Department of Prosthodontics – Goa Dental College & Hospital

Department of Prosthodontics and Crown & Bridge

Prosthodontics and Crown & Bridge provide undergraduate and postgraduate instruction, patient care, and conduct research covering the many disciplines making up the broad specialty of prosthodontics. These disciplines include: fixed prosthodontics, removable prosthodontics, implant prosthodontics, maxillofacial prosthetics, and occlusion. The Department deals with the replacement of missing teeth and/ or associated structures of the head-face-neck region with artificial substitutes (prostheses). The department has an average of 500 patients visiting every month. It provides a wide range of treatment modalities to them, which include complete dentures, acrylic and cast partial dentures, over dentures, immediate dentures, crowns, fixed partial dentures, laminate veneers, full mouth rehabilitation, and implant-supported prostheses.

The Department of Prosthodontics and Crown & Bridge, in association with various Departments of Goa Medical College (Neurosurgery, Plastic Surgery, Surgery, Ophthalmology, and ENT), carries out complex rehabilitations of patients suffering from various developmental and acquired defects.