Department Overview

The Department of Public Health Dentistry at Anil Neerukonda Institute of Dental Sciences, Visakhapatnam was established in 2013. It aims to build up oral health need records of the community, develops and plans strategies to meet those needs, deliver oral health services to the needy and the deprived segment of the community through outreach programs by provide transportation services for the patients to reach the college for accessing treatment. The department is entirely equipped for carrying out all kind of public oral health programs. Department frequently conducts camps and oral health education programs in various institutions, primary healthcare centers, community halls, public and private sectors undertakings in rural as well as urban areas through fully equipped mobile dental van.

Department is very well equipped with fully functional dental chairs for carrying out all comprehensive dental care for OPD patients. Department also has its own digital seminar room for students to improve their knowledge and skills in an interactive manner. The department bags a capacious library with good number of latest resourceful books and Online access portal for various journals thus providing most recent information available in the literature. Outreach activities include ,Camps, School Oral Health Programs, satellite centres and field visits. Dental doctors skilled in clinical expertise along with interns are posted in all satellite centers to cater to the needs of the community.

Tobacco Cessation Clinic(TCC): It is the most effective way of health intervention to reduce the impact of tobacco related mortality and morbidity.

Undergraduate Programme This program involves weekly lectures seminars, demonstration of recording indices. Students prepare oral health education material posters, chart & models on different topics so that it will help to educate patients in simple way. Students show different brushing techniques to the patients on models. They show plaque control measures to the patient by using various disclosing agents. Educating patient concerning the etiology and prevention of oral disease and encourage them to assure responsibility for oral health.

Postgraduate Programme: The postgraduate section is fully equipped with individual dental chambers allotted to each student to expertise his own work. The seminars, journal clubs, paper and poster presentation by the students improves their proclamation and oration skills. Students have to attend workshops, CDE programme, lectures, seminars, webinars and presenting posters & papers in various national and international conferences to gain exposure to the recent advancement of dentistry.