MDS ORTHODONTICS
THE DAWN
IT ALL STARTED IN 1996...
The Post graduate program emerged in 1996 with 7 students per year,
Since inception the dept is relentlessly striving down the year to serve the society by creating awareness and providing quality treatment
This department is the fountainhead of eminent orthodontists who are heading the department in various other institution
CLINICAL INSIGHT
The post graduates are conversant with boundless clinical exposure
Our biggest strength is more number of patients inflow, we have a OP census of 2000 patients per year
Each pg student has to start 100 CASES and complete their treatment within their course time there by empowering them with confidence
They up-skill themselves with the state of the art appliance varying from lingual technique, self ligating brackets, aligners and mini implants.
They are also exposed to treating cleft patients in our newly opened cleft and craniofacial institute
They are also trained in treating cases with interdisciplinary approach with the departments of oral surgery, pedodontics and periodontics
The special cases will be presented in SHOWCASE
ACADEMICS & RESEARCH
Each PG student has to do 5 Short term research projects per year and will be presented in STAR SUMMIT every year
At the end of first year the postgraduates are assessed in additional subjects like Research Methodology and Bio-statistics
They are also encouraged to attend conference & convention and present their paper, poster and table clinic work every year
They also publish a systematic review at the end of first year on their selected thesis topic
INFRASTRUCTURE
GO GREEN GO DIGITAL - All the patients records are maintained through RMS (record management system)
The department uses FACAD software for the cephalometric tracing, prediction and super imposition
Department also have highly equipped lab for postgraduates and a seminar hall with smart board system
The department is planning on the next venture of opening an Exclusive Lingual clinic
STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM:
We have signed MoU for student exchange program with University of California , Los Angeles (UCLA) and Kyungpook National university, South Korea for our post graduate students.