BDS · MDS
Programmes
Bachelor of Dental Surgery, Master of Dental Surgery
- I BDS
- II BDS
- III BDS
- Final BDS
- Internship
- MDS 1
- MDS 2
- MDS 3
At a glance
Undergraduate
BDS Bachelor of Dental Surgery
- Duration
- 4 years + 1-year compulsory rotatory internship
- Entrance
- NEET-UG
- Seats
- 100 a year
Postgraduate
MDS Master of Dental Surgery
- Duration
- 3 years
- Entrance
- NEET-MDS
- Specialties
- 7
Getting a seat
- Write NEETNEET-UG for BDS, NEET-MDS for MDS.
- Register for counsellingWith the university or the national counselling body, on their own website.
- Choose KIDSKamineni Institute of Dental Sciences, Narketpally, in your options.
- Report to the collegeWith your original certificates, by the date on your allotment.
BDS, year by year
I BDS
How the body and the teeth are built: anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, dental anatomy and dental materials.
Classrooms, dissection hall, preclinical labs
II BDS
Disease and medicines: pathology, microbiology and pharmacology, with preclinical work on models in prosthodontics and conservative dentistry.
Classrooms, preclinical labs
III BDS
General medicine, general surgery and oral pathology, and the first patients, seen under supervision in the dental clinics.
Medical hospital wards, dental clinics
Final BDS
The clinical subjects: treating patients in every dental department, from fillings and extractions to dentures and braces.
Clinics, all nine departments
Internship
A year of compulsory rotation through every department, and outreach camps in the villages around Narketpally.
Hospital, outreach camps
The bars are a rough picture of each year, not a timetable.
MDS: 7 specialties
- 1 Prosthodontics and Crown & Bridge Replacing missing teeth: crowns, bridges, dentures and implants. 6 seats
- 2 Periodontology The gums and the bone that hold the teeth. 6 seats
- 3 Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Surgery of the mouth, jaws and face, from extractions to fractures. 6 seats
- 4 Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics Saving teeth: fillings, root canal treatment, microscope work. 2 seats
- 5 Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics Straightening teeth and guiding the growth of the jaws. 3 seats
- 6 Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry Dental care for children, and stopping problems before they start. 2 seats
- 7 Oral Medicine and Radiology Diagnosis and imaging: every new patient starts here. 2 seats
27 seats a year in all · Approved intake (NDC)