The department of Prosthodontics is the largest floor wise and strength wise. The Department trains students from the first year of undergraduate course till the final year BDS and later on the interns. The department has a preclinical and a clinical wing. The preclinical wing comprises of dental material and preclinical prosthodontics laboratories along with a museum.
Activities: Prosthodontics is the dental specialty responsible for the diagnosis, treatment planning, rehabilitation and maintenance of patients with complex clinical conditions using biocompatible substitutes, including implants, to restore missing or deficient teeth and/or craniofacial tissues in aesthetics and function. Prosthodontics training requires extensive and combined knowledge’s in oral anatomy, oral physiology, materials science, occlusion, aesthetics, and head and neck oncology.
Prosthodontics can be divided into two major categories by its function and forms, which is fixed and removable Prosthodontics. Removable Prosthodontics can be further divided into partial and complete Prosthodontics. Prosthodontics also includes; maxillofacial Prosthodontics for facial defect, Geriatric dentistry to adapt aging society, implant dentistry, and aesthetic dentistry whose needs are consistently growing.
The department is well equipped with good preclinical and clinical sections. In this clinical facility, students gain patient management skills and are taught the importance of disease prevention, in addition to undertaking oral health rehabilitation under careful supervision of experienced clinical staff that impart knowledge as part of undergraduate training.