Limited registration

A dental practitioner who is not qualified for general registration may be eligible to apply for limited registration.

The following documents provide information about limited registration for overseas qualified dental practitioners:

• Limited Registration for Postgraduate Training or Supervised Practice Registration Standard (282 KB, PDF)
• Limited Registration for Teaching or Research (Section 69) Registration Standard (276 KB, PDF)
• Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency - Supervised practice framework 

Pathways for limited registration for teaching or research

Overseas qualified practitioners wishing to fill a teaching or research position can apply for this type of limited registration.

• Application for limited registration for teaching or research as a dental practitioner - ALTR-20 (1.72 MB, PDF)

Pathways for limited registration for postgraduate training or supervised practice

Supervised practice – practising only under supervision and either:

• enrolment in one or more of the following for the purpose of gaining registration in Australia:
  • any examination required by the Board for registration under section 53(c) of the National Law.
• appropriately qualified, overseas-trained dental practitioners who do not qualify for general registration and who wish to apply for limited registration to undertake postgraduate training under section 66 of the National Law. Apply using the Application for limited registration for postgraduate training form (1.2 MB, PDF).
  
  More information about Approved Programs of Study can be found under the Accreditation section.
  
  Please note that a previous limited registration pathway, the Public Sector Dental Workforce Scheme (PSDWS), has closed. The PSDWS pathway closed 1 January 2020, new applications are not accepted under this pathway. Further details can be found in the Board's 30 November 2018 Communique. Although the Limited registration for postgraduate training or supervised practice (section 66) registration standard provides detail regarding an ‘employment relationship with an appropriate public sector program’ there are no current programs within Australia.
• Postgraduate training – enrolment in an approved postgraduate program of study