Public Health Dentistry

The Department of Public Health Dentistry at Adhiparasakthi Dental College and Hospital aims to prevent oral diseases and promote oral health in the community as a whole. Our department “To integrate oral health into everyone’s life” Oral Health promotion is done by conducting Dental awareness programs through various camps, role plays, Rally, Skit, demonstration, and signal campaigns. The undergraduate students are trained with a sense of responsibility and compassion to prevent dental diseases like Dental Caries, Periodontal Disease, Oral cancer, malocclusion and edentulousness. Outreach activities including screening as well as treatment dental camps are conducted periodically in the surrounding villages of Melmaruvathur to benefit the school children and general public. The importance of oral health promotion in improving their quality of life is emphasized and utilization of the dental services is encouraged.

Two satellite dental clinics are established in Madhuranthagam and Venmalagaram to provide affordable dental services in an accessible manner. Both the satellite clinics are situated within a circumference of 25 kms from Adhiparasakthi Dental College and Hospital.

Tobacco cessation centre is actively functioning in the college to counsel and motivate the patients who are willing to quit tobacco (smoking and smokless forms) and contribute towards reduction of tobacco related mortality and morbidity.
The undergraduates are trained to conduct various epidemiological surveys to assess the oral health needs of the population, create oral health awareness and develop preventive and treatment strategies for the community.

VISION

To improve the oral health of the community by creating awareness towards the prevention of dental diseases and to utilize the dental services available.

MISSION

The identify the dental needs of the community especially the poor and needy and to make dental services accessible and available to them
To innovate newer health education strategies suitable for the community to improve the oral health
To inculcate social responsibility among students in improving the oral health of the society
To integrate with all the dental departments and various sectors to promote oral health.

 Key features:

• Well-equipped mobile dental bus to reach the un-reach population
• Dental Museum with numerous health education models.
• Tobacco cessation clinic assist the uers to quit the tobacco habit
• Departmental library and wifi internet facility

Mobile Dental Bus

Dental Museum

Tobacco Cessation Clinic

Equipments in research lab

Vortex	Spectrophotometer	RT- PCR

ELISA- Reader	Plasma Centrifuge

The treatments offered in the department spans  a wide range  such as:

• Topical Fluoride Application
• Pit and Fissure Sealant Application
• Atraumatic Restorative Treatment
• Oral Prophylaxis
• Tobacco Cessation Counseling
• Screening of oral diseases among school children and General Public
• Treatment camps at their doorsteps
• Oral awareness Programs
• Clinical practice at Primary Health Centers
• Dental care at Door steps
• Conducting Oral Health surveys

Department of Research

Research consultant:

Dr.DhamodharanUmapathy, Ph.D.,

Research Consultant

APDCH

Biostatistician:

Mr. Magesh Babu D, M.Sc.,

Statistical Software’s Available at APDCH

SPSS Version 16	IBM SPSS Version 22	STATA Version 16	Geo Da	QGIS version 3.16

Open Epi	R Programming	epi Info	Graphpad Prism

Dr.K.Rajeswary and Dr.S.Kalaivani ,Authored Book titled “A manual on tobacco cessation counseling” by Mahi Publishers with ISBN Number 978-93-91556-90-7