Periodontics

Welcome to Department of periodontics, College of Dental surgery, Saveetha University. Periodontics is that specialty of dentistry, which encompasses the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases affecting the supporting and surrounding tissues of the teeth or their substitutes, such as dental implants. The speciality also concerns itself with the maintenance of health, function and esthetics of these structures and tissues.


The Department provides didactic and clinical instructions in Periodontology at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.  Our enormous patient strength makes our patient care and research programmes numerous and diverse.  On an average 2000 patients in our out patient clinic. Our experienced faculty guide the students in the treatment of periodontal disease, studies of new regenerative and implant techniques, ridge augmentation guided bone regeneration, sinus elevation, ridge expansion and management of peri-implantitis. On an average post graduate do 90 -100 periodontal surgical cases per month.

We are able to achieve 95% Pass percentage and 90% Attendance for both UG and PG students annually. Research methodology is primarily taught to postgraduate students. The primary areas of research include, Genetics, Perio medicine, salivary biomarkers, Etiopathogenesis and Immunological aspects in periodontal disease.
The department is providing various services to the patients. It includes scaling and polishing of teeth, splinting of mobile teeth, demonstrating proper brushing techniques with models, surgical treatment for enlarged gingiva(gums), periodontal flap surgery for the treatment of Periodontal pocket, bone grafting, Guided Tissue Regeneration (GTR), root coverage procedures, frenectomy, ridge augmentation, placement of dental Implants.

Department has adequately spacious UG and PG clinic with kavo chairs. It has state of the art equipments like RVG, implant systems, intraoral cameras and other surgical equipments. It also has a separate seminar room, department library with vast array of books and electronic study resources.

Department ensures strict aseptic measures for all treatment. Department is having fully automatic autoclave for sterilization of instruments, gauze, cotton, suture needles. Students are using proper barrier methods to prevent cross infection. Infected and non infected waste are separately collected as per the procedure and sent for safe disposal.
 

 

Faculty:

 Name
Qualification
Designation
Dr.Jayakumar.N.DM.D.S. 
Professor & Head
Dr.Padmalatha.O 
M.D.S.Professor
Dr.Sheeja S.Varghese 
M.D.S.Professor
Dr.Sankari.R 
M.D.S.Reader
Dr.Gopinath.V 
M.D.S.Lecturer
Dr.R.Jaiganesh M.D.S.Lecturer
Dr.G.Karthikeyan
M.D.S.Lecturer
Dr.K.S.PraveenaB.D.S.Lecturer


 

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