Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry

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.