Department of Public Health Dentistry

Sri Aurobindo College of Dentistry, Sri Aurobindo University

Public Health Dentistry is a dental specialty that focuses on preventing and controlling oral diseases and promoting oral health through organized community effort. It is a form of dental practice that serves a community rather than an individual as the patient.

Sri Aurobindo University offers undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Public Health Dentistry. The department has expertise and experienced faculty engaged in training and research in the field of dental public health. The comprehensive dental care unit of department caters to the basic dental treatment needs of patients referred from outreach and community programs.

The undergraduate and postgraduate programs of the department aims to develop proficiency among students to explore oral health status, understand health needs, community diagnosis, public health policy and to develop community based interventions for the prevention of oral diseases.

The dental outreach program provides students to reach the unreached communities and expand their professional competencies to gain experience in working at variety of clinical and community settings.

The department provides an excellent opportunity for the community to benefit and also making the students proficient in rendering dental care through mobile dental van, portable dental equipment’s, peripheral centers, adopted schools, adopted villages, linkages with health centers at rural areas, prisons and disabled population.

The associated departmental establishment like Tobacco Cessation center, Dental Museum and Counseling room equipped with audiovisual aids and patient health education materials focus on the prevention, motivation and promotion of skills required towards healthy oral health practices.