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Rajarajeswari Dental College and Hospital
Other name
RRDCH
TypePrivate[1]
Established1992[1]
ChairmanA C Shanmugam [2]
DeanEdwin Devdos
Academic staff
100+
Undergraduates500+
Postgraduates50+
Location,
560060
,
India
CampusUrban
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.rrdch.org

Rajarajeswari Dental College and Hospital or RRDCH as commonly known, is a dental college in India.[3] Affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore;[4] this institution has various accreditations including that of HLAT International, International Accreditation Organization, National Assessment and Accreditation Council and is also awarded ISO 9001:2008 by BSICS and is recognised by Dental Council of India.[1][5]

History[edit | edit source]

In 2014, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, selected RRDCH as the centre in India for part 1 and part 2 of MFDS.[6][7] In 2015, RRDCH installed its own CBCT imaging unit.[8]

Academics[edit | edit source]

Academic programmes[edit | edit source]

Undergraduate courses[edit | edit source]

Post graduate courses[edit | edit source]

  • Oral Medicine and Radiology
  • Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry
  • Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
  • Periodontology
  • Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics
  • Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics
  • Prosthodontics and Crown & Bridge
  • Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
  • Public Health Dentistry

Phd[edit | edit source]

  • Prosthetics and Crown and Bridge
  • Periodontology
  • Orthodontics and Orthodental Orthopedics [11]

Certificate courses[edit | edit source]

Rankings[edit | edit source]

In 2014, the newspaper The Pioneer ranked the institution as one of the top private dental colleges in India.[3]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "DIV Contents". Dciindia.org.in. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  2. ↑ "Management". RRDCH. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Careers in Dentistry" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 February 2015.
  4. ↑ "ACU Members - Asia - Central and South". Archived from the original on 5 August 2018. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  5. ↑ September-2016. "Rajarajeswari Dental College & Hospital in Bangalore-BDS-MDS". Rrdch.org. Retrieved 17 September 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ "MFDS Part 1 - Examination and revision course" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2016.
  7. ↑ "Rajarajeswari group of institutions" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2016.
  8. ↑ "Inauguration of CBCT Unit / CDE Programme | RRDCH".
  9. ↑ "BDS | RRDCH".
  10. ↑ "MDS | RRDCH".
  11. ↑ "PhD | RRDCH".
  12. ↑ "Implantology | RRDCH".

External links[edit | edit source]