Welcome to the Department of Paediatric & Preventive Dentistry at the Narsinhbhai Patel Dental College & Hospital, Visnagar. Through its exemplary education research and service programs the department of paediatric dentistry:
Teaches students and residents the skills necessary for improving and maintaining the health of infants, children, adolescents and person with special needs. Trains families effectively in preventive measures which ensure the lifetime of excellent oral health.
The department promotes oral health within the community and develops policies and guidelines relating to the promotion and maintenance of good oral health among children.
The department was established within the aims of comprehensive training of the undergraduate students to acquire knowledge and skills in order to enable them to effectively deal with the problems encountered in a child. This course consists of didactic practical and clinical components for which the latest equipment and materials are available along with the qualified and efficient staff to supervise. The training is designed to provide the students with broadest possible exposure to paediatric dentistry including outpatient management school dental health programs counselling of parents and children and chair-side general anaesthesia for medically compromised patients.
The department is well equipped with 20 dental chairs for U.G and 11 dental chairs for PG and 1 dental chair for isolation room for an uncooperative child. The isolation room is equipped with instruments such as pulse-oximeter, wheelchair, Boyle’s apparatus, etc.
An isolation room for special child care, a counselling room equipped with audio-visual aids for educating parents and children. The Audio-visual modes for behaviour shaping and management and a wide range of latest dental materials along with facilities are available. The students can lay their hands on the state of the art equipment like RVG, pulp tester, rotary hand piece, Nitrous Oxide Machine etc, for clinical work. For preclinical training, we have included orthodontic wire bending along with the fabrication of appliances which is started in the third year of UG’s. Restorative skills are honed with practice on Typhodont before introducing them to patients.
Patients who require full mouth rehab are treated under GA in a safe hospital-based dental unit in the presence of Anaesthesiologist.
30 and more schools of Taluka are adopted by department of paediatric and preventive dentistry, over the period of inception.
Under Pedo-waves title Debarment has conducted 10 Expert lecture e and an extensive 5 Day CDE program on interceptive orthodontics which has been attended by delegate across the nation and speakers has been invited from national and international platform.