BACKGROUND: More than 60 years after the enactment of the first Licensing Regulations for Dentists (ZÄPrO), a new Licensing Regulations for Dentists, the ZApprO, was implemented in 2020. The aims of this study were to evaluate and compare the “Course in Technical Propaedeutics” (TPK) with the course “Dental Propaedeutics with a Focus on Dental Technology” (ZPDT), which are based on different legal …