Dental Hygienist

Dental Hygienist : A dental hygienist is a licensed dental professional who is registered with a dental association or regulatory body within their country of practice. They are a primary healthcare professional who works independent of, or alongside dentists and other dental professionals in a team to provide full oral health care. They have the training and education that focus and specialise in the prevention and treatment of oral disease. They can choose to work in a range of dental settings from independent practice, private practice, specialists practices to public sector; and can also work in residential aged care facilities.

 

Dentistry is a part of medical science that deals with the problems that affects mouth such as soft and hard tissues of oral cavity, gums and teeth.  It studies about the prevention, evaluation, diagnosis and the treatment of disorders and settings of tissues and diseases that affect the mouth. The profession of dentistry also takes cares of dental care and correction of teeth.  Graduates who specialize in this field are known as dentists.

Dentists utilize range of measures and techniques in treating their patients such as fitting artificial replacements, filling, extracting teeth, scaling and crowning of teeth and treating cum diseases. Dentistry problems related to jaws or any invasive oral procedure are normally taken care by oral surgeons.

Dental surgeons make laser surgery, implants, trauma surgery, tissue grafts in order to correct them. Dentists also instruct patients about oral hygiene and ways to mantain a healthy teeth as well as prevent  dental problems. Hence there is lot of scopefor this profession in India.

 

Eligibility :

 

UG: 4 years

 

For taking admission into this course a student should have completed his/her two years intermediate, HSC or equivalent course, with science subjects such as physics, chemistry, maths and biology from a recognized university. 

 

PG: 2 years

 

For taking admission into this course a student must have completed his/her BDS (Bachelor of Dental Surgery) degree from a recognized University.