Preclinical and clinical education variety for dentistry Main objective of dental education is to help students to develop their clinical skills. The clinical training covering the three-quarters of overall dental curriculum focuses mainly on developing the psychomotor skills required for restorative and prosthetic procedures. Dental students exercise a serial of previously defined professional skills under the supervision in their faculty clinics. Preclinical training using manikins as a simulated patient neccessary for a humanistic education standards is usually limited to restorative procedures. Preclinical education held in laboratories do not usually support students to gain professional and interprofessional experiences related to patient relations, control of enfection and the steps of clinical procedures. In this review study, today's preclinical and clinical training models such as virtual reality, computer-based assesments, self-evaluating, standardized patients, community-based clinical training and case completion model are being discussed to be able to make some suggestions for improving skills of dental students.