Public Health Dentistry

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Public Health Dentistry is the specialty of dentistry that promotes oral health, prevents and control of oral diseases. This specialty today stands at the cross roads of time with a very innovative future ahead and its takes pride in being the only specialty in dentistry which forms the first level of contact with the community and works at a grass root level to address the oral health related problems.

This Specialty focuses on teaching and learning of Public health Competencies through imparting a culture of self-directed learning, Research and Oral Epidemiological methods to study Oral Preventive Strategies and Oral Health Policy.

The ultimate aim of this specialty is to train undergraduate students in key aspects of Oral Health & Oral Disease, their risk factors and relation to systemic disease.

Program Offered

Educare Institute of Dental Sciences offers a Bachelor's Degree program in Dental Surgery. We also offer academic exchange programmes and research facilities. The academic rigour at EIDS is matched by the excellent system of equipping each student to seamlessly navigate into a professional life with the highest standards of knowledge, medical ethics and professional integrity.

BDS Program

Educare Institute of Dental Sciences offers Bachelor's Degree in Dental Surgery

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Service provided

Satellite Centres in Mahdin and Kotakkal
Tobacco Cessation Center Provides counseling services to the needful patients for tobacco related problems as part of the Out-patient clinic.
Periodic activities and educational campaigns are being conducted and preventive and rehabilitative services are provided.
Village Adoptions 1. Puzhakkattirri Panchayath 2. Kodur Panchayath
Special School adopted. BUDS school, Kodur Grama Panchayath & Govt. Polytechnic College, Perinthalmanna
Comprehensive Care Clinic

Vision

To Improve the Oral Health of ‘The Community’ by Organized Community Efforts, thereby Alleviating the Quality of Life.

Mission

To Promote Oral Health of the Population that We Serve.
To Assist the People in Improving Their Own Health.
To Give Evidence Based and Trusted Source Information to the Community.
To Plan and Conduct Research for Improvement of Oral Health.
To Influence Public Policy and Legislation for Better Quality of Life for The Community.
To Exercise and Endorse Evidence Based Dentistry.

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Course Outcome

Students should be able to elicit case history along with Clinical Examination and able to use appropriate diagnostic aids enabling them to arrive at a proper diagnosis. They must also be able to use appropriate and provide comprehensive Oral health care to the patients with strict adherence to the Infection control protocol.

Learning through community outreach programs to enable Community oral health problems using the knowledge of Epidemiology and indices to arrive at Community Diagnosis and communicate the findings to the community.

Students' ability to plan, implement and evaluate appropriate Community-based Oral Health Programs for the Promotion of Oral Health and Prevention of Oral disease at the Community level for various target groups including school children.

The department also helps students to organise outreach programs which help to develop communication and administration skills to coordinate between appropriate manpower and resources for the delivery of Health/ Oral health care.

Students also learn to communicate health problems related to Environmental factors and associated with the community and other target audiences including Occupational hazards associated with the practice of dentistry

They learn ethical and Moral Standards related to patient care and management as well as Epidemiological Research, Community activities and Medico legal issues in the practice of dentistry.

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Faculty name & Designation	Name of the Journal	Category I / II / III	Year of Publication	Points
Dr. Arun kumar S Reader Dept. of Public Health Dentistry	Caribbean Journal of Science and Technology	III	2014	05
	Journal of International Oral Health	I	2015	15
	Journal of Applied Dental and Medical Sciences	III	2017	05
	International Journal of Scientific Research	I	2018	7.5
	Contemporary Clinical Dentistry	III	2018	15
	International Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry	I	2019	7.5

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