Presentation of the Division of Dental Technology

This unit is a brief presentation of the Department and its main parameters of function.

Location of the Division.

The Division of Dental Technology is located at the University of West Attica of Athens, in Ag. Spyridonos str., Aegaleo and sheltered under the School of Health and Care Sciences.

History of the development of the former Department and now Division of Dental Technology.

The former Department of Dental Technology has been in function since 1983 by the establishment law for TEI (Technological and Educational Institute) 1404/83, which set the structure and function of the Technological Educational Institutions and is the continuation of the Dental Technicians Department which had been in function since 1973 under KATE-KATEE (Centres of Higher Technological and Professional Education), in the area of higher education.

The Division of Dental Technology

The Division of  Dental Technology is part of the Department of Biomedical Sciences which belongs to the School of Health and Care  Sciences of the University of West Attica of Athens and is the only division among the  university departments in Greece which provides complete education in the field of DENTAL TECHNOLOGY.

Students are admitted to the Department of Biomedical Sciences either after having passed successfully the country wide Entrance Exams or according to the current laws and regulations about transfer from one school or institution to another.

Today, the number of students who are admitted by the Department of Biomedical Sciences, is 400 and the total number of students who attend our studies program of the Division of Dental Technology is about 259.

The studies in the Division of Dental Technology, according to the new, revised curriculum which, lasts eight (8) semesters in which students take theory and laboratory courses. Τhe academic year which lasts from September 1 until July 6, consists of two semesters.  The winter semester begins in late September and the spring in late February. The exact beginning and end dates are determined each time by decisions taken by the Council of  the University of West Attica and are announced at the beginning of each year. After the completion of the courses, at the end of each semester, there is a two week testing period.