Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry

Department Overview

Pediatric Dentistry is an age defined speciality that provides primary, comprehensive, preventive and therapeutic oral health care for infants and children through adolescence including those with special health care needs. As said ‘Children are not miniature adults and they are unique in nature,’ Department of Peadiatric and Preventive Dentistry focuses on individual child and aims at primordial and primary prevention and emphasize more on children with special health care needs.

We specialize in behaviour management strategies including pharmacological and non- pharmacological means in order to completely rehabilitate the child. Theoretical knowledge and clinical skills in managing the infants and children are imparted to the students in this department.To focus on providing compassionate, child-centered, coordinated, interdisciplinary, high-quality oral health care and to develop awareness among child patients, parents, dental professionals, and other healthcare providers.

Why Pedodontics Department is Special ?

Vision

To be globally recognized as a centre for Education, Child dental care, Research and Community services.

Mission

To develop and run a Centre of Excellence in education and to provide high quality dental care to the infants, children, adolescents and those with special health care needs.

Department Facilities

Reception Area
Patient Waiting Area
Counseling Room
UG and PG Clinics
ICT Enabled Seminar room
Department Library
UG and PG Lab
Minor Operatory, IOPA/RVG Room
Isolation Room
Photographic area
Sterilization Room
HOD, Reader and Senior Lecturers room
PG Common Room
Minor Surgery- Conscious Sedation
Research Facility

Department Contact Info

Department of Pedodontics

Malabar Dental College & Research Centre Manoor, Chekanoor Rd, Mudur P.O Edappal, Malappuram, Dt Pin : 679578

+91 7034555521
info@macity.edu.in

Mon – Fri 8:30A.M. – 4:00P.M.

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Department Faculty

Professor and Head of Department

Dr. Subbalekshmi is the Professor and Head of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, as well as the Coordinator of the Faculty Development Unit at Malabar Dental College and Research Institute, Kerala. She holds a BDS and MDS from Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai. Additionally, she has undergone specialized training in professions education at the University of Michigan, and clinical research methodology at Seattle Children’s, University of Washington.

Dr. Subbalekshmi has been a faculty member at renowned institutions such as SRIHER, Pushpagiri Dental College, and NIMS Dental College. She has led faculty development programs and has served as a reviewer and editor for prestigious national and international journals. She has received numerous accolades, including Best Paper for three consecutive years at ISPPD and the Distinguished Women Award from the Indian Society of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry in 2024.

Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry