Vision
- To be a Centre for excellence in academics, research and patient care.
- To make a lasting impact on children and their families to positively improve their oral health and to be more proactive in prevention of dental diseases in the pediatric community.
Mission
- Provide excellence in education, training and research for budding young dentist
- Establishing a tender, loving and child focused dental care in accordance with international guidelines with appropriate behaviour modification techniques tailored to individual child
- Providing anticipatory guidance and education to parents in a compassionate manner
Objectives
- To promote oral health care in children and adolescents through preventive measures, treatment and education.
- To develop a positive attitude and behaviour towards oral health from an early age by implementing the principles of preventive dentistry from birth itself.
- To allay fear and anxiety in children by providing comfort through different behaviour management techniques like modelling, tell show do , conscious sedation etc and also by relieving pain by treating the infection and restoring function.
- To provide parental guidance and counselling when required.
- To provide occlusal guidance and early treatment of developing malocclusion.
- Managing children with special needs and medically compromised patients with the help of general anaesthesia and by modifying the treatment accordingly, taking the required consent.
Message from the Head of Department
Welcome to the Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry. We started our journey in the year 2007.Our goal is to provide our patients with best possible treatment and care and also we strive to ensure that our students excel not only in academics but also in leadership qualities.
We have a good team of faculty as well as great support from our institution. We conduct school health camps and talks to increase awareness among parents and teachers as well as to inculcate social responsibilities in our students.
Last but not the least, it gives us immense pleasure and humility to treat the tiny tots and quality service is our motto.
Members of the Faculty
Facilities
Our department encompasses a variety of disciplines, techniques, procedures and skills that logically share a common basis with other specialties but are modified, transformed or adapted to the special health care needs.
Hence our department includes the essence of all branches of dentistry like diagnosis, oral surgery, rehabilitation, endodontics, orthodontics and preventive dentistry.
We abide by the Dental Home Concept. Dental Home according to American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) is the ongoing relationship between the dentist and the patient, inclusive of all aspects of oral health care delivered in a comprehensive, continuously accessible, coordinated, and family centered way. Establishment of a dental home begins no later than 12 months of age and includes referral to dental specialists when appropriate.
Department Facilities
- Front desk
- Waiting area
- Play area
- Feeding room
- Dental operatory with 20 dental chairs
- Consulting area
- HOD room
- Assistants area
- Sterilization room
- Dry and wet labs
- Isolation room
- Space for undergraduate students and interns
- Xray room/RVG
- Intraoral camera
- Restroom/washroom
- Provision for drinking water
- Refrigerator
- Child friendly department with various dental awareness posters
- Detailed case history recording
- Non-pharmacological behaviour management
- Preventive treatment/measures
- Diet counseling
- Pit and fissure sealants
- Plaque control in children
- Fluoride/SDF application
- Preventive orthodontics
- Habit breaking counselling and appliance
- Preventive and interceptive orthodontics
- Myofunctional appliance
- Orthopedic appliances
- Pediatric space management
- Space maintainers and regainers
- Serial extractions
- Caries risk assessment
- ART
- Management of ECC /Rampant caries/Dental caries
- Restorations
- Pulp testing
- Pulp therapy for vital and non-vital, primary and permanent teeth
- Pulpotomy, pulpectomy and RCT
- Apexogenesis and Apexification
- Rotary Endodontics
- Crown placement
- Anterior esthetic and Stainless Steel crowns
- Management of traumatic injuries to primary and permanent teeth.
- Pediatric minor oral surgeries.
- Exodontia.
- Management of special children.
- All emergency treatments.
- Provision for treatments under General Anaesthesia.
- Medications are given following child dosage formula.
- Conduction of workshops in schools.
- Free treatment for camp based school children.
- All treatments are provided in clean and hygienic environment with sterilized instruments.
- Under the current pandemic situations all treatments are provided following strict covid protocols.
Initiatives
As initiative is basically the act of taking the first step, we in our Department have taken the following initiatives to improve our performance, quality of work, connectivity and outcome:
- Regular workshops for preventive measures in schools.
- Guiding students, teachers as well as parents about the importance of maintaining good oral hygiene and the steps involved.
- Conduction of CDE programs to share the new advancements and techniques in pediatric dentistry with fresh graduates as well as established fellow dental practitioners to upgrade and update the knowledge.
- Introduced conscious sedation unit for -
- Patients with dental phobia and anxiety
- Patients undergoing traumatic and long dental procedures
- Medical conditions aggravated by stress such as angina, asthma and epilepsy.
- Mentally challenged patients
- Patients with ineffective local Anesthesia due to any reason.
- Plans to incorporate more number of procedures under general anesthesia than the current scenario by collaborating with medical college staff and by ordering all the required equipment as soon as possible.
