DENTAL education in Orissa is set for a major leap with the dental wing of SCB Medical College and Hospital (SCBMCH) here bracing to introduce post-graduate courses from the ensuing academic session.
The Health Ministry, on the basis of the recommendations of the Dental Council of India (DCI), has granted the dental wing of the SCBMCH to offer PG courses in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Pedodontics departments.
These would be the first PG courses in any dental stream in the State.
According to vice-principal of the dental wing Dr Niranjan Satpathy, both the departments would have two seats each, which would be filled by one candidate each from the State and one from national counselling.
In February, the DCI inspected the college to assess the latter’s capacity to effectively deliver training in higher education in fields of specialisation and all parameters like infrastructure, staffing pattern and patient service were examined before making recommendation to the Centre.
Besides, the dental college is also expecting an increase in BDS seats from 20 to 50 from the current academic year. A DCI team had been on an assessment visit and returned on Sunday. The permission for PG courses will be a catalyst for grant of additional seats, Satpathy hoped.
Head of the Oral and Maxillofacial department Dr Indubhusan Kar observed that the PG streams would churn out specialists in the emerging fields of dentistry to fill the void. ‘‘With people waking up to the importance of dental care and hygiene, the opportunities are growing. Demand for restructuring distortion caused by natural causes, disease or accident is on the rise and we need specialists to attend to them,’’ he said. Pedodontics or paediatric dentistry is an important specialisation where doctors have to be specially trained as they have to deal with children, including infants.
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