Chharapati Sambhajinagar:
The State Government has approved one more dental postgraduate course for Government Dental College and Hospital (GDCH) of the city for the academic year 2025-26. The name of the course is MDS in Public Health Dentistry.
The GDCH offers eight PG courses currently. Now, one more will start from the coming academic year. A total of three students will get admission to the new course.
GDCH dean Dr Maya Indurkar, community dentistry head Dr Jagdishchandra Vathar, Dr Harshal Bafna under the guidance of Commissioner of Medical and Research Department Rajiv Nivatkar, joint director (Dental) Dr Vivek Pakhmore, worked for the approval of the new course.
One more PG course in Pediatric Dentistry is yet to be started. Efforts are being made by the college administration for this. The existing PG courses included Prosthodontics, Oral Surgery, Dental Conservative and Endodontics, Oral Pathology, Oral Medicine and Radiology.
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Striving for ‘Paediatric Dentistry’
The government has approved the start of a postgraduate course in the subject of Public Health Dentistry. This has become the eighth ‘PG’ course in the college. Now efforts are being made to start ‘PG’ in the subject of Paediatric Dentistry as well.
(Dr Maya Indurkar, Dean)