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Rashtreeya Sikhshana Samithi Trust was established in the year 1940. Sri. M.C. Shivananda Sharma, a mighty man of miracles came from a small village near Mysore & established a primary school with only 6 students in this city of Bangalore. He approached a number of Philanthropists & merchants & with their donation started building R.V. Institutions. The following institutions are run & managed by the Trust under the able guidance of Sri. M.K. Panduranga Setty, a leading industrialist of Karnataka & also the Rotary International Director, & a team of dedicated Trustees, the trust has been rendering a yeoman service in the field of education. The Philosophy of the Trust is "Excellence in Education and Service to Humanity".
R.V. Dental College was established in the year 1992 first affiliated to Bangalore University & now to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, approved & recognized by Dental Council of India. The R.V. Dental College & Hospital is located in a spacious building & equipped with the latest equipment to treat Dental & Oral cases. The R.V. Dental College has strong faculty in all the branches of Dentistry with experienced staff members in all the faculties.
The college offers Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) course that is of 5 years duration including one year of compulsory rotatory internship.
The department of Pedodontia (Children department) is treated as the best in the country. The institution has taken up massive Community Dental Programme in rural areas. The detail of this is furnished. Our institution is the first to have Mobile Dental Van in Bangalore city. The equipment have been donated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, USA. The objective of this programme is to expose our students to work in rural setup of our country, so that they will be able to work in rural areas after graduation. The institution has also kept in mind the recent advances in the field of Dentistry in other countries & in this direction the institution has arranged a number of CME programmes, Lectures & Workshops by National & International speakers which has enabled our students & faculty to acquaint themselves with the recent advances.
The library of the college is well equipped with books & periodicals, Photocopying, Scanning & Printing facilities. The facility to browse the Internet is also available. Computers have been provided in all the departments. These computers have been interconnected over a LAN (Local Area Network) .
The faculty members of this institution have presented papers in National & International Conferences & also published in journals (Copy enclosed). The institution has completed research projects including one sponsored by UNICEF.
The Trust has planned to build a separate hospital for Oral & Maxillofacial surgery to treat accident cases & other surgical cases like Cleft lip & Cleft palate cases & Oral cancer cases, etc. in a new campus near the existing building. The work is expected to be completed in about one year time.
The Trust has committed to make this institution a model training centre in the field of Community Oral Health Programme, so that, the health workers, professionals from all over the world can utilize the services & interact with local health professionals for the benefit of Humanity.
Oral Medicine Diagnosis & Radiology
Dr. K.S. Nagesh M.D.S.
Professor & HOD
Principal
Dr. Asha R Iyengar M.D.S.
Associate Prof.
Dr. H.M. Hema M.D.S.
Sr. Lecturer
Dr. Vidya B.D.S.
Lecturer
Oral Surgery
Dr. K. Umesh M.D.S.
Professor
Dr. Girish Rao M.D.S.
Assoc. Prof.
Dr. Subhash Rai M.D.S.
Sr. Lecturer
Dr. Srikanth B.D.S.
Lecturer
Oral Pathology
Dr.Praveen G Philip M.D.S.
Asst. Professor
Periodontia
Dr. H.N. Shama Rao M.D.S.
Prof. & HOD
Vice-Principal
Dr. Uttam C Khincha M.D.S.
Asst. Professor
Dr. N. Sridhar M.D.S.
Asst. Professor
Dr. Sudhir S. Patil M.D.S.
Asst. Professor
Dr. B.K. Giri B.D.S.
Lecturer
Dr. Vijay Babu B.D.S.
Lecturer
Conservative Dentistry
Dr. S. Jagdish M.D.S.
Prof. & HOD
Dr. Shashikala M.D.S.
Professor
Dr. H. Murali M.D.S.
Assoc. Prof.
Dr. Deepaknath M.D.S.
Asst. Prof.
Dr Nayana Rai M.D.S.
Sr. Lecturer
Dr. Manjunath B.D.S.
Lecturer
Community Dentistry
Prosthodontics
Dr. N. Kalavathy M.D.S.
Professor
Dr. K.R. Nagaraj M.D.S.
Asst. Prof.
Dr. M.Vasanth Kumar M.D.S.
Asst. Prof.
Dr. S.B. Mohan B.D.S.
Lecturer
Dr. Ranjini B.D.S.
Lecturer
Orthodontia
Dr. M.R. Dinesh M.D.S.
Prof. & HOD
Dr. B.C. Amarnath M.D.S.
Asst. Prof.
Dr. K. Rajashekar M.D.S.
Asst. Prof.
Pedodontia
Dr. N.S. Venkatesh Babu M.D.S.
Prof. & HOD
Dr. A. Anantharaj M.D.S.
Assoc. Prof.
Dr. Srinivas B.D.S.
Lecturer
Anatomy
Dr. Krishna Urs M.S.
Prof. & HOD
Dr. Bhagyalakshmi MBBS, DNB
Lecturer
Dr. Janaki MBBS
Lecturer
Physiology & Biochemistry
Dr. M. Basavaraju MBBS, Ph.D
Prof. & HOD
Dr. G. Subramanyam M.Sc., Ph.D
Prof. & HOD
Mrs. L. Narasimhan M.Sc.
Lecturer
Pharmacology
Dr. K.S. Veena M.D.
Prof. & HOD
Pathology & Microbiology
Dr. T. Prabhu MBBS, M.D.
Prof. & HOD
Dr. Bharathi M.B. M.D.
Lecturer
Dr. Vinitha M. M.Sc.
Lecturer
General Medicine
Dr. D. Rama Rao M.D.
Prof. & HOD
Dr. Raghavendra Rao M.D.
Professor
General Surgery
Dr.Chandrashekar Rao K M.S.
Prof. & HOD
Research Activities
Community Dental Health Programme
Publications
Workshops, Lectures & Training Programmes
Continued Dental Education Programme
Community Dental Health Programme
The institutions emphasis is on public health & epidemiology with massive Community Dental Education Programme. Camps are regularly conducted for the benefit of Rural population, Old age homes, Schools in rural areas & Handicapped persons.
The objectives of this programme are:
Population Covered:
For the Community Dental Health Programme the college has acquired a well Equipped Mobile Dental Van, which is the first of its kind in Bangalore. The equipment for the van were donated by "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints", USA.
Under the Community Dental Health Programme the College has conducted camps & rendered free treatment to patients.
Details of Camps conducted between 27.09.1994 & 31.12.98 under the Community Dental Health Programme:
SL |
Place of Camp |
No. of Camps |
No. of Patients Examined/Treated |
|
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |
Schools &
Colleges Rural Areas Handicapped,Old ageHomes,Orphanage Urban slums Defence organizations & others "SMILE for ALL" Oral Health programme in association with Indian Dental Association & Colgate.(School children & Teachers) Janmabhoomi VIII phase Dental camps Organized by Govt. of Andhra Pradesh Supported by Sai Oral Health Foundation |
54 |
12304 |
|
Total |
337 |
90974 |
1996-1997
1997-1999
Continuing Dental Education Programmes
The R.V. Dental College has arranged many "Continuing Dental Education Programmes/Workshops" between April, 1994 to October 1998 in which the following National & International personalities participated & delivered lectures to faculty, students & faculty members of other dental institutions.
Sl. Year Speaker Topic
01.1996 C.M.E. Programme- Surgical Demonstration of Implant
Dr. Hilt Tatum
Associate Professor, Lille University Medical
College School
Visiting Faculty Member, Harvard & Florida Universities
Dr. Stuarton Jones
United Kingdom
02. 1996 Recent Advances in Dental Materials (Lecture cum AudioVisual programme)
Dr. Gordon Christensen
Prof. of Prosthodontics, Brigham Young University, University
of Utah, USA .
03. 1996 Advances in Oro-maxillofacial diagnosis.Imaging of newer dental materials
Dr. Allan Farman
Professor of Oral Diagnosis & Radiology, School
of Dentistry Kentucky, USA
04. 1996 Oral Radiology
Dr. Taeko, USA.
05. 1996 Cosmetic Dentistry
Dr. Graham Mount University of Adelaide, Australia.
06. 1997 Lecture on Early detection of Oral Cancer
Dr. Nasser Ahmed, Consultant Maxillo-facial & Plastic surgeon, London.
07. 1997 Lecture on AIDS awareness
Dr. Chandramma, Superintendent, Bowring Hospital, Bangalore.
08. 1997 Lecture on "Zygomatic Complex fracture"
Dr. Kiran I Desai, Asst. Prof. ,Dept. of Oral &
Maxillofacial Surgery,
Govt. Dental College, Ahmedabad.
09. 1997 A seminar on the achievements in the field of Biochemistry
Dr. S.P.K. Gupta, Secretary,
National Committee for Dr. Y. Subba Rao Centenary
Celebration
10. 1997 Lecture on Latest Single component dentin bonding system. Organized by 3M Co.
Ms. Janice Pitt, Germany
11. 1998 Lecture
Dr. Nasser N.A., Facial Plastic Surgeon, London.
12. 1998 Lecture
Dr. Pushpa S. Rao, Oral Surgeon. New York, USA
13. 1998 Lecture
Dr. Krishna Shama Rao, Professor Oral & Maxillofacial
Surgery
A.B. Shetty Dental College Mangalore.
Oral Medicine Diagnosis & Radiology
Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics
Orthodontics & Dento-facial Orthopaedics
Prosthodontics & Crown & Bridge
Street address
9th Main, 4th Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore - 560 011. Karnataka.
India.
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