Oral Medicine and Radiology.
Courses Offered :
BDS (4.5 years plus 1 year compulsory internship)
MDS (3 years)
Achievements & Awards
Best paper presentation awarded to Dr. Haris. P.S. in Talent 2005 held in RCC – “Panoramic Radiography”
Best 2nd paper presentation awarded to Dr. Sunu Ramachandran in First South Indian Dental Conference, Dec. 2005 – “ Oral histoplasmosis”
Best poster presentation awarded to Dr. Sunu Ramachandran in First South Indian Dental Conference, Dec. 2005 – “ Primary malignant melanoma of oral cavity”
Details of Research Projects in progress and publications for 2005
Dr. Venu - Diagnostic significance of in vivo autofluorescence spectroscopy in leukoplakia
Dr. Nileena. R. Kumar - P53 tumor suppressor protein expression in Oral Submucous Fibrosis – A Clinico Pathologic study
Dr. Sunu Ramachandran – Expression of CYP-1 and GST genes in Oral Submucous Fibrosis. – A Clinico Pathologic study
Dr. Haris. P.S. - Fluorescence spectroscopy for the in vivo diagnosis of oral submucous fibrosis
Dr. Sunu Ramachandran – Prevalence of Oral mucosal lesions in geriatric patients – a 3 month epidemiological study
Dr. Twinkle S Prasad – Epidemiological study of TMJ disorders
Dr. Ashish – Normal autofluorescence spectroscopic study.
Publications
Solitary plasmacell myeloma of mandible – Roentgenographic variants. Dr. Anita Balan, Dr. Tinky Bose, Dr. Deepa M.S & Dr. Nileena R. Kumar. JIAOMR 2005. 17:02,66-71.
TOTAL NUMBER OF PATIENTS ATTENDING ORAL MEDICINE AND RADIOLOGY O.P. CLINIC
2003 - 41515
2004 - 55029
2005 - 41833
Patient Statistics in 2005
The total number of patients who attended the OP from Jan 2005 to Dec 2005 was 41833 which includes male, female and child patients sent to various departments. Around 75 biopsies were taken in the department. 940 patients were treated for various mucosal lesions. There were about 232 reference to the Regional Cancer Centre. A total of 14782 intra oral periapical X-rays, 985 Occlusal, 1220 panoramic X-rays and 676 cephalometric X-rays were taken.
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