DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY & PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY DOW INTERNATIONAL DENTAL COLLEGE


Facilities


The procedures for which the undergraduate students are trained for include: periodic dental examination and screenings, imparting oral health education and behavior change interventions, all preventive procedures such as scaling and root planing, tooth polishing, fluoride applications, pit and fissure sealants; primary clinical procedures such as atraumatic restorative treatment using hand instrumentations in high-risk caries children, and other non-invasive dental procedures that do not require anesthesia, needles and sharp instrumentations both in the dental clinics as well as in the community based field after they have gained theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in the Skill Lab.

The Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry has all the necessary facilities for academics and coordinated patient care such as a well-equipped air-conditioned separate Skill Laboratory, Museum, Seminar Hall, and Small-Group Discussion/ Tutorial Rooms for the BDS Students in 3rd Professional Year. In addition, the College provides other logistic and transportation support to the students when they visit different extra-mural communities, schools and institutes for community-based research, preventive and promotion programs.


There are enough mobile dental units to be able to carry our primary dental procedures in the communities where is shortage of electrical supply and other disadvantaged communities.