POSTGRADUATE PROGRAM

At the postgraduate level, MDS program is offered to make the candidate proficient in routine cytological and histopathological procedures. The Post Graduate program comprises training of three years of Oral Pathology and Microbiology and has extended to even include Forensic Odontology in its curriculum.Knowledge about recent sophisticated instrumentation and advances in our specialty are also imparted.
The department’s curriculum includes assessment of patients’ overall health status and its impact on oral health care, identifying problems affecting the teeth and supporting structures, understanding and identifying oral mucosal and salivary gland disorders, orofacial neurological and chronic pain disorders and oral manifestations of systemic diseases.
The department also possesses additional infrastructure like discrete dental chairs, seminar room for the postgraduates, pathology museum displaying numerous dental anatomy and oral pathology specimens, departmental library having more than 50 books including the latest editions, research microscopes with polarizing, phase contrast, photomicrographic and dual head attachments required for post graduate training and research purposes. Interactive seminars and journal clubs are held every week in the seminar room equipped with LCD projector.
We are equipped with research microscope with image analysis software that facilitates researchers. We also have a two-headed microscope and a stereo microscope to enhance the postgraduate learning. We also play a crucial role in assisting the research projects and thesis by the postgraduate students of the Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics and Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry.
A multidisciplinary approach is applied with the department of Oral diagnosis, medicine & radiology and Oral and Maxillofacial surgery for the ultimate betterment of the patient.