Public Health Dentistry is the science and craft of forestalling and controlling dental illnesses and advancing dental wellbeing through coordinated local area endeavors.
The target of the undergraduate and post-graduate training is to prepare student in order to guarantee higher capability in both general and special region of intrigue and get ready that person for a vocation in teaching, research and specialty practice. Building up a total comprehension of the curricular prerequisites in the department to make the students capable in logical literature search and drawing in them in evidence based dental work on, empowering them in embracing creative and viable techniques for effective health communication. Another essential target is to offer the students a chance to give comprehensive oral care in a logical, able way.
The program helps the students during the time spent showing up at a right finding through a formal stepwise methodology and to create local area preventive projects and complete treatment plan for individuals in a successive way. The program additionally gives fundamental contributions to the students to build up great dentist patient relationship. The division conveys essential and auxiliary preventive dental administrations to the people and to the local area with outreach programs and act as a channel for sound reference framework to guarantee inability constraint and rehabilitative oral wellbeing administrations to the communities.Â
To equip the students with the necessary skill and requisite attention to detail in documenting and maintaining the clinical patient records in a formal and informed manner
- To encourage students in adopting innovative and effective methods of health communication
- To make the students proficient in scientific literature search and engage in evidence based dental practice
- To allow the students gain insights into the concerned communities in the course of conducting surveys
- To provide the students an opportunity to document the prevalence of oral health problems in a given population and incidence of these problems through follow up
- To instill an empathetic attitude towards patients among the students in the course of delivering necessary care
- To help the students in the process of arriving at a correct diagnosis through a formal stepwise approach
- To stimulate the students identify the need of learning about the patient as a whole
- To provide necessary inputs for the students to establish good dentist patient relationship
- CONDUCTING SURVEYS TO RECORD DETAILED ORAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN AN AREA
- CONDUCTING FREE DENTAL CAMPS
- CONDUCTING RALLY’S TO CREATE AWARENESS AMONG GENERAL POPULATION
- PROVISION OF REFERRAL SERVICES FOR THOSE WHO REQUIRE COMPLEX TREATMENTS
- CREATING AWARENESS ON ORAL HEALTH AND VARIOUS PREVENTIVE MEASURES TO PREVENT ORAL DISEASES
1. ORAL HEALTH EDUCATION
- ORAL HYGIENE INSTRUCTIONS
- EDUCATING THE INDIVIDUALS REGARDING THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN DIET AND ORAL DISEASES
- EDUCATING THE INDIVIDUALS REGARDING THE IMPORTANCE OF NUTRITION
- TOBBACCO AND ITS HARMFUL CONSEQUENCES
2. PREVENTIVE PROCEDURES
- PIT & FISSURE SEALANTS
- FLUORIDE APPLICATIONS
- ATRAUMATIC RESTORATIVE TREATMENT
3. TREATMENT MODALTIES
- ORAL PROPHYLAXIS
- DENTAL RESTORATIONS
- TOOTH EXTRACTIONS
- ROOT CANAL TREATMENT
- FIXED PARTIAL DENTURES