Post-registration · NEBDN
NEBDN post-registration certificates in dental nursing
Dental Radiography, Oral Health Education, Sedation, Orthodontic, Special Care and Implant Nursing, in one app.
The 6 certificates
Six separate qualifications sharing one app. Each has its own question pool, its own topics and its own timed mock test — pick the one you are enrolled on.
Dental Radiography
Physics and dose, IR(ME)R duties, projection technique, image faults and radiographic anatomy.
Oral Health Education
Caries and periodontal prevention, diet, fluoride, and the behaviour change techniques that make advice stick.
Dental Sedation Nursing
Sedation drugs, patient assessment and consent, monitoring and equipment, and recovery and discharge.
Orthodontic Dental Nursing
Occlusal classification and development, removable, fixed and functional appliances, materials and retention.
Special Care Dental Nursing
Consent and capacity law, disability and reasonable adjustments, conditions and their oral impact, access and domiciliary care.
Dental Implant Nursing
Bone biology and osseointegration, assessment and planning, chairside surgical support, and professional practice.
All 26 topics
Every topic across all 6 certificates, in app order.
Physics and Dose
X-ray production, dose quantities and limits, biological effects, justification and optimisation.
IR(ME)R and Legal Duties
Duty holders and their functions, justification and authorisation, employer’s procedures and records.
Projection and Technique
Intra-oral technique and holders, panoramic preparation, receptors, shielding, and dental CBCT.
Faults and Quality Assurance
Image quality rating, positioning, exposure and processing faults, QA testing and reject analysis.
Radiographic Anatomy
Maxillary and mandibular landmarks, panoramic shadows, and the developing dentition on film.
Caries and Prevention
The caries process, risk assessment and recall, preventive advice by age band, early childhood caries.
Periodontal Health and BPE
BPE codes and the actions they trigger, the disease process, plaque and calculus control, interdental cleaning.
Diet and Nutrition
Free sugars and their sources, frequency and the Stephan curve, dietary acid and erosion, advice by age.
Fluoride and Varnish
Toothpaste concentrations and amounts, varnish, mouthrinse, fluorosis, and water and milk fluoridation.
Communication and Behaviour Change
The COM-B model, motivational approaches and goal setting, brief interventions, oral cancer referral.
Sedation Pharmacology
Intravenous midazolam, inhalation sedation with nitrous oxide and oxygen, oral and transmucosal routes.
Assessment and Selection
ASA classification, medical history and red flags, anxiety assessment, consent, capacity and instructions.
Monitoring and Equipment
Pulse oximetry, clinical observation, blood pressure, the inhalation machine, airway and oxygen equipment.
Recovery and Discharge
Recovery management and positioning, complications, the escort, discharge criteria and who authorises it.
Growth and Classification
Malocclusion and occlusal classification, eruption and the developing dentition, indices, cephalometrics.
Removable and Fixed Appliances
Removable and fixed components, functional appliances, headgear, auxiliaries, and chairside problems.
Materials and Retention
Impressions and study models, bonding and cementation, archwire properties, debonding hazards, retainers.
Consent, Capacity and the Law
The five statutory principles, assessing capacity, who may consent, best interests, safeguarding and equality law.
Disability and Inclusive Practice
Impairment versus disability, the models of disability, barriers and the adjustments that remove them, integrated care.
Conditions and Oral Impact
Conditions from childhood and adult life, medically compromising conditions, medicines, mental health and lesion recognition.
Communication and Access
Augmentative communication, behavioural techniques, moving and handling, referral and transport, domiciliary care.
Oral Health, Pain and Anxiety
Oral hygiene aids adapted to impairment, denture care, dry mouth and mucositis, anxiety and phobia, sedation and GA.
Anatomy and Osseointegration
Jaw anatomy and the structures that constrain placement, bone quality, osseointegration, and peri-implant disease.
Assessment and Planning
The planning pathway, medical history, imaging and records, timing and loading protocols, and the implant team.
Chairside and Instruments
Implant components, instruments and decontamination, surgical support, grafts and membranes, torque and the restorative visit.
Health, Safety and Practice
Clinical governance and risk, infection control, records and information governance, evidence and audit, scope of practice.
Why some topics say “App only”
This site publishes exactly what the free version of the app unlocks: 72 questions across 6 of 26 topics. The other 20 are part of the paid app. Their study guides are free to read here in full; it is the question pools that are in the app.
Revise anywhere, with the whole Post-Reg Mastery bank
This site publishes the app's free sample — 72 of 1160 questions, across 6 of 26 topics. Dental Post-Reg Mastery carries the full bank offline across all 6 certificates, so you can revise on the bus, between patients, or the night before.
- All 1160 questions
- Every question across all 6 certificates, including the 20 topics this site cannot unlock.
- 75-question mock test
- Timed at 90 minutes, drawn from one certificate at a time.
- An explanation every time
- Every answer explains itself and cites where it comes from, right or wrong.
- Progress you can see
- History and per-topic results show which certificates still need the work.
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