Welcome to The Faculty of Dentistry

The Department of Oral Hygiene is primarily responsible for development and delivery of the Degree in Oral Health (BOH). This programme aims to produce graduates competent to promote the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities in private practice and public health environments. To this end students are exposed to a range of learning opportunities in individual patient care as well as community based service learning.

The Department of Paediatric Dentistry conducts an undergraduate and a postgraduate programme to enable students to manage the child dental patient. The postgraduate programmes consist of a postgraduate diploma in dentistry part-time and a masters programme full time.

The Department of Restorative Dentistry conducts both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes on the entire scope of Restorative and Prosthetic dentistry. Disciplines include Basic Conservative Dentistry, Dental Materials, Endodontics, Fixed and Removable Prosthodontics and Implantology. The postgraduate program consists of a postgraduate diploma, a clinical master’s programme, a research masters programme as well as a master’s specialist training programme

The Community Oral Health Department provides undergraduate- as well as postgraduate programmes which enable students to make a diagnosis of a population’s oral health problems, establish the causes and effects of the problems and plan effective interventions through interdisciplinary co-operation and organized efforts of society.

The Cluster of Diagnostic Sciences includes the departments of: Oral Medicine and Periodontology Diagnostics and Radiology Maxillofacial and Oral Pathology and Forensic Sciences Oral Biology

Maxillo-Facial & Oral Surgery and Anaesthesiology &Sedation consists of the two departments namely “Maxillo-Facial and Oral Surgery” and ”Anaesthesiology and Sedation”.