF
More information
Mireia Burdeus Nadal
Careers Service - Postgraduate Unit.
- Entrance exam date: June
- Start date: September
- Duration: September to July (2 years)
- Required attendance: Monday to Friday, 8 am to 2 pm and 3.30 pm to 7.30 pm
Lecture timetable
- 2024/25 timetablesLINK
Memory and reports
Survey results
Surveys are carried out to gauge the satisfaction of different groups with the degree, and the resultant reports enable the programme’s main strengths and weaknesses to be identified. Together with other indicators, this can form the basis for improvement plans. + info
Monitoring
Three years after their launch or reaccreditation, all degrees are evaluated by AVAP. The aim is to ensure that the programme is being carried out in accordance with the officially approved curriculum. + info
The quality objectives of the Master's Degree in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics are under permanent monitoring and review. To this end:
- An internal monitoring report (ISI) is drawn up every year, on the basis of the indicators and evidence from the Internal Quality Assurance System (SAIC, its Spanish abbreviation). The report provides an analysis of the degree’s operations, makes proposals for improvement, and monitors results and progress.
Monitoring reports
Suggestion mailbox
Guidelines
- All members of the university community and stakeholders can submit suggestions, complaints or messages of thanks.
- Suggestions, complaints or messages of thanks can be expressed individually or on behalf of a team.
- To submit a suggestion, complaint or message of thanks, you must provide the personal data requested in the form, or the submission will not be processed.
- The suggestions mailbox can be accessed directly from the website. It functions via email, meaning that replies will be sent to the user via the specified email address.
- The Strategic Development and Quality Unit will forward the suggestions, complaints or messages of thanks to the corresponding unit or department heads, who will then reply to the user who submitted them.
- The Strategic Development and Quality Unit will only play the role of intermediary and has no decision-making capacity in this respect.
- The mailbox is open to public submissions, but submissions themselves will not be made public: only the Strategic Development and Quality Unit will have access to them.
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Regulations
- Regulations for the Continuation of Studies on Master's Degrees
- Royal Decree 822/2021, of 28th September, regarding the organization of educational programmes at universities and the quality assurance of such programmes
- Regulations Concerning University-Specific and Lifelong Learning Programmes
- Regulations on the Recognition and Transfer of Credits
- Contract for the Waiving of Intellectual Property Rights
- Regulations Concerning Continuous Assessment at CEU UCH.
- General Regulations Concerning End-Of-Degree Projects (TFG) and End-Of-Master’s Degree Projects (TFM).
- Framework Regulations for the External Practical Training of University Students
View all the CEU Cardenal Herrera University regulations here
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All the University’s degree programmes are assessed by the Spanish government’s quality assurance agency for higher education, ANECA. The University draws up a report (memoria) containing all the information concerning a new degree it wishes to offer and sends this to ANECA for it to review and approve. This approval process for the degree programme culminates with it being placed on the official record of universities and degrees in Spain, known as RUCT, with this being last step prior to its ratification by the governmental body responsible for coordination with Universities, the Consejo de Universidades. ANECA, in turn, sends back a final report (informe final) recording the approval or “verification” of the degree, and may also send further approval reports (informes de aprobación) for each modification that the University makes to the initial memoria for the degree. The implementation report (informe de implementación) is issued by the quality assurance agency in higher education of the Valencian regional government, AVAP. A favourable implementation report is essential for the Consejo de Universidades to approve the provision of the degree programme. Either six or eight years after a degree begins operation (depending on its duration), it must undergo a further round of external assessment in order to renew its verified status. This assessment is undertaken by AVAP. If successful, a renewal report (informe de renovación) is issued. |
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The University undertakes a range of surveys to acquire stakeholder feedback regarding its degrees. The following are undertaken annually:
The following are undertaken every two years:
The results are indicators for the Internal Quality Assurance System (SAIC) and are studied by the internal monitoring committee (CSI) for the degree. Improvements may then be suggested in the internal monitoring report (ISI) for the degree. |
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The degree is subject to two monitoring processes:
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General competencies
Specific competencies
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CareersHolders of the Master's Degree in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics will be able to practise as specialists in orthodontics and dentofacial orthopaedics at both public and private facilities. |
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Raquel Laparra Hernández
“I've been working as an orthodontist since I finished the programme (2013) and it's all thanks to what the lecturers taught me. I think it's a really complete postgraduate programme, regarding both the theory and practice. You get to look at a wide range of cases: children, teenagers, adults, and surgical cases. This enable you to learn about a wide range of diagnoses and possible treatments. And that's not only due to the variety of cases you see but also to the wide range of specialization of the lecturers. It is a full-time programme, meaning that you do have to dedicate three years of your life to it. But I don't regret it at all - I'm thankful for everything I learnt.”