The department has an undergraduate clinic, postgraduate clinic, operation theatre, Sterilization chamber, Changing room, VIP clinic, Sero-positive patients clinic, Trauma clinic, and a Departmental library.

The department has a two sections, Undergraduate section (126) where UG students, Intern, 1 year PG students and faculty are posted and provides services like diagnosis and tooth extractions and second Postgraduate section(118) where postgraduates, faculty, Interns and clinical assistants are posted and various advance surgical procedures carried out under Local Anaesthesia. We also have two days of modular OT in St.George Hospital which provide the services to patient under general anaesthesia.

The department is equipped with 46 dental chairs. The Undergraduate section has instruments adequate to treat 150 patients on a daily basis. The department is well equipped to handle medical emergencies. It is stocked with emergency drugs, oxygen cylinders, oxygen concentrators, ambu bag, tracheostomy kit etc as well as staff trained to use the same. High pressure steam sterilizers, large autoclaves and fumigation machine are available to maintain asepsis and sterilization. The department provides services for extractions, third molar surgeries, trauma, pathology, implants, temporomandibular joint disorders, OSMF patients, facial symmetry, cleft patients etc. The students are guided by highly experienced staff members who have multiple publications, patents and copyrights to their credit, in carrying out the surgeries.

Tutorials, clinical demonstrations, lectures, and seminars are taken throughout the year to upgrade the clinical skills and knowledge of undergraduate and postgraduate students. The subject is introduced in the third year and the student appears for the final examination in the fourth year. Lectures as per MUHS syllabus. Journals are written by the students carrying a weightage during the final exam.

Advanced machinery in the Department of OMFS, GDC, Mumbai

• Piezo surgery kit
• Basic advanced implantology kit with physio dispenser
• Distraction Osteogenesis system
• Computerized Controlled Local anaesthetic delivery (CCLAD)
• LASER
• Video laryngoscope
• Radiofrequency analyser
• Portable x-ray device

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Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery received an Indian Copyright grant for the work on “Quality Of Life Questionnaire For Patients With Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders” with registration no. L-139603/2023. The authors aimed to develop a modified version of the questionnaire for quality of life in patients with oral potentially malignant disorders that could more suitably evaluate the QoL of patients with OPMDs and could address several domains related to the OPMDs including symptoms related to the disorders and their effects on the patient’s physical and psychological health and carryout counseling for the patients with these conditions in an effective way.

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