Community and Preventive Dentistry Department incorporates all facets of promoting health, prolonging life and preventing oral diseases in the population and their up-to-date knowledge in the students. It provides the future dentists with the skillsets necessary to care for a community as well as individuals within the community. Through our teaching program, research platform, and community service we continue to meet this challenge.
Objectives of the Department:
The purpose of the teaching program is to give students the concepts of Oral Epidemiology, Oral Health Promotion, health economics, and Human behavior in the society as well as in the clinic, and determinants of Oral health and disease.
For Students:
The study of Oral Health care systems, Planning and Managing Oral Health programs and surveys and Bio-Statistics are introduced at the appropriate stages. Special emphasis is placed on trends of Oral Health diseases and their prevention. All lectures delivered are substantiated by demonstrations as well as up-to-date and current advancements in the subject.
Community Dentistry Museum is being developed for enabling students to gain applied knowledge and broaden overall understanding of the subject.
Typodonts are used at the outset to develop concepts and as they advance Phantom-heads are substituted as patient simulation for understanding and practice of different clinical examinations imparted in the course. This is carried out in the fully equipped Skills laboratory.
Annual Scientific Research poster competition and exam takes place in the second quarter of the academic year.
Annual Oral Health Day/week in which patients are educated and are given free toothbrushes and toothpaste to improve their health. They are then followed over time and the results are published bi-annually.
