The Overseas Registration Exam, Part I, is meant to assess an overseas candidate's clinical knowledge in relation to contemporary, UK dental clinical practice. There are two main sections of the Part 1 exam:

• Paper A covers clinically applied dental science and clinically applied human disease.
• Paper B is more about the law and ethics / health and safety of dental practice in the UK.

ORE Exam Part 1A 

Part 1A of the ORE exam focuses on the following areas:

• Oral Biology and Biomedical Sciences - Under this section, candidates take a look at the anatomy, biochemistry and physiology that are relevant to dentistry. This section also takes a look at Dental anatomy, craniofacial and oral physiology.
  
• Human diseases - Focuses on Medicine and medical disorders related to dental treatment. It also includes Rapeutic and dental treatment. Other areas include Disease processes like infection, genetic disorders, inflammation and degeneration. The focus on human diseases also takes a look at drugs used in dental practice and their effects, principles of disinfection, sterilization and antisepsis. 
  
• Ethics, Law and Professionalism - Deals with the knowledge of the ethical and legal obligations that come with dental practice, care, consent and confidentiality. Through this section, examiners have a chance to appreciate duties permitted for DCPs, knowledge of the regulatory mandate of the General Dental Council and the knowledge of lifelong learning and development in the line of duty.
  
• Introduction to concepts of clinical dentistry - This topic deals with getting a detailed dental history of the patient especially the pain history and scenarios, the medical history, and the efficient use of laboratory and imaging facilities. By the end of the topic, candidates are supposed to be able to examine and clinically treat a patient, arrange appropriate referrals, maintain aseptic techniques especially when doing surgeries, get informed consent from patients when required, be a team player and be able to understand patients' different social and ethnic backgrounds.
  
• Restorative dentistry - Looks into non-operative care for such cases like dental caries, tooth wear, and periodontal diseases. The exam seeks to examine the ability to conduct a periodontal examination, do charts, diagnosis, treatment plan, ability to do restorative dentistry procedures like tooth colour restoration, post crowns, posterior and anterior crowns, partial and complete dentures. Lastly, it seeks to determine the ability to prescribe periodontal surgery.
  
• Paediatric dentistry
  
• Orthodontics
  
• Dental public health
  
• Oral pathology and microbiology 
  
• Science of Dental biomaterials - This is a topic that deals with dental materials; the science of dental materials, strengths and weaknesses of dental materials, and biomaterial safety.
  
• Oral surgery - focuses on tooth and root extraction, doing minor soft-tissue surgeries, knowledge and management of acute infection, assessing and managing maxillofacial trauma, and oral cancer, tumour diagnosis and management.
  
• Oral medicine - This topic explores oral medicine drugs, their interactions and side effects, investigations and the appropriate interpretations for the same, pathogenesis of oral medical disorders and their medical treatment.
  
• Dental imaging and Radiology - Explores the ability to take dental images and process the film views, ability to interpret and write radiographic reports, and knowledge of the regulations and hazards related to radiation.