Department of Community Dentistry

Introduction

Community Dentistry is a branch of Dentistry which deals with preventing disease, prolonging life & promoting physical & mental efficiency through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment, the control of communicable infections, the education of individual in personal hygiene, the organization of medical & nursing services for the early diagnosis & preventive treatment of disease and the devlopment of the social machinery to ensure everyone a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of the health .

Mission and vision

The dental public Health field has been expanding in scope & complexity with more emphasis being placed on the total dental care delivery systém & its impact on Oral Health Status .

Goals

• The goal of the Community dentistry is to provide basic & advanced Health promotion to an individual and group of people.
• Prevention of dental diseases & awareness of Oral hygiene in rural population.
• To provide Basic treatment in rural areas through mobile dental clinic .
• The main goal of the Community Dentistry is to achieve good oral hygiene & health awareness in public through organized community efforts.

Undergraduate Education

This program involves weekly lectures seminars , demonstration of recording indices like :-DMFT / DMFS, OHI – S, Periodontal index, Gingival index, Deans fluorosis index .

• Students prepare oral health education material posters, chart & models on different topics so that it will help to educate patients in simple way .
• Field work like school dental check -up , diagnostic Camps in rural areas to asses the oral health status of village people emergency treatment & health education including possible preventive care.
• Students show different brushing techniques to the patients on models .They show plaque control measures to the patient by using various disclosing agents &oral rinse programme.
• Diet counselling is done to the public to reduce caries.
• Students give the oral hygiene instructions also administer topical fluoride therapy and pit and fissure selants.
• Eduacate patient concerning the etiology and prevention of oral disease and encourage them to assure responsibility for oral health.