Dr.Anil Kohli launches Silver Jubilee celebration of A B Shetty Dental College

Dr.Anil Kohli launches Silver Jubilee celebration of A B Shetty Dental College

Mangalore Today

Mangalore, Feb.6: “Over the past twenty five years, A B Shetty Dental college has come to being one of the top ranking institutions in the country” said Brig. Dr. Anil Kohli, President, Dental Council of India. “The cost of education today is too high comparing to those days when there were very few institutions in the country to seek admission. Today there are too many colleges but very few are well equipped and well maintained” he added.

 

The dental council has taken many steps to maintain the standards of the Dental education in the country. The IDA has decided not to recognize new dental colleges for the next five years. However, the colleges already existing are expected to provide good quality education or face derecognition, he warned.

Speaking after laying the foundation for the silver jubilee building, Mr. Kohli said, “I am very glad to be part of this special occasion. I could not refuse Vishal Hegde when he came to invite me. He is so humble and polite as his father. I am sure he will carry forward the legacy”

 

 

 

 

 

In his presidential address, Mr. Vinay Hegde, Chancellor of Nitte University and President of Nitte Education Trust said, “we give absolute freedom to the head of the institutions to administer and develop conducive environment for quality education. On this day, I appreciate Dr. Sridhar Shetty and his team for their dedication and sincere efforts in building this institution par excellence. I would say, the credit goes to all of them”. Refering to Mr. Kohli’s remark on Vishal Hegde, he said.“ My father, Justice K.S. Hegde and my mother inculcated human values in our family. I am doing my turn to mine children” “It is our duty to prepare the future generation”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. N. Shridhar Shetty, former Dean, Mr. Anand Rao, former administration officer, Mr. Prabhakar and Mr. Babu Achar were honoured on th occasion.

Dr. Rajendra Prased, Principal and Dean of A B Shetty Institute of Dental Science welcomed the gathering. Dr. Krishna Nayak. Dean Academics, spoke on the past twenty five years journey of the institution. Dr. Shantharam Shetty, Vice Chancellor of Nitte University also spoke on the occasion.

 

 

A year long celebrations are planned commemorating the Silver jubilee of A.B. Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Science, the premier Dental Science College in Mangalore

The College was named after the late Health Minister in the Madras Presidency and subsequently in the Mysore state, who was also a well-known leader of the community Sri Attavara Balaksrishna Shetty. With the BDS programme the college started functioning from the ‘Amritostava Building’ of the Bunts Hostel, Mangalore and came to be known as A.B. Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Science.

Those were the days when only Institution with Medical colleges started dental college, Nitte Education Trust became the first Institution to start a stand- alone dental college. A.B Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental science has also reputation of being the second such college in the country.

By the time the first batch of students came to internship program, peripheral health centres were established for their training. Thus from the beginning itself the college made a focused effort in providing good teaching and intensive training.

In 1989 MDS program was commenced. When the government of Karnataka established the Central Health University RGUHS, the college came under its affiliation in 1997. Consistently and continuously the infrastructure and training facilities were upgraded to provide an excellent academic environment for the students which is evident from the ranks secured and academic recognition achieved by the students, which is hallmark of the college. The college has rare honour of being as one of the first colleges in Asia to be recognized as training centre for the MFDS and MRCS programs of the Royal college of Surgeons, Edinburgh and England respectively. The institution has signed a MOU with Okayama University Dental School, Japan for research and staff Exchange. The college is also the academic affiliate of the Oman Dental College of the Sultanate of Oman government.

Consequent to the formation of Nitte University in 2008, by Nette Education Trust, the college became its first constituent college. Today, the college runs the BDS program with an intake of 100, MDS in 8 specializartions with an in rake of 50, certificate course in oral implantology in collaboration with Frankfurt University, Germany and Fellowship in Craniofacial Surgery. The Nitte Meenakshi institute of craniofacial Surgery which is part of college specializes in the treatment of cleft and palate anomalies and complex craniofacial deformities. In association with Cleft Children International, Zurich, Swidzerland and Smile Train Organization, USA the institute conducts 750 cleft operations annually at free of cost. On addition, weekly camps, one day denture camp, school oral health and hygiene programs are also regular feature.

With the kind of infrastructure, faculty, learning and training resources, the college has come to occupy a place of pride in the area of dental education in the country and has been rated as the 12th best Dental college of India.