Dental Education in India

            Dentistry is the next option for the students when they do not get a MBBS seat. Though there are many students who opt for this course, this program is always a secondary choice for students. The BDS course is the basic undergraduate course that has to be taken up. To enter in to this program, students should take up difficult entrance exams.  The marks of their higher secondary exams and the marks of the entrance exams will be taken in to account. Based on this, the students will be given the cut-off marks. Then, the students will be admitted in various government and private colleges. This is the pattern, which is followed every year.

The students have to prepare extremely well to take up the entrance exams. Only few students get government college seats and others have to go in for the option of private colleges, in which the fee structure is high. It may cost up to several lakhs to pursue Dental education in private colleges. Entrance exams like the DUMET, CBSE, TNPCEE, PMT and BCECE are conducted every successive year to select students for admission. Almost 20,000 students pass out of the dental colleges every year. There are reasonable numbers of Dental colleges in India and most of the students get a seat either in a government-aided college or in a private sector. After completing the under graduation program, students have to pursue higher education in order to specialize in the field. This would include the Masters in the Dental Surgery.

           Various subjects like Endodontics, pharmacology, physiology, anatomy, pathology, pedodontics and general medicine are covered in the syllabus giving them the right exposure in this field at the very basic level. In the long run, this field is about to boom like many other famous fields and now students are paying more and more attention to the BDS course. The students have bright future and can pursue their higher education in India, as the education standards are equal to the foreign standards. The recognition gained by the Indian Dental Colleges is so high, wherein students from abroad opt to study here.

DENTAL COLLEGES IN DELHI

Maulana Azad Dental College & Hospital
MAMC Complex
Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg New Delhi-110002
Tel: 011-23239271 to 23239280
Website: www.mamc.ac.in