PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY

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.

We are committed to create awareness among the general population about the most common causes of oral diseases and simple self-care practices to prevent them.

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.

• Topical Fluoride Application
• Caries Prevention
• Pit & Fissure Sealant
• Tobacco Cessation
• Diagnostic and Screening Dental Camps
• Field Survey

Public health dentistry is one of the special branch in dentistry, which mainly focuses on Prevention of oral diseases, Promoting oral health and prolonging the health of all oral tissues through organized community efforts.

Our main objective is to educate young professionals to facilitate – reinforcement of learning and acquisition of knowledge, achievement of basic dental skills, development of sound dental attitudes and habits, understanding of professional and ethical principles.

As a faculty in this department along with supportive staff, we are committed to work with excellent team spirit in different aspects of public health to address the broader issues that can affect the oral health and well-being of individuals, families, communities, populations, and societies—now, and for the generations to come.