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Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan Institute of Oral Health Sciences

Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ebad khan Institute of Oral Health Sciences is Karachi’s latest state of the art public sector dental institute that server a large population of Sindh & Balochistan through offering comprehensive dental care of children, adults, elderly at a low affordable cost. We have an excellent faculty, a dedicated staff and latest, state of the art educational facilities.

At DIIOHS the Dental students will be exposed very early to clinical dentistry through our elementary school health programs which takes students to rural & urban localities of the city to examine and educate children about their oral health and place preventive sealants on their teeth. In order to equip students with the real time experience they will work on the phantom heads in state of the art laboratories.

Given the attention paid to our history and current status, the most frequently posed question since assuming the dean’s position in last August has been,: Where are we going from here?” at this early stage, the answer is not yet complete, but the glimpse we have, reveals that the institute on Oral Health Sciences will use the century of experience of Dow Medical College, Civil Hospital & Sindh Medical College to focus our vision of fulfilling our missing with even greater capability in the future. We will use our solid foundation as a springboard to achieved success in the areas of teaching, research and service. We will continue to produce new knowledge and incorporate instructional methods that will prepare the graduates to meet the challengers of a rapidly evolving oral health profession.

This constituent institute of Dow University of Health Sciences, has been named after the present Governor Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan, as a gesture of appreciation for his untiring efforts regarding the establishment of the Dow University. The foundation stone of the institute was late in September 2004.

A 150 years old building, where the first premier campus for the Sindh Medical College was established in 1973 has been completely renovated from inside according to modern standards, where as the external heritage look has been preserved and strengthened. The orange colored terracotta roof top tiles used in this heritage building still show their year of manufacturing as 1865. By virtue of its history it becomes one of the oldest buildings in Pakistan to house the most advanced and state of the Art dental institute.

      • Dental College

      • School of Dental Care Professionals (DCP)

      • Postgraduate Training & Research Center

Main Purpose of establishing this Institute is to:

  1. Increase Human Resources for oral health care

  2. Establishing research centre, in the field of oral health and

  3. Provide excellent oral health Care facilities for the patients.


This Institute has:

  1. The Dental College for BDS degree.

  2. Post graduate training Courses and research.

  3. Dental Technician Courses, offering 2 years diploma, 4 year bachelor and 6 years post graduate Courses, at School of Dental Care professionals (DCP). and

  4. Dental hospital for public.

This Institute also has state of the art Dental College which is capable of providing comprehensive dental treatment mostly free of charge, only the material cost is charged for very expensive treatments. There are eight, out patients departments, namely:

  1. Oral Diagnosis

  2. Oral Radiology

  3. Oral Medicine

  4. Periodontology

  5. Prosthodontics

  6. Crown & Bridge

  7. Orthodontics

  8. Operative Dentistry

The clinical working of DIKIOHS is augmented by good sterilization protocol with latest gadgetry. All departments are provided with materials and equipments for treatment.

Free dental camps were also organized by DIKIOHS for dental check up, tooth extraction, amalgam fillings and scaling of teeth free of charge information leaflets were also distributed. These camps were held for public at NICVD, kidney centre and other areas in the vicinity of DIKIOHS.

More than 30,000 patients have already been treated in this hospital during seventeen months.

This Institute has increased number of highly qualified faculty members un matched in any private or public sector dental college and is the only dental college with maximum highly qualified faculty.

Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PM & DC), has approved the college to train fifty (50) BDS students in each batch.

The first and second year classes of BDS are being conducted.

SEMESTER SYSTEM HAS BEEN INTRODUCED BY DOW UNIVERSITY FROM THIS YEAR STUDENTS ARE BEING PREPARED ACCORDINGLY.

Weekly seminar are scheduled to have presentation from every department on rotation basis. The topics are related to different specialties of dentistry, eg Prosthodontics and Orthodontics etc. These seminars also cover topics of ‘Infection Control in Dentistry’ in which the dental technicians and assistants also participate.

In addition to weekly programs, monthly seminars are also held in which renowned guest speakers from other dental institutions within the country and abroad participate. Dr. S.P. Singh, Assistant Professor orthodontics oral health sciences centre PGIMER – Chandigarh, India spoke on ‘Interceptive orthodontic treatment in mixed dentition’ and ‘Management of Class III malocclusion by combined orthodontic and surgical treatment’.

Workshops on ‘Basic Life Support (BLS)’ are also conducted for BDS students as per schedule of Dow University.

Third annual international symposium of Dow University of Health Sciences had a full day session on dentistry in which the faculty members of DIKIOHS made presentations on various topics. It was well attended by reputable personnel of this profession.

The dental technicians are the back bone of the health care system and there is a dirth of dental technicians not only in Pakistan but also abroad. Countries including USA & UK.

School of Dental Care professionals (DCP) has also been established as a part of Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan Institute of Oral Health Sciences, where these technicians are trained in following two domains:

  1. DENTAL TECHNOLOGY

  2. DENTAL HYGIENE

Seventy five (75) premedical students are studying these Courses after the entrance test and selection on merit Cum choice basis School of Dental Care Professionals (DCP) of Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan Institute of Oral Health Sciences (DIKIOHS).

A team of experts including Mr. Pat Power, Head of international office from Queen Mary’s school of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London visited DIKIOHS. They have agreed to have collaboration of DIKIOHS with Queen Mary’s school for various faculty development and exchange programs including split PhD Programs, joint research projects and training of dental auxiliaries as per international standards.

A Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC) has also been introduced at Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan Institute of Oral Health Sciences (DIKIOHS), DUHS to help the institution in formulating an appropriate syllabus and execute structured teaching program with proper assessment and evaluation under the support and guidance of the Higher Education Commission.

This is the first dental institute of its type to introduce the mentor system to supervise and resolve the problems of students and guide them in proper manner and to solve the perplexity of students. This is an excellent way for proper vigilance of students regarding their studies. Weekly meetings of students are arranged with their respective allocated mentors to discuss studies, and other problems which helps in polishing the student and boost up their energy. Weekly presentation and quizzes have also been arranged with the Head of various Departments (HODs).These meetings and assessments are to refresh the course and prepare them for examinations.

Extra curricular activities refresh and accelerate the student. These are organized on monthly basis. Students have full access to the internet in the digital library to keep pace up with the needs of update.

MDS program has also been launched by the Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan Institute of Oral Health Sciences by the untiring efforts of Vice Chancellor to produce excellent professionals and subject specialist in the Basic Dental Science Subjects. This program is supervised by highly qualified professionals of Pakistan.

Research Projects have also been launched in collaboration with various organizations e.g. Pakistan Steel Mill (PSM) N.E.D, and OJHA to produce good teachers and students. Inshallah DIKIOHS will become centre of excellence for undergraduate and postgraduate students, besides providing high class training to Dental Technologists.

Fellowship training is being provided by the Department of Prosthodontics as it has already been recognized for four years fellowship training by college of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan (CPSP). Soon other clinical departments will also be allowed for fellowship training after inspection.

MASTERS IN DENTAL SURGERY (MDS) have also been started in this institute. There are six semesters based on three years program in BASIC DENTAL SCIENCES to train personnel who wish to enter teaching and research career in dental and Allied Health Sciences.

The DIKIOHS has almost all the discipline of dentistry, basic and clinical dental sciences. Each department is headed by subject specialist for better education and services

 

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