HITKARINI DENTAL COLLEGE & HOSPITAL

The department is well-furnished with instruments and machinery, required for both clinical use as well as outreach camps. It has fully equipped dental chairs, airotors hand pieces, micromotor units, oral prophylaxis instruments including ultrasonic scalars, extraction forceps, filling instruments, prosthetic instruments, amalgamator, pulp tester, light cure unit, autoclaves, sterilizer, needle burner with syringe cutter, overhead projector, LCD projector, digital camera, computer system with laser printer, dental education materials, etc.

The department has established a centralized museum, where informative and educative dental health education material has been displayed. The department also has a tobacco cessation room for counseling tobacco addicts, which is equipped with many models and educational materials.

The department has a Mobile Dental Van with one dental chair with all the attachments and adequate sitting space for 10-15 people, for the purpose of outreach camps. This van is equipped with filling instruments, ultrasonic scalars, airotors, micromotor unit, various dental materials, autoclave, glass bead sterilizer, compressor, metal cabinet, stabilizer, generator, water tank, oxygen cylinder, public address system, TV and CD player, portable X-ray machine, etc. We also have a portable dental chair to provide the best treatment through our outreach programs.

Our department manages two satellite units attached with our institution. These centres and our extensive outreach activities cater to the patients of a large area in and around our district. Local bus service ‘Chalo Bus’ helps people to commute to our main hospital and other centres. The treatment facilities for camp patients are mostly free or at a very nominal charge. Prevention and control of diseases through community approach by organizing free dental check-up and treatment camps for rural, remote and under-privileged areas is the motto of our institution.