An Overview

The department of Public Health Dentistry has been committed to promoting dental care through excellence in teaching the art of prevention. The department has been actively involved in providing comprehensive treatment, education, awareness, counselling and means regarding oral health care to the oppressed and inaccessible sections of the society alongside the masses with due concern to special care groups like school children and specially abled individual.

It has been an active participant in Colgate’s Bright Smiles Bright Future program targeting the school children and has been successful in providing preventive, therapeutic and rehabilitative care to the needy free of cost. We also have a well-equipped, fully functional and state of the art mobile dental unit specially designed to target remote areas. Provision has been made for referral of the patients requiring advanced care to the institution at subsidized rates.

As far as the postgraduate course is concerned, the department has immensely promoted the conduct of numerous research studies including experimental and epidemiological studies. The faculty has been constantly encouraging the post graduates for publication of the research projects in various national and international journals.