Pediatric & Preventive Dentistry

Undergraduates are trained to develop necessary clinical skills for providing basic dental care to children with emphasis on preventive dentistry. We teach comprehensive training in diet counselling, case history recording, diagnosis and treatment plan at the UG level. They have pre-clinical commitment after fulfilling that they are trained to do minor restorative and surgical procedures like tooth extraction. They are also exposed to give clinical presentations and seminars.

We have 3-years full term comprehensive PG program started in 2016 with the strength of 5 students in one batch. The students join clinic after 6 months of pre-clinical work. In these 3 years candidates receive extensive clinical and theoretical education together with hands on experience in teaching, learning and research. The curriculum includes behavior management, case history recording, diagnosis and treatment plan, diet counselling, preventive, restorative, esthetic, pulp therapy, interceptive and preventive orthodontics, prosthetic rehabilitations, dental trauma, management of child abuse and neglect and children with special health care needs who may require hospital dentistry. It also includes seminars and journal clubs which helps to improve students’ presentation skill. Each postgraduate student is guided to do various publications as a part of academics. The students are evaluated progressively at all levels of their learning. They are trained with all advance materials and instruments. The three years PG program is in accordance with the guideline set by DCI.