UG Programme
An undergraduate student in the Department of Periodontology is concerned with preventive dental services, basic treatment of periodontal diseases and its maintenance care. At the undergraduate level a student is prepared to observe, carefully examine and assess, diagnose and thereafter treat the periodontal diseases. An undergraduate is taught that Periodontics is the specialty area in dentistry which encompasses the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the supporting and surrounding tissues of teeth or their substitutes and maintenance of health, function and esthetics of these structures and tissues. During internship the students are trained for ultrasonic instrumentation and enthusiastic students are trained for periodontal surgical procedures as well.