Department of General Dental Pratice and Oral & Maxillofacial Imaging

The General Dental Practice Unit was approved by the Ministry of Education on 28^th Mac 1994 when the Bachelor of Dental Surgery four-year curriculum was extended to a five-year period. The structure of teaching general dental practice included tutorials, seminars, clinical sessions and visits to the private practice in the fifth year of undergraduate study. The component of oral diagnosis which as undertaken by this unit and was conducted in the third, fourth and fifth year.

The subject of oral and maxillofacial imaging was taught from the year 1999 by the Oral Radiology Division. Students are taught the subjects on radiation physics in the 2^nd year, techniques of taking radiographs in the 3^rd year and the interpretation of radiographs in the fourth year. In the initial period the subject was examined as a part of the General Dental Practice paper.  However, in 2001 the Oral Radiology examination was combined with the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery paper for purposes of examining the fourth year students.

On 24^th October 2001, the Curriculum Committee of the faculty proposed that the General Dental Practice Unit and the Oral Radiology Division to be amalgamated as one department. This proposal was received favorably and the proposal paper was submitted to the Ministry of Higher Education. Subsequently the approval to establish the new Department of General Dental Practice and Oral & Maxillofacial Imaging was granted on 28^th July 2004.  The new department was entrusted to improve the administration, academic endeavors and also the research contributions in areas of general dental practice, oral diagnosis and oral & maxillofacial imaging.  In the near future there will be efforts to develop postgraduate courses in these specialties too.

Department Mission

 a)     To provide an excellent practice area and facilities for an holistic, integratedapproach in the general dental  treatment of patients.

b)      To develop a state-of-art imaging centre for the faculty, thereby improving all the various   specialties.

c)      Ensuring students have a life-long desire to improve one self academically.

Department Vision 

To be an establishment which will provide excellent educational programmers services and research in General Dental Practice, Oral Diagnosis and Oral & Maxillofacial Imaging. 

Institute of Postgraduate Studies

Contact  

Department Head

Department of  General Dental Practice and Oral & Maxillofacial Imaging

Faculty of Dentistry

University of  Malaya 

50603 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.

Tel :0379674895  Fax :0379674575

E-mail : phrabha@um.edu.my