Pediatrics & Orthodontics

About Us

The Pediatrics school which is one of the two sections of this department is involved in the dental health care of a specefic section of the community; Since children have a delicate temper, and learningn early oral health care will provide a life long  guarantee of their oral and dental health thus increasing the overall community standards, the students learn the responsibility as well as dental treatments and patient management in this school. Another area of activities in which the pediatrics school is primarlity involved in is the dental public health; Which is mainly the early evalutaion of dental health of the younger traget groups in kindergarten, and the education of the oral and dental health care to them and their guardian.    As for the Orthodontics school, students learn the relation of the teeth to jaws and the skeletal bones and their developmental relations and proportions. They learn to differentiate malocclusions and their specefic treatmens. In this department the learners are given the chance to start on models in a preclinical setting and then they move on to clinical treatmens.

Missions

The members of this department follow a systematic education program provided by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Islamic Republic of Iran and the students will be recognized as certified Doctors of Dental Surgery  

- To improve a supportive learning

- To enhance curriculum with extra curricular activities

- To increase teaching collaborations within the department

- To enrich the departmental teaching resources

- To promote educational methods

- To improve Dental Publications  

• Developing a dental public health department
• Acquiring and developing a talented, academic workforce
• Discovering innovative ways in enhancing dental public health
• Collaborating with developed worldwide universities

Facilities

Structure of education

The undergraduate course of dentistry is carried out in six years and students will begin their sepecific dental courses further into their education with this department, since the specificitiesof the dental care in this area requires complete training in other areas. through out the years of education the students will accomplish many different courses with this department. The courses are a mixture of Pre-clinical, Practical and Theorethical lessons, which are in term evaluated with practical and written exams. The education finishes with the Master thesis. 

Faculty Members