Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry
Pediatric dentistry is one of the most important branches of dentistry that aims to provide comprehensive oral health care for children including those with special heath care needs, and simultaneously, instills and implements a positive dental attitude for a lifetime.
The word “Pediatric Dentistry” appears to be very simple to comprehend but for the intricacies of the relation between the child, the dentist and the parent. Pediatric Dentistry is an age specific specialty not a technique or disease specific specialty.
Prevention and behavior modification are the two hallmarks of Pediatric Dentistry which make it unique from other specialties of dentistry. It concentrates on integration of appropriate tactics and clinical knowledge from other specialties into a framework of quality oral health care for children.
The department of pedodontics in HKE’s S Nijalingappa institute of dental sciences and research Gulbarga is renovated recently with more child friendly clinical setup consisting of 20 dental chairs, X ray unit with RVG and intra oral camera and well equipped laboratory and separate children’s recreation and entrainment section