Buddha Dental College & Hospital

Overview

Oral Medicine is a speciality of dentistry that focuses on the diagnosis and medical management of complex diagnostic and medical disorders affecting the mouth and jaw. It lies at the interface between medicine & dentistry. An Oral Medicine specialist is a “Physician of the mouth”. The speciality manages oral mucosal diseases, salivary gland diseases. Oral cancer screening, tobacco cessation initiatives and management of disease using intralesional injections are some aspects of the professional training programme. Oral Radiology is an integral part of Oral Medicine.

Department:

The Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at BIDSH, Patna is a specialty in dentistry established in 1984. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is a unique branch bridging dentistry and medical sciences. The department provides treatment ranging from routine tooth extractions and impacted tooth surgeries to advanced procedures such as TMJ ankylosis surgery, cleft lip and palate correction, orthognathic surgery, reconstructive facial surgery, maxillofacial trauma management, and cosmetic facial surgery.

The department is equipped with modern surgical units, advanced equipment, dedicated operation theatres, cardiac monitoring systems, pulse oximeters, cautery systems, and specialized surgical instruments. Additional faculty and auxiliary staff ensure efficient patient care and clinical training.

A fully functional operation theatre complex supports major surgical procedures while providing continuous monitoring and postoperative care. The department remains committed to excellence in patient care, education, and research.

UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM:

The under graduate program deals with extraction of teeth and the complications arising and the subsequent management along with the management of medical emergencies on the dental chair.
This program involves lectures, seminars, clinical experiences in the last 2 years of the 4-year dental curriculum.
Students are exposed to a wide variety of orofacial pathologies and all students get an extensive knowledge of asepsis in clinical practice along with clinical experience in extractions and observations and assistance in minor and major surgical procedures.
Those interested in research will be able to collaborate in some of the ongoing research projects in the department.
The undergraduate section has 32 dental chairs, on which the students are trained the basic procedures of oral surgery.

POSTGRADUATE CURRICULUM:

The post graduate section has – cabins with dental chairs for each post graduate student.
There are 20 chairs in the Minor Operation Theatres.
About – cases of minor oral surgery are done by post graduates per week which include all complicated Dento-Alveolar Surgeries, Biopsies, Small cysts and Tumour Excisions, Minor Scar Revisions and Fracture Treatment.
With support of team of Oral Surgery, a variety of different cases are operated under General Anaesthesia and Local Anaesthesia.
All major cases are operated here in the highly equipped operation theatres and first-rate care is provided to post-operative patients in the attached ICU facility with attached NABH accredited Hospital.
Along with this various research projects to train the students in research methodology allotted to the post graduate students.

1. CDE programs

ON Periodic Interval

DEPARTMENT FACILITIES AND ACTIVITIES

1. Infrastructure

Separate unit for under graduates and postgraduates with fully equipped ultra-modern dental chairs.
Minor surgery unit with post operative room
Laser surgery unit
Dental Implantology clinic
Seminar room with audio visual unit
Ward for day care post-surgery patients
Instruments for orthognathic surgery (Stryker Oscillating saw)
Instruments for maxillofacial cleft surgeries.
Instruments for TMJ surgeries.

2. Services to patients

Painless Dental extraction
Trans alveolar extraction
Impacted teeth surgery
Maxillofacial trauma surgery
Maxillofacial cyst and tumour surgery
TMJ ankylosis surgery
Maxillofacial cleft surgery
Orthognathic surgery
Dental implant surgery

Peripheral Posting for PGs:

AIIMS Patna for Peripheral training in the department of Surgical Oncology (Head and Neck), Trauma and Emergency ENT, Ophthalmology, for post graduates.