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Overview of Department:

The Department of Public Health Dentistry mainly focuses on providing education and creating awareness about oral health to the common public. It helps in training the undergraduate students to work with and amongst the people. The department strives to help the students understand the public relations as well as about the ethical practices that are to be followed in the near future. Our aim is to provide good oral health treatment services to a large population mainly the rural areas.

Departmental Facilities:

Our Department tries to reach the maximum population; thus a few sub-centers are present in the rural areas. The sub-center of Waghbil and Bhadole provides initial treatment facilities to the patients. We provide extensive oral care to the surrounding areas. The mobile dental van is equipped to serve the rural populations with common oral health problems and also creates awareness amongst the people. The NSS i.e. the National Service Scheme cell of our department focuses on organizing cleanliness drives in the rural areas, also helps in creating awareness about the oral health. Our Department provides complete comprehensive treatments to the patient thus helping in maintaining wellbeing of their oral health. We also have a Tobacco Cessation Centre which mainly focuses on oral health and counseling the addicted people to stop the habit.

Departmental Activities:

The Department conducts various oral health camps within the rural population of the district. Various oral hygiene awareness
camps, field visits, industrial visits, dental check-up camps are conducted. To boost up the knowledge of the undergraduate students CDE programs as well as Value Added Courses are conducted by the department. We actively organize programs to celebrate various important days as in to create awareness among the students as well as the public. Various oral cancer screening procedures which help in early detection of oral cancer are also done by the department.

Departmental Achievements:

Our Department has achieved various awards throughout these years. The department has been awarded the first place in Swachh Bharat Summer Internship Program- 2018 at MUHS as well as State level, whereas stunningly have bagged the second place in Swachh Bharat Summer Internship Program at the National level.

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