Career: Dentist

The One Step Up Career Program

Eligibility• Minimum of 50% in the

aggregate of Physics, Chemistry and Biology

• Minimum age of 17 years at the time of writing the entrance test

Entrance Exam• CBSE to conduct National

Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) from 2013 for all government and private medical colleges

• Medical Colleges like AIIMS, Manipal, St Johns, JIPMER, CMC, Vellore conduct their own exams

Things to prepare for• Physics, Chemistry,

Zoology, Botany, Biology of class XI and XII

• Time management skills for the exam.

• Previous year's papers

Bachelors in Dental Sciences

Test contents: 180 MCQs to be completed in 180 minutes. Four sections-Physics, Chemistry, Botany & Zoology1 mark negative marking

College of Dental Sciences, Manipal Maulana Azad Institute, Delhi Govt Dental Coll & Hospital, Mumbai Nair Hospital Dental College, Mumbai Dr R. Ahmed Dental College, Kolkata Bapuji Dental Coll & Hospital, Dawangere College of Dental Sciences, Dawangere Faculty of Dental Sciences, Lucknow Meenakshi Ammal Dental College, Chennai Govt Dental College, Bangalore Saveetha Dental College, Chennai AB Shetty Mem Inst of Dental Sc,

Mangalore SRM Dental College, Chennai Amrita Inst of Medical Sciences, Kochi Govt Dental College, Thiruvananthapuram

2012 Outlook Dental College Rankings

Prosthodontics

These guys replace natural

and missing teeth

Treat facial deformities

PeriodonticsDiagnosing,

preventing and treating gum

disease

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Treat and diagnose

defects, injuries and diseases of the mouth, jaw,

teeth, neck, gums

Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics

root canal specialist

Types of Dentistry

Oral Pathology & MicrobiologyDiagnosis for diseases that

affect the mouth

Community DentistryWorking in

areas of public health, creating

awareness

Pedodontics/Pediatric and

Preventive DentistryDeals with

children under 16-years

Orthodontics & Dentofacial Orthopaedics

treat the misalignment of teeth and facial development

Types of Dentistry

Colleges

South East

Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore

Govt. Medical College, Mysore

Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore

Government Medical College, Kozhikode

Government Medical College, Kottayam

T.D. Medical College, Alleppey

Sri Ramakrishna Dental College &

Hospital, Coimbatore

Tamil Nadu Govt. Dental College, Chennai

Indira Gandhi Medical College & Research

Institute, Puducherry

Guwahati Medical College, Guwahati

Regional Dental College, Guwahati

Dr.R.Ahmed Dental College and

Hospital, Kolkata

Government Dental College, Burdwan

Guru Nanak Institute of Dental Science

& Research, Kolkata

Haldia Institute of Dental Science &

Research

The North Bengal Dental College,

Siliguri

Colleges

West North

B.J. Medical College, Ahmedabad

Government Medical College, Surat

Medical College, Baroda

GMERS Medical College, Gandhinagar

B.J. Medical College, Pune

Indira Gandhi Medical College, Nagpur

Seth G.S. Medical College, Mumbai

KJ Somaiyya Medical College & Research

Centre, Mumbai

Dr DY Patil Medical College, Pune &

Mumbai

Goa Medical College, Panaji

Govt. Medical College, Patiala, Amritsar &

Chandigarh

Dayanand Medical College & Hospital,

Ludhiana

SMS Medical College, Jaipur

Dr. S.N. Medical College, Jodhpur

National Institute of Medical Science &

Research, Jaipur

Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla

Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj Medical

University, Lucknow

Aligarh Muslim University

Banaras Hindu University

“BDS is like a condensed MBBS Course. The syllabus for the first 3 years is the same for both.

The difference is that dentistry is less in-depth. While studying BDS, students focus on the head, neck, chest, thorax [MBBS students learn about the limbs as well]”

- Dr Yohan Chacko, Dentist

BDS vs MBBS

The good The Not-so-great

Money is good

Start practice early

Less hectic

than (MBBS) doctors

City you

practice in will

matter

Need to be constantly updated

The good and the not-so-great...

Good interpersonal

skills

Ability to deduce!

Subject specialist

Dexterity and good surgical skills!

What you need to be a good dentist...

Dentist

Hospitals

Private practice

Teach

Armed Forces

Where can you work?

Starting out

• On an average would be ₹ 10-15,000• Hospitals will pay ₹ 50,000 to ₹ 1 lakh for a dentist with 5 years

experience

Private

practice

• Could earn around ₹ 50,000 in about 5 years time

Private

practice

• Basic investment – about 5 lakhs• Full set up – about 15 lakhs

What’s the ₹ like?

Maintain a distance of 6 feet between the toilet and where you brush. The air borne particles from the flush can travel up to 6 feet

Colgate first arrived in the market in a jar!

Any idea what the first patented toothbrush looked like?

Did you know?

www.mamc.ac.in www.mciindia.org www.cbse.nic.in www.manipal.edu www.onestepup.in

Websites

Community Dentistry Oral Pathology – Biopsies Oral medicine and diagnosis Pedodontics

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