BDS department
Department of Public Health Dentistry
What we teach and treat
Taking oral health care to the community.
The department promotes oral health and improves quality of life for individuals and communities through preventive, promotive and community-based dental care, combining teaching, clinical services, research and outreach. It runs regular community screening and treatment camps, school oral health programmes, awareness drives, and tobacco cessation and oral cancer screening programmes, and trains BDS students through community-based field work, health education, epidemiological surveys and research. To reach people with limited access to dental care, it operates two satellite centres in underserved areas — in Gharoli village and at DLF, Bhopura village — offering affordable check-ups, preventive care and treatment for common dental problems, with referral to the college hospital when needed.
Promoting oral health, preventing disease, transforming communities.
Equipment & facilities
- Fully equipped public health dentistry clinics
- Fully equipped mobile dental van
- Two satellite dental centres, in Gharoli and Bhopura villages
- Portable dental units for outreach programmes
- Ultrasonic scalers and preventive dentistry equipment
- Fluoride application and pit-and-fissure sealant equipment
- Tobacco cessation clinic with a Smokerlyzer (carbon monoxide monitor)
- Facilities for oral cancer screening and tobacco-use assessment
- Audio-visual equipment, models and educational materials for health education
- Facilities for epidemiological surveys and community-based research
- Patient education and counselling area
Treatments for patients
- Oral health check-ups and diagnosis
- Scaling (teeth cleaning)
- Fluoride application and pit & fissure sealants
- Basic fillings
- Preventive, dietary and oral hygiene counselling
- Treatment or referral of common dental problems
- School dental health programmes
- Community dental screening and treatment camps
- Care at the village satellite centres and in the mobile dental van
- Oral health programmes for underserved communities
- Tobacco cessation counselling and support
- Oral cancer screening and referral of suspicious lesions
Infrastructure
Inside the department
The clinics, laboratories and teaching rooms where our students learn and patients are treated. Tap any photo to see it full size.
People
Faculty
Head of department
- Dr. Geetika AroraProfessor & Head
Faculty members
- Dr. Meetika PahujaProfessor
Visit the department
Meet the admission desk, walk through the dental hospital and talk to faculty. 3 km from Vaishali Metro Station.