Oral Medicine and Radiology department of Government Dental College and Hospital, Nagpur, is the specialty of Dentistry that deals with the diagnosis, preliminary investigations and medical management of oral and dental diseases, oral manifestations of systemic diseases and dental management of medically compromised patients.
Oral & Maxillofacial Radiology part of the subject deals with the conventional and advanced imaging of craniofacial, dental and adjacent structures, its interpretation and diagnosis.
Since the inception of the Institute in 1965, Oral Medicine and Radiology department had been instrumental in providing services to the central India population visiting the OPD in large numbers on daily bases. The department underwent development, not only in terms of
infrastructure and faculty recruitment, but also in terms of getting well-equipped with state-of- the-art facilities including Intraoral and Extraoral Dental X-ray units, Radiovisiography (RVG), Digital Panoramic imaging machine, VELSCOPE, Cone Beam Computed Tomography(CBCT) and Ultrasonography (USG) machines.
The Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology has a significant diversity in curricular responsibility which is reflected in our day to day teaching and learning sessions. Students learn through lectures which are supplemented with clinical posting and demonstrations, seminars, videos and clinical exposures. Students at the department are consistently provided with opportunities to upgrade their clinical knowledge and develop skills that make them best Dental diagnostician, qualified for higher education or develop them as a strong clinician. By imparting innovative educational facilities, the department strives to promote and motivate greater number of students to carry out research.

Undergraduate & Postgraduate students are trained in this discipline to diagnose and provide medicinal management to various pathologies involving maxillofacial areas like oral mucosal diseases, salivary gland disorders, precancerous and cancerous lesions, complications of cancer therapy, orofacial pain disorders including temporomandibular disorders (TMD) and neurosensory and motor disorders. Students are also trained to provide dental care for patients with complicating medical disease and manage oral complications of systemic illnesses. In the context of investigative procedures, apart from craniofacial imaging by conventional imaging, the department also utilizes advanced imaging procedure mainly CBCT for pathologies involving hard tissue and USG for pathologies involving soft tissues. Additionally the department caters to the investigative needs of precancerous lesions with the utility of Vx Enhanced Oral Assessment System (VELSCOPE) for cancer detection apart from routine clinical and staining procedures. Apart from these the department also specializes and trains in tobacco cessation and orofacial pain management.
The department’s strength is our esteemed faculties. The teaching faculties, apart from being engaged in exploring all possible teaching – learning methods, are actively engaged in research with papers published in National/International conference proceedings/Journals every year. They have underwent faculty development programmes regularly, specialized training in Cone Beam Computed Tomography, TMDs management and Oral Cancer Diagnosis. Various CDE programmes and workshops are being conducted every year to benefit students and faculties. With the capability of handling more than 200 patients daily, the department works to deliver the highest quality of patients care. Showing compassion, respect and dignity towards those who serve, helps promote team work and accountability among the departmental staff, while earning the respect of other peers in the dental care.
We seek to achieve service excellence in providing quality dental care services to patients and aspire to seek standards for excellence in inculcating professional skills in students.