Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology and Oral Microbiology
The Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology and Oral Microbiology deals with the teaching of Dental Anatomy, Oral Histology and Oral Pathology to the Undergraduate and Post graduate students and deals with the Investigations and diagnosis of diseases. The department efficiently provides cytopathological and histopathological reports of oral and aboral structures for a variety of lesions such as premalignant and malignant lesions, soft tissue tumours, odontogenic cysts and tumours.
- Provide the highest level of microscopy diagnostic skills utilizing, when appropriate, new technologies in immunohistochemistry and molecular studies
- Diagnose and Manage patients with mucosal disease and head and neck pain syndromes whose primary treatment modality is nonsurgica
- Compete successfully for research grants from industry and other sponsoring institutions; and
- Excel as teachers and leaders in the specialty
Work undertaken in department
UG TrainingOur objective is to motivate undergraduates towards fundamentals in oral biology.
- The department is involved in teaching 1st Year, 2nd Year, 3rd Year BDS students. Students are taught subjects of Oral Embryology & Histology, Oral Pathology and Forensic Dentistry.
- Students are encouraged to present case reports of special cases.
- PG Programme was established in the year 2009.
- The overall goal for post graduate programme is to train a specialist who is able to:
- Provide highest level of microscopy diagnostic skills utilizing appropriate new technologies
- Immunohistochemistry
- Oral Cancer Screening
- Diagnosis and management of patients with syndromes
- Encourage post graduate students to learn about modern teaching techniques to upgrade and enhance the teaching methodology by attending and conducting various workshops.
- To compete for research grants from various sponsoring bodies
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Equipment and Modernization
- - The Department has a state of the art infrastructure to carry out histopathological, histochemical and immunohistochemical studies.
- - Spacious Dental Anatomy/ Oral Pathology Lab with modern microscopes for undergraduate students.
- - Hematology and clinical pathology laboratory
- - Oral cancer detection clinic
- - Sophisticated instrumentation such as immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence and image analyser.
- - The department is pivotal in conducting inter and intradisciplinary research projects with the avaliable equipments like research microscope. Image analyser.
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