Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

It aims to develop basic skills like comprehensive diagnosis, prescribing various relevant laboratory tests and communicating skills regarding informing patients about treatment options. It aspires to provide students experience in routine oral surgical procedures and instill a confidence in them to perform the same in future. The OMFS practice at IDST includes full range of diagnostics, inpatient and outpatient services. The department of OMFS prides itself with state of the art equipment for routine procedure as well as functional operating theatre capable of handling all sorts of oral, maxillofacial, head and neck procedures. The department takes keen interest in teaching as well as executing procedures like cancer, clefts, and orthognathic surgeries. Being situated on a national highway the college gets its fair share of maxillofacial trauma and the department deals with it on daily basis. The department of Oral and maxillofacial surgery has recently operated on streak of head and neck carcinomas and maxillofacial anomalies like facial disfigurement due to ankylosis either because of trauma or neonatal incidence. The newely developed Implant training center has been designed with the vision to keep the students and trainees abreast with lates innovations in implant dentistry. The faculty has been invited to speak in CDE about basic topics pertaining to specialties. The operation theatre is particularly well equipped to handle oncology cases and subsequent reconstruction. The department aspires to have an independent cancer operating unit which would deal with treatment as well as research for development of the oncology field.