Goals & Objectives of MDS Course
Duration of the Course
Method of Training
Attendance, Progress and Conduct
Monitoring Progress of Studies
Dissertation
Scheme of Examination
Definition of Various Specialties
General Objectives of the Course
   
Definition of Various Specialties
 
  • Prosthodontics and Crown & Bridge
    Prosthodontics and Crown & Bridge and Oral Implantology i.e. that branch of Dental art and science pertaining to the restoration and maintenance of oral function, health, comfort and appearance by the replacement of mission or lost natural teeth and associated tissues either by fixed or removable artificial substitutes.

  • Periodontology
    Periodontology and Oral Implantology is the science dealing with the health and diseases of the investing and supporting structures of the teeth and oral mucous membrane.

  • Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
    Oral and Maxillofacial surgery and implantology deals with the diagnosis and surgical and adjunctive treatment or diseases, injuries and defects of the human jaws and associated oral and facial structures.

  • Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics
    Conservative dentistry deals with prevention and treatment of the diseases and injuries of the hard tissues and the pulp of the tooth and associated periapical lesions.

  • Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics
    Deals with prevention and correction of oral anomalies and malocclusion and the harnmonizing of the structures involved, so that the dental mechanisms will function in a normal way.

  • Oral Pathology & Microbiology
    Oral Pathology deals with the nature of oral diseases, their causes, processes and effects. It relates the clinical manifestation of oral diseases to the physiologic and anatomic changes associated with these diseases.

  • Public Health Dentistry
    Community Dentistry is the science and art of preventing and controlling dental diseases and promoting dental health through organized community efforts.

  • Paedodontics and Preventive Dentistry
    Deals with prevention and treatment of oral and dental ailments that may occur during childhood.

  • Oral Medicine and Radiology
    Oral Medicine is that specialty of dentistry concerned with the basic diagnostic procedures and techniques useful in recognizing the diseases of the oral tissues of local and constitutional origin and their medical management. Radiology is a science dealing with X-rays and their uses in diagnosis and treatment of diseases in relation to orofacial diseases.