Public Health Dentistry (PHD) provides leadership and expertise in population-based dentistry, oral health surveillance, policy development, community-based disease prevention and health promotion, and the maintenance of the dental safety net.
The department is unique among the specialities as it is not primarily a clinical speciality; it is a speciality where the practitioners focus on dental and oral health issues in communities and populations rather than individual patients. The hospital has an excellent infrastructure with a technologically equipped dental van with efficient dentists to meet the needs of the patients.
The department has expertise in a wide range of areas as listed below
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To provide support to students so they may succeed and excel throughout their diagnostic and treatment camps.
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Being the trusted resource for oral health information that will help patients in dental camps and be good stewards of their own oral health.
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Improve dental public health outcomes through a strong collaborative treatment with other dental departments.
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Ensure that dental treatment is met to the patients who are identified at camps sites and are effectively treated in the dental hospital.