Vision
To become a highly efficient educational centre providing a comprehensive curriculum to ensure theoretical, practical and ethical awareness in students and thus moulding them into competent proficient clinicians. Orthodontic department envisions to provide basic treatment modalities to advanced procedures for creating beautiful smiles.
Mission
*Committed to provide each patient with the highest quality of orthodontic care thus creating healthy beautiful smiles.
*Mentor each student to provide quality orthodontics to a diverse community of patients and to guide them to excel in clinical and evidence-based research.
*Educate the future clinicians about their role in the society as healthcare workers and instill a habit of delivering quality dental care.
Objectives
Undergraduate program in Orthodontics is designed to enable the qualifying Dental Surgeon to diagnose, analyses and treat common Orthodontic problems by preventive, interceptive and corrective Orthodontic procedures.
- To provide quality Orthodontic care in an ethical manner and with interdisciplinary team approach.
- To lay foundation of basic knowledge and assimilate associated Orthodontics skills to understanding of the etiology, path of physiology and subsequently accurate diagnosis and treatment plan of various Orthodontic problems.
- To obtain proper clinical history, methodical examination of the patient.
- Deliver treatment care irrespective of the social status.
Members of the Faculty
![Faculty Members of Department of Orthodontics](/sites/default/files/2024-01/DSC03913%20ortho.jpg)
Facilities
Department
- Dental chair and units- 18
- Unit mount scaler – 1
- Ultrasonic cleanser – 2
- Ssmicromotor – 4
- Xray viewers – 3
- Ceph tracing device – 2
- Seminar room with projector – 1
- Dept Library – 1
- Preclinical lab – 1
- Dental store room – 1
Laborotaries
- Autoclave – 3
- Plaster dispenser – 2
- Vibrator – 2
- Model trimmer – 2
- Lathe – 4
- Welders – 4
- Blow torch – 2
- Base former – 4 pair
- Typodont – 4
- Set of pliers – 5
- Welder with soldering attachment – 1
- Hydrosolder – 1
- Typhodont articulator
Range of Treatments
- Removable Orthodontic Appliances
- Fixed Orthodontic Appliances (including esthetic brackets, self-ligating brackets, treatments using TAD)
- Orthopedic Appliances
- Myofunctional Appliances
- Clear Aligners
- Lingual Orthodontics
- Surgical Orthodontic Treatment