• Maintain a high standard of dental education, research and services
• Provide the job market with top dentistry graduates
• Enable graduates to develop their capacity to learn and to become independent learners.
• Provide broad based scientifically strong education in dentistry that equips the graduates to enter all areas of the profession and to adapt to changes that may occur during their professional life.
• Produce graduates who are able to communicate and deliver dental care both in community and hospital settings.
• Ensure that students acquire clear understanding of their professional and ethical responsibilities towards their communities and humanity in large.
• Produce competent, confident and highly employable dentists.
• Widening access to higher education by producing highly competent graduates that are capable of carrying out postgraduate studies at local and international Universities.
• Participating in the process of improving and implementing oral health care in UAE in cooperation with public and private sectors.
• Improving health care services provided to patients.
• Cooperating with local and international dental education and research centers in the field of research in order to enhance scientific knowledge in oral medicine and dental health care
• Participating in local and international scientific meetings.

Any person is welcome to apply to the Gulf Medical University, Ajman for the Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD). The GMU provides the highest standards of education to all students irrespective of their economic background. However, applicants should satisfy certain standards to be admitted to the GMU. Acceptance in the Doctor of Dental Medicine program is subjected to students overall credentials and availability of places.

The following are the minimum requirements for admission into the DMD program in GMU:

National General Secondary School Certificates (Science Section)

• The applicant must have secured a minimum of 80% marks as per UAE secondary school education standards or its equivalent as certified by the ministry of education, UAE.

Or
IGCSE, GCSE, GCE

• Minimum of 12 years of schooling; School Leaving Certificate must be provided.
• All applicants must have the following subjects at GCSE level, at grades BBCCC or above (in any order): Biology (or Human Biology), Chemistry, English Language, Mathematics (or additional Mathematics or Statistics), Physics.
• Two As-levels (at grade BC) in Biology and Chemistry.

Or
International Baccalaureate

• Diploma showing that student has successfully passed grade 12 with at least 6 subjects with at least three at higher level (minimum grade of 80 percent). Candidates must offer: three subjects including chemistry or biology and one other science or mathematical subject at higher level, and three subjects at subsidiary level including chemistry or biology, if not offered at the higher level.

Or
American-style High School

• Successfully passing grades (10, 11, and 12) with a minimum of 5 subjects in each grade. Minimum (equivalent to grade B) is required. Only subjects classified as academic are considered in the calculation of the CGPA.
• A minimum score of 500 on the TOEFL. Students who obtain a TOEFL score below 500 may be conditionally admitted provided that they join the Intensive English Program (IEP) at the University. Such students will be officially admitted after they obtain a score of 500 on the TOEFL.
• Passing a personal interview: Appearance for a personal interview before GMU Admissions Committee is a mandatory requirement before the applicant is accepted for the DMD program. In addition to evaluating the academic merit and performance during the interview, the admissions committee will also look into the suitability of the applicants, their attitude and willingness to accept the rigorous discipline required for DMD education before admission into the program.

Applicants are required to get their academic documents and official transcripts / credits / grades / marks endorsed by the Ministry of Education, UAE and submit an equivalency certificate thereof.

• In Private practice
• In Public Health facilities and centers
• As a Specialist in some of the following areas:-
• Endodontics
• Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
• Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology
• Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics
• Pediatric Dentistry
• Periodontics
• Prosthodontics

• Third Party Payment Systems
• Editor of dental magazines/journals
• Administrator of Total Health Care Delivery Systems (i.e. Area Directors, IHS)
• Dental School Dean

• Dental School Professor
• Continuing Education Instructor/Presenter 

• Researcher for Dental Materials/Products
• With emphasis in Head Regions
• With emphasis in Mouth

• The dental identification of humans that are disfigured to such an extent that identification by a family member is neither reliable nor desirable.
• Dental identifications have always played a key role in natural and manmade disaster situations and in particular the mass casualties normally associated with aviation disasters.