Registration application fees

Our registration application fees are for first registration (on the UK’s registers of dental professionals). These fees cover the costs relating to applications and are made up of two parts; a flat rate to cover processing costs, and a variable rate to cover the costs of assessing the type of application.

This variable element results in six bands of fee, depending on the complexity of the assessment. The six bands are detailed below.

Registration as a UK qualified: dentist or dental care professional (DCP)

Dentists: You hold a primary dentistry qualification from a UK provider.
DCPs: You hold a primary DCP qualification from a UK Provider.

Processing fee	Assessment fee	Total
£36.33	£0	£36.33

Registration of DCP additional title(s) (UK qualified)

DCP additional titles: You are on the DCP register, and you have since completed an additional DCP qualification from a UK provider. You wish to add this DCP title to your registration.

Processing fee	Assessment fee	Additional title fee	Total fee
£36.33	£0	£12	£48.33

Registration as a dentist: with a relevant European Diploma, having passed the Overseas Registration Exam (ORE) or with a recognised overseas diploma

Relevant European diploma: You hold a relevant European diploma listed in V.3 of Annex V of Directive 2005/36/EC at 11pm GMT on 31 December 2020.
ORE: You have passed the ORE Part 1 and Part 2.
Recognised overseas diploma: You hold a recognised overseas diploma.

Processing fee	Assessment fee	Total fee
£36.33	£66.50	£102.83

Registration (requiring individual assessment) as a DCP with an overseas qualification

Overseas qualification: You hold a primary qualification in a profession complementary to dentistry, obtained outside the UK.

Processing fee	Assessment fee	Total fee
£36.33	£512.76	£549.09

Registration (requiring individual assessment) of additional DCP title(s) with an overseas qualification

Overseas qualification: You are on the DCP register (or you are in the process of applying for registration under another title - see FAQ below) and you are seeking to add a further DCP title based on a qualification obtained outside the UK.

Processing fee	Assessment fee	Additional title fee	Total fee
£36.33	£340	£12	£388.33

Registration as a temporary dentist

You are a dentist who is not currently eligible for full registration to practise in the UK. You have been offered a supervised post for training, teaching or research purposes only, for a limited time period.

Processing fee	Assessment fee	Total fee
£36.33	£66.50	£102.83

The fees apply to almost all applications for first registration. Applications for restoration and temporary registration renewal will remain exempt from a fee until further notice.

In addition, applications to join a specialist list do not attract an initial application fee as they are held on a list (as opposed to a register) and are already subject to a fee.

FAQs

How are the registration application fees set?

The GDC analyse how much time and resource different types of applications take to process. The fees are made up of two parts; a flat rate to cover processing costs, and a variable rate to cover the costs of assessing the type of application. This variable element results in six bands of fee (see information above), depending on the complexity of the assessment.