Community Dentistry

Introduction

Community Dentistry is a basic science subject taught in the Second Professional year of BDS. The main purpose of the teaching program is to give the concepts of Oral Epidemiology, Oral Health Promotion, Research and Behavior Sciences to under graduate students. It provides the future dentist with the skillsets necessary to care for a community as well as individuals within the community. Through our teaching program and community service we continue to meet this challenge.

Mission

The Department is dedicated to develop a generation of health care professionals that understand the community context in disease treatment and prevention and strive for sustainable oral health policies.

Objectives

The major objectives of biochemistry department are:

The community dentistry department of the Dental College HITEC- institute of medical sciences is dedicated to provide thorough knowledge, skills and guidance for undergraduate dental students about the subject.
To create a platform for the students through our community outreach programs, enabling them and instilling in them the confidence which will promote learning and a love for the subject, and impart in them the sense of community service.

Faculty of Community Dentistry

Head of Department

Name : Dr. Maria Rabbani

Designation : Assistant Professor & Head of Department

Qualification : BDS, MPH, CHPE

Dr.Maria graduated from DeMontmorency College of Dentistry,Lahore in 2009 and completed her Masters in Public Health from Sarhad University of Information Technology in 2015.She started her professional career as Demonstrator in Islam Medical and Dental College in 2011.She joined Frontier Dental College,Abottabad as Senior registrar in 2017.From 2018 to 2021 she worked in Islam Medical and Dental College as Assistant Professor. She joined Dental College HITEC-IMS on September 13,2021.

She has many publications in National and International Journals and is an Editorial member of HITEC Medical and Dental Journal. She is working as Head Research cell at Dental College HITEC-IMS and is research representative of CME/CPD committee. She is also a member of IRB and Mentoring committee.

Faculty

Sr. No	Name	Designation	Qualifications
1.	Dr. Maria Rabbani	Assistant Professor & HOD of Department	BDS , MPH, CHPE
2.	Dr. Amna Faisal	Demonstrator	BDS
3.	Dr. Naufal Nadeem	Demonstrator	BDS