Department Of Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry

INTRODUCTION

Children are nature’s most beautiful creation. The child cannot be considered as just a miniature of adult but a dynamic organism undergoing constant mental, physical and emotional changes.

Pedodontics is a branch of dentistry that includes training of child to accept dentistry, restoring and maintaining primary, mixed, permanent dentition providing both primary and comprehensive, preventive and therapeutic oral health care for infants and children through adolescence, including those with special health care needs.

DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW:

The Department of  Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry is  well equipped with 20 dental chair units, special care room for treatment of children requiring special care needs, a complete laboratory set up, X-ray unit with RVG, and recreational area for children.

DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES

1. Lectures, seminar, clinical training and patient management classes are conducted for 3^rd and 4^th year BDS students.
2. Preventive and therapeutic treatment for children and adolescence like pit and fissure sealants, topical fluoride application, restorations, pulp therapies, extractions, minor orthodontic treatments and oral hygiene maintenance .
3. Full mouth rehabilitation under general anesthesia for uncooperative children and special children.
4. School dental health programmes including screening of oral cavity of school children, health talks to provide oral health awareness, and rendering preventive and restorative treatments.

Faculty

Prof.Dr. K. Reshma Pai	Professor and HOD
Dr. Evette Natasha Amanna	Senior lecturer
Dr. Lakshmi Pallavi K	Senior lecturer
Dr. Sanjana Sunny	Tutor
Dr. Vibha Vijay Shetty	Tutor