DENTAL DIPLOMA COURSES AFTER BDS – A Review
What are the various types of Dental Diploma courses after BDS? How to choose a Diploma course? How much the dental diploma costs? All the answers in this article.
GOVERNMENT DENTAL COURSES/IGNOU
DCI has approved many state dental councils to run approved dental diploma courses. There are courses in lasers, endodontics, and orthodontics. Such courses are mainly ongoing in Tamilnadu and Karnataka.
IGNOU also used to provide post-graduate dental diploma courses in Endodontics and Implantology.(Both BDS & MDS were eligible) But IGNOU has discontinued the dental diploma for the year 2013. The last known admission to the course was on 2012. Post that there is no further notification regarding the courses.
In the latest 2016-17 official curriculum, there are no Dental Diploma courses.
The official health science courses link of IGNOU also does not list the dental diploma courses.
If you do want to have a look at the official postgraduate dental diploma courses that was released in the year 2012, you can have a look here. (Please note that this brochure was for the year 2012 and is not applicable at present. This is just for your information purpose.
In the year 2012, we had published a detailed article covering the IGNOU dental diploma courses.
But as stated in the lines before, the course stands discontinued at present (since 2012)
In any case, if you do want to check out how was the course curriculum of the Dental Diploma courses in Endodontics & Implantology, then you can have a look at the article below.
IGNOU DENTAL DIPLOMA DEGREE | DENTALORG.COM
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WHATS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PRIVATE AND GOVT. DIPLOMA COURSES
Basic differences are as follows:
- Govt. diploma courses are more affordable price wise.
- Govt. diploma courses are DCI approved. Colleges in Tamilnadu and Karnataka give employment to diploma degree holders as staff in colleges.(depending on the vacancies available)
- Private diploma degrees are just to enhance your clinical skills. They are not approved by DCI as such to work in some college. While working only your BDS or MDS degree will be taken into consideration.
- N.B. Please Note: Though some colleges do give employment to govt. Diploma degree holders, but they are not entitled to get regular promotions as a MDS staff. There is also management diploma courses in Karnataka (approved by DCI & Karnataka Dental Board). They are cheaper than MDS but still can be costly for many.
DIPLOMA COURSES AFTER BDS?
IS IT WORTH THE TIME & MONEY?
1) MDS is still the preferred option: Yes, till today the most common option that emerges out after BDS is MDS. But as we all know, it is not so easy getting MDS or even after MDS.
2) But NOT every dentist can do MDS: Getting a Govt. college is tough as it needs a lot of hard work and seats are few. So there is no guarantee that you will definitely get a seat. The option of private colleges in not feasible for everyone as its a costly affair. Moreover, whether private or govt, to get an MDS seat you will need to qualify NEET exams.(which is one of the toughest exams)
3) Opening a dental practice is the only option: So in that case, the next most obvious option remains is to open a clinic/private dental practice. But a new dentist again faced with problems. Today it is the world of specialty treatment. Patients are becoming more and more aware of the various dental treatment modalities – Courtesy Google. They are expecting specialist doctors. This many times dents the confidence of a young dentist.
4) Extremely high competition among dentists: There is also the issue of extreme competition in professional dentist sector. This competition is pushing dentists to acquire more skills to be different from the other dentist. There is a demand to know about newer treatment modalities like dental implants, lasers etc. So to move ahead in the market of dentistry, any dentist, must have the knowledge of these recent advances. But what if he/she is not able to MDS for some reason. Then how can he/she learn more about these modern treatments!
5) The Utility of Diploma Courses: So in such a case DIPLOMA courses are very useful. Diploma courses are short term courses of usually one or two-year duration that teaches a BDS pass-out the skills that will definitely enhance the clinical prospects of the student. At the same time, he/she also learns the newer techniques of Implants, Lasers, Endodontics, Orthodontics that is of immense help in clinical practice.
Till now we had a serious discussion about the types and utility of dental diploma cases. I sincerely hope that you now a better insight into the courses. More importantly, I hope you will now be able to choose the course much better than before.
We will end this article, with a list of some of the diploma courses and the institutions providing it. You are requested not to consider, this list is the ultimate one. Also, the colleges and courses keep changing. So, do your own serious research before deciding to join any particular course.
COLLEGES PROVIDING DIPLOMA CORSES
Points to note:
- The diploma courses that are provided in the dental colleges(approved by DCI) are approved by DCI. Without DCI approval no official Dental College can run any PG or Dental Diploma courses.
- You will need to see the official DCI site or inquire to know which colleges are providing DCI approved PG Diploma courses. Before joining any diploma course it is your duty to make it sure.
- Also, remember that depending on DCI inspection the PG diploma courses can be disapproved (in the case of the institution is not able to fulfill the DCI criteria). So, as a dentist, it is your look out to make sure that the college is still approved to run the dental diploma courses. So, no one list can be definitive as the status keeps updating.
With this, we reach the end of the article. The aim of this article is to provide the young BDS graduates a basic idea on the Dental Diploma courses. So, depending on your choice, you can go for Private Diploma courses or DCI approved dental courses in a college.We sincerely hope that after reading this article you will be able to make a correct choice for yourself.
We earnestly hope that after reading this article you will be able to make a correct choice for yourself.
Disclaimer: The courses status might have changed in the period this article was written. So, in the case of more information – refer the official websites for the latest status.
