Overseas Registration Exam (ORE) Syllabus

Overseas Registration Exam (ORE) covers 8 subjects: Clinical Dentistry and Operative Procedures, Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine and Pathology, Human Disease, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Paediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, Oral Biology, Anatomy and Dental Materials Science, Radiology, Radiography and Diagnostic Imaging, Professionalism, Ethics, Law and Practice Management and Prevention, Public Health and Medical Emergencies. Together they contain 35 chapters and 130 named topics.

The full Overseas Registration Exam (ORE) outline breaks down into 35 chapters, 130 topics and 114 sub-topics. Clinical Dentistry and Operative Procedures is the largest single subject with 20 topics across 4 chapters.

Roughly 120 hours for one full pass. That estimate allows about 45 minutes per topic plus 12 minutes per sub-topic, so it is first-pass coverage — revision, past papers and mock tests sit on top of it. At 3 hours a day that is about 6 weeks.

Yes — 426 question-and-answer flashcards across 8 decks, one per subject, written against this syllabus. A sample of every deck is readable on this site for free, and the complete decks are in the Examius app.

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