Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry

The department of Preventive and Community Dentistry is dedicated to train the graduate and under graduate students in public health dentistry to work within interdisciplinary team to conduct investigation on the risk factor for oral disease and the use of oral epidemology method to study health outcome of dental service and oral health policy. Preventive and community dentistry is a subject design to help the students to explore professional ethics as they relate to dentist’s relationship to peer, patient and community. Students attend dental camps and perform initial screening examination. They sensitizie to specific needs of a variety of patient population.