JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research Mysore
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- Co - Education
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Master of Dental Surgery (MDS) Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry
MDS Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry
Course
M.D.S. Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry or Master of Dental Surgery in Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry is a postgraduate Dentistry course. Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry is an age-defined specialty that provides both primary and comprehensive preventive and therapeutic oral health care for infants and children through adolescence, including those with special health care needs. Course helps to identify and differentiate between normal and abnormal somatic dentofacial and psychological growth and development and to promote physical, mental, psychological and dental health of the child, to note any aberrant alterations in development of child, to improve the dental health in accord to the general health and to encourage the dental profession at all levels to ensure that the younger generation in the future will require less dental treatment.
Eligibility
- Students should have passed a B.D.S. degree with minimum 55% marks from a recognized university board.
- Some reputed colleges and universities conduct an entrance examination for admission.
Duration: 3 years
Higher Studies: Ph.D. (Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry)
Career Opportunities
- Dentist
- Lecturer & Professor
- Medical Marketing Executive
- Team Leader – Pharmacovigilance
- Technical Expert- Dentistry
