Undergraduate Section & Post Graduate Section

POSTGRADUATES:  8 postgraduate students per year

• The aim of the programme is to provide advanced education in the subject of conservative dentistry and endodontics to  qualified graduate dentists who are interested in a career of specialized practice, teaching and research.
• To train the postgraduate students with higher standards of  clinical dentistry and excel in the subject with evidence based dentistry
• Students are assessed through regular seminars, journal club and case presentations and clinical chair side viva
• The treatment rendered by the post graduates include complex amalgam and composite restorations (Pin and bonded), bleaching of vital and nonvital teeth, veneering, cast restorations (Inlays, Onlays, Crown), Root canal treatments, hemisection, apicectomy, splinting, esthetic rehabilitations and microsurgeries

INFRASTRUCTURE

Department rooms area in sq.ft
Postgraduate clinic - 3950
Under graduate clinic - 4127
Patient waiting lobby - 600
Sterilization room - 426
Lab room - 500
Store room - 320
X-ray room - 140
Seminar room - 1050
Preclinical room - 4464
HOD room - 315
Professor room - 250
Reader room - 250
Senior.Lecturer room - 310
Postgraduate room - 590
Preclinical staff room – 105

VISION:
To be a humane  health care service provider of the highest standard focusing on providing accessible, safe, effective & efficient dental service to the community.

MISSION:

• To use technology for the benefit of patients
• Establish & practice “Quality Management” policies in all processes, systems, functions & activities of dental care
• To render effective charitable services to the  community

Goals and Objectives:

• To attain excellence in healthcare delivery.
• To develop quality professionals with credibility, integrity and ethical conscience.
• To ensure high standards in teaching and learning with more emphasis on problem based learning & evidence based dentistry.
• To blend and apply clinical research and acumen.
• To reach out to the community with a service attitude.

FACULTY PROFILE
The department of Conservative and Endodontics has dedicated faculty members who are dedicated in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as providing dental treatment to the society in higher standards.

FACULTY COMPOSITION:   

TEACHING FACULTY:

Name	Sex	Designation	Qualification
Dr. Srirekha.A	F	Professor	MDS
Dr. Lekha.S	F	Professor	MDS
Dr. Jaykumar	M	Professor	MDS
Dr. Srinivas P	M	Reader	MDS
Dr. Champa Ravi	F	Reader	MDS
Dr Vijay	M	Reader	MDS
Dr Ashwija	M	Reader	MDS
Dr. Savitha B	F	Reader	MDS
Dr.Jyothi.R	F	Reader	BDS
Dr Pushpalatha	F	Senior Lecturer	MDS
Dr. Archana	F	Senior Lecturer	MDS
Dr. Sainath	M	Senior Lecturer	MDS
Dr. Ronald	M	Senior Lecturer	MDS
Dr. Sowmya	F	Senior Lecturer	MDS
Dr. Abha	F	Senior Lecturer	MDS
Dr Nasir Ahmed	M	Senior Lecturer	MDS
Dr Swetha	F	Senior Lecturer	MDS
Dr Divya V	F	Senior Lecturer	MDS
Dr Deepthi	F	Senior Lecturer	MDS

Our staff  Dr Archana  - X rank in MDS conservative Dentistry conducted by RGUHS in year May 2012

PROGRAMMES OFFERED:

COLLABORATIONS AND MOU

• Credora life sciences
• BMS college of engineering
• Skanda Life care sciences
• Oxford medical college
• Oxford college of life sciences
• 3M
• Narayana Hrudayalaya

Waste disposal

• The bio-medical waste generated is segregated based on the following categories: Anatomical waste, sharps, solid waste and chemical waste. These are disposed in their respective color coded containers/bags.
•  These are collected on regular basis and disposed by the local bio medical waste management, according   to the regulations of pollution control board of Karnataka state.

UNDERGRADUATE SECTION

ANNUAL CURRICULUM

• UNDERGRADUATES:  100 STUDENTS PER YEAR

The undergraduate curriculum involves teaching of 3 subjects:
1) Dental materials (restorative aspect)
2) Conservative Dentistry: Involves preclinical and clinical exercises
3) Endodontics

• II year BDS

• Dental materials –deals with chemistry, physical properties, manipulation and recent development of various restorative materials.
• Preclinical operative Dentistry

• III year BDS
• One theory class per week

• Clinical postings they learn
•  Class I cavity preparations followed by restoration of the same with amalgam
•  Deep caries excavation followed by Indirect pulp capping
•  Class II cavity preparations followed by amalgam restoration
• GIC Class V restorations
• IV year BDS
• 2 theory classes per week
• Clinical postings they learn
• Class II cavity preparations followed by restoring the same with amalgam
• Anterior R.C.T
• Composites and GIC restorations
• INTERNSHIP:
• Management of  O.P.D.
• Class I  ,Class II , Class III,  IV, V restorations with amalgam, GIC & composites as indicated
• Management of deep carious lesions & temporary restorations
• Root canal treatments 

ASSESSMENT PROGRAMME-

• Periodic viva and exams are conducted

Programs for UG students
Odontoplexus nexgen an intercollegiate interns programme was conducted on 22nd of march by the members of UG course committee first of such event at our college. The intention is to conduct the event every other year.  Ten colleges in and around Bangalore   participated. 41 interns from other colleges and 68 interns from our college registered for the event.  The guest lecture by Dr Srivats Bardawaj Pedodontist was on future scope for dentistry. 15 delegates participated for paper presentation and 10 for poster presentation. Dr Rabindra S Nayak orthodontist from GDC and Dr Kenneth from our college were the quiz masters. The programme was sponsored by Viha online portal and gifts sponsored by 3M and Colgate.

Under-Graduate Clinic	Preclinical lab