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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]