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M.D.S. (Oral Medicine)
Master of Dental Surgery in Oral Medicine

Duration:	3 Years
Level:	Post Graduation
Type:	Degree
Eligibility:	B.D.S.

M.D.S. Oral Medicine or Master of Dental Surgery in Oral Medicine is a post graduate Dentistry course. Oral Medicine deals with the study, diagnosis and Medical management of Oral and Oro-facial diseases. It emphasizes the concept of systemic diseases in role of oral sepsis and oral manifestations of systemic diseases with an objective of maintaining proper oral health for general health. Oral diagnosis is the art of identifying the diseases, defects dysfunction deformities by scientific methods. Radiology is included in this specialty and it is the study of radiation and its uses in taking radiographs for oral and or facial diseases. The interpretation of these radiographs helps in proper diagnosis. The course is career orienting in nature that provides many jobs in different fields.

M.D.S. Oral Medicine Course Eligibility

Bachelor of Dental Surgery (B.D.S.) with minimum 50% marks.
Some of the very reputed universities and institutes conduct entrance examination to get admission to the degree course.

M.D.S. Oral Medicine Syllabus

The following are study related subjects:-

Sr. No.	Subjects of Study
1	Applied Basic Sciences : Applied Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Pathology and Pharmacology
2	Oral and Maxillofacial Radiography
3	Oral Medicine, therapeutics and laboratory investigations
4	Essay

M.D.S. Oral Medicine Colleges

M.D.S. Oral Medicine Course Suitability

Course is suitable for those who want to obtain a basic and advanced education in Oral Medicine for an improved understanding of all dental and maxillofacial diseases and increased skills in its management can go for it.
They should be known of all activities appropriate to general dental practice involving the prevention, diagnosis & treatment of all Dental & Maxillofacial diseases.
Program aims to train the students ardently to use basic diagnostic procedures and techniques useful in recognizing the disease of the oral and paraoral tissues of local and constitutional origin and their medical management.
They should have the ability to speak to, hear and observe patients and coherently summarize a patient's condition and management plan, verbally and in writing.

How is M.D.S. Oral Medicine Course Beneficial?

The course gives training to candidates to acquire adequate knowledge, necessary skills attitudes required for appropriate diagnosis, investigation and management of patients.
It is beneficial for further studies such as Ph.D. etc. as the degree course gives good and solid base for them after it.
Candidates can join government organizations like Public Health Foundation of India or other government and private-owned dental hospitals.
Candidates with interest towards teaching profession can look for jobs as lecturers in government/ private dental colleges.

M.D.S. Oral Medicine Job Types