General  Information

Understanding a disease process right through pathogenesis and clinical behaviour prepares the clinician to intercept and treat. And we endeavour to impart this knowledge to our students so that they can be good clinicians in the future.The Department is responsible for teaching, research, and service for a variety of head and neck pathologies with emphasis on diseases of the mouth, jaws, TMJ (temporomandibular joint), and oral manifestations of bodily disease.

The Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology is the department with responsibilities for undergraduate teaching in the first three years of the BDS course, preparing young minds to help them become better dental surgeons in their lives, by laying down healthy foundations of the basic subjects. Along with the academic duties, the department also serves the community by providing biopsy & cytology service and also routine haematology services.

Highlights

Spacious Dental Anatomy / Oral pathology Lab with modern microscopes for Undergraduate students Well equipped histopathology lab Haematology and Clinical Pathology laboratory Biopsy service for Cervico – facial pathologies. Oral Cancer Detection Clinic

Previous heads of Department

Prof. R. M. Mathur Deptt. of Oral Surgery 04 - 04 - 1983 15 - 02 - 2001 Prof. R. Pradhan Deptt. of Oral Surgery 15 - 02 - 2001 02 - 03  - 2001 Prof. S. K. Singh Deptt. of Prosthodontics 03 - 03 - 2001 09 - 09 - 2003 Prof. R. Pradhan Deptt. of Oral Surgery 09 - 09 - 2003 21 - 02 - 2005 Dr. Renu Wadhwani Deptt. of Oral Pathology 22 - 02 - 2005 30 - 08 - 2006 Dr. Mala Kamboj Deptt. of Oral Pathology 31 - 08 - 2006 05 - 05 - 2008 Dr. Shalini Gupta Deptt. of Oral Pathology 05 - 05 - 2008 till date

Future perspective –The department plans to start post graduate education in the subject. Apart from this, we also plan to set up an immunohistochemistry lab to help us reach a more accurate diagnosis for better patient management.