BDS from Saveetha Dental College And Hospital, Chennai : An Overview

Saveetha Dental College Facilities

Saveetha Dental College provides hostel facilities to the students and has separate hostels for girls and boys. Students can avail the facilities of  sports facilities, etc. Some other facilities are a gymnasium, auditorium, library, cafeteria, transport facilities, parking facilities and many more.

• Library

11,000 square feet air conditioned library with 165 seats and AV hall. The library has over 6500 books and 137 international and 79 national journals. There are 1605 dissertations available in our library. Our library is OPAC compliant with institutional access to Wiley online portal and Science Direct. We also have unique journal management system that ensures easy access to all back volumes. The library has 30 computers and entire campus has Wi-fi with smart controller to facilitate learning outside the walls. all our departments are furnished with extensive museums where students have displayed their creative skills in the form of static and dynamic models.

• Hostel

Hostel can house 500 students. Our four season ultra luxurious hostel is an amazing facility that would be hard to come by in most universities all over the world. It provides an at home environment for the student. They enjoy every luxury from air-condition, refrigerators, washing machine and cookeries et

Special features of our hostel

• Spacious building.
• Enriched and healthy food facility.
• Incessant water and electricity facility.

• Hospital & Academic Block

The College has a Hospital Block and an Academic Block. The Hospital Block houses the 9 dental departments with 269 dental chairs, adequate pre-clinical laboratories, clinical areas, patient waiting areas and seminar rooms with state of the art equipment’s. The Institution has an exclusive engineering section with highly qualified engineers and adequate support staff to supervise and maintain the infrastructure and other equipments of the Institution.

Budgetary allocation is made annually for maintenance and up gradation of infrastructure. A well-structured system (comprising Hospital Committee/ IQAC and HOD’s) is in place for deciding the real-time infrastructural requirements and their timely implementation. Phased renovation and upgradation of all the 9 departments have been carried out in the last two years. A class room complex with four ICT enabled class rooms that include facilities like smart boards and Visualizers have been made available.

• Clinics

Our Clinics are equipped with over 550 electronic Kavo dental chairs that exceeds the requirement of 332. 80% of dental chairs are Kavo chairs from Germany. All our clinic are air-conditioned to provide an efficient working condition. Every student has an uninterrupted working area yet closely monitored by the faculties across all the dental specialties in every clinic. What more a patient needs minimal waiting time, consultation by all the specialist which enhances the treatment provided. 

• Labs

All the basic sciences department and the oral pathology department has exclusive laboratories for themselves which latest equipments. Also the preclinical laboratory is designed to be a conducive environment wherein they have their allotted phantom heads to work. We also have an exclusive 10.000 sq.ft animal house with CO2 incubator, surgical theatre etc..There are 3 major operation theatres where we perform over around 550 surgeries every year. We also have a teaching surgical microscope. 

• Lecture Halls

Air-conditioned class rooms with smart board with touch on cloud systems where the writing on the board get traced on the iPad and students can also write on a independent layer. All these lectures are available to the students through out their course for them to go back to the lecture any time any day across years.

• Gym

A multigym facility with all the modern equipments like electromagnetic Tread-mill etc.available for all the students in the campus.

• Transport & Security

• Cafeteria

Food is an important component for anybody and our students have 7 cafeteria within the campus and are provide with smart cards. Ours is the first institution to introduce an alacarte based smart mess. Students can choose anywhere across these places to swap and have their hearts content. They serve everything possible from pastries to biriyani.

• Seminar Hall

Institution has a separate seminar hall for all the speciality department with a capacity of 40 students. They are also air-conditioned and have smart boards. Here is where their oratorial skill is horned. They have their seminars, journal discussions and other academic discussion in these hall with their faculty.

• Auditorium

A 1200 seater air-conditioned giant convention center with a 70 feet arena. Any speaker on stage will be able visualise the audience in the entire hall and vice versa. There is AV aids, power back up,  dinning area for the same capacity, greens room and what not to be a convention center of international standards.

• Research Facilities

major thrust areas of research namely Oral cancer, Material science, Molecular biology which resulted in 5 centre of excellence, Dental Research Cell, Oral Cancer Centre, Implant Tessellation Centre and Microendodontic Centre. Our basic medical sciences department do a lot of research in their respective fields related to dentistry in these centres using the above mentioned facilities and equipments. We do allow external scholars to work in our research labs, obtain our research expertise,they can stay in our guest house and complete their projects.

• Sports

Academic fitness but also for physical fitness. We have a air-conditioned gymnasia with trainers, both faculty and students can join the gym. We do have a basket ball court and foodball field surrounded by gallery.

• Other Facilities
• Medical
• Computer labs
• Laboratory
• OPD
• Centre for Community Medicine
• Blood Bank
• Maintenance Engineering Department