BDS & MDS department
Department of Paedodontics & Preventive Dentistry
What we teach and treat
Gentle care for growing smiles.
The department trains BDS and MDS students in the dental care of infants, children, adolescents and patients with special health-care needs, through structured teaching, supervised clinical work, research and continuing dental education. Its care is child-centred, evidence-based and minimally invasive, with a strong emphasis on prevention and painless treatment — from managing early childhood tooth decay and laser dentistry to complete oral rehabilitation under conscious sedation or general anaesthesia. The department offers the MDS in Paedodontics & Preventive Dentistry.
Healthy smiles, happy children, lifelong care.
Prevention first, painless treatment always, and a child-centred approach at every visit.
Equipment & facilities
- Advanced paediatric dental operatory with child-friendly chairs
- Paediatric laser dentistry unit with diode lasers for soft-tissue and preventive procedures
- Conscious sedation facility (nitrous oxide–oxygen)
- Operation theatre for dental treatment under general anaesthesia
- Magnification and micro-dentistry systems
- Digital radiography (RVG) and modern diagnostic equipment
- Pre-clinical phantom head laboratory
- Children's play area with audio-visual distraction
- Snoezelen sensory-friendly room with therapeutic sensory stimulation
- Advanced sterilisation and infection-control facilities
Treatments for patients
- Dental check-ups and diagnosis for infants, children and teenagers
- Preventive care — oral health counselling, fluoride therapy and pit & fissure sealants
- Management of early childhood caries (tooth decay in young children)
- Minimally invasive fillings and laser-assisted dental procedures
- Pulp therapy — pulpotomy and pulpectomy
- Stainless steel and tooth-coloured zirconia crowns for children
- Treatment of dental injuries in children
- Space maintainers and interceptive orthodontic care for children and adolescents
- Management of developmental anomalies of the teeth
- Dental care for children with special health-care needs
- Behaviour management for anxious children
- Treatment under laughing gas (nitrous oxide–oxygen) conscious sedation
- Treatment under general anaesthesia and complete oral rehabilitation
Infrastructure
Inside the department
The department runs separate undergraduate (BDS) and postgraduate (MDS) sections, each with its own clinics, laboratories and teaching rooms. Tap any photo to see it full size.
Undergraduate section (BDS)
Postgraduate section (MDS)
People
Faculty
Heads of department
- Dr. Ritika Ahuja MalhotraProfessor & Head (PG)
- Dr. Pulkit JhinganProfessor & Head (UG)
Faculty members
- Dr. Ashish AnandProfessor
- Dr. Sweta ShabnamReader
- Dr. Pallavi PawarReader
- Dr. Smriti GuptaReader
- Dr. Saumya TanejaReader
- Dr. Shashank SinghLecturer
- Dr. Anubha JainLecturer
- Dr. Suman SharmaLecturer
- Dr. Vritika SinghLecturer
- Dr. Nishma NiharikaLecturer
Research & innovation
2 registered copyrights
Original work by the department's faculty and students, registered with the Copyright Office, Government of India.
The Boo Boo Meter — pain assessment scale for children
LD-20250168262 · 15 July 2025
Grading of muco-gingival injuries associated with juvenile toothbrushing
L-135745/2023 · 8 November 2023
Postgraduate
MDS in Paedodontics & Preventive Dentistry
5 seats a year. A three-year, full-time postgraduate programme through NEET MDS and UP state counselling — one of five MDS specialities at IPDC.
All MDS seats filled for 2026–27
Every speciality is full. Seats can reopen in the later rounds when allotted candidates do not join — register your interest and the admission desk will call you if one does.
Updated 26 October 2026
Visit the department
Meet the admission desk, walk through the dental hospital and talk to faculty. 3 km from Vaishali Metro Station.