Dental College and Hospital, Pune Infrastructure: Library, Gym, Auditorium, Cafeteria & Other Facilities

Ayesha Taneem

Facilities :- 

Library 

The library was established in 1989 as an integral part of the Dental college and hospital. It provides the academic soil for students to thrive on and in turn nourishes and nurtures the professionals of tomorrow by providing the right ambience and necessary in turn conductive to reading and studying. The library has separate section for the under graduate and post graduate students and the teaching staff. The extensive collection of books and journals, National and International is segregated subject wise in different sections. Optimum space utilization with open aisle provides maximum flexibility at minimum cost to meet future changing needs. 

Building

The College is housed in a building of covered area of 2,07,671.44 sq. ft. in an area of 5 acres. The building is not only an architectural beauty but it is functionally well planned.

The distinguishing feature of Dental College and Hospital Pune is undoubtedly unique, spacious, state of the art building with well ventilated, hygienic surroundings, having lot of space for undergraduates and postgraduates. The laboratories (Ceramic, Phantom Head, Oral Implantology and Dental Clinics) are spacious. There is ample space available for all the curricular and extracurricular activities. 

Equipments and clinical material

Dental college has purchased advanced and latest materials and equipments for all branches of dentistry by spending huge amount for its purchase to cater the needs of patients on day to day basis who come for treatments. This also gives exposure to the students to the advanced techniques and materials.. 

Sports  

A central sports ground facility is available for carrying out indoor and outdoor sports activities.  The sports ground is managed and maintained by the college of Physical education.  

The institution has always stressed on the all-round growth of its students. The students are encouraged to participate in the sports activities to enhance the competitive spirit and tolerance - both physical and intellectual.

BVDU Dental college sports committee always encourages sports activities to in cultivate togetherness and competitive spirit among the students. These activities also help them for their development of physical and mental health. Our students actively participate in inter college tournaments as well as represent our university at Ashwamedh and All India Interuniversity tournaments. The committee organizes college sports week in the month of December and January, where students and staff actively participate and enjoy the events. The college has provided indoor sport facilities like table tennis, carrom, chess in our gymkhana. Our students use the university sports complex for outdoor games throughout the year. This year our college won intercollegiate Badminton tournament and also stood runners up for Basketball at national level invitational tournament “Dunkyard” and AFMC tournament. Dr. Madhura Kad , PG student, received best player of the tournament award at Dunkyard tournament.  

Hostels               

University offers comprehensive hostel facilities within the university campus.  We appreciate that most of our students are moving away from home for the first time, so we strive to make the transition as soon as possible by offering comfortable and safe hostels within the campus.  University offers separate hostel facilities for boys and girls with wardens in each hostel to supervise day to day management.  Each hostel operates its own mess providing hygienic and nutritious meals thrice a day , as a part of the hostel fare, with varied menu that caters to a range of taste buds.  All the rooms have been designed to provide adequate moving space and ample air and light. 

Laboratories And Equipments

State of the art dental clinics with sophisticated infrastructure equipped with endosonics, cryosurgery, ultrasonic scalers, orthopantomography, digital radiography, computerized cephalometrics, laser fluorescence caries detectors as well as several other recent paraphernalia in each dental specialty. 

Excellent laboratory facilities are provided especially Phantom head labs, equipped with 100 dental work stations for pre-clinical training, simulating dental treatment.  A well equipped Central Laboratory is available for Crown and Bridge fabrication to gain technical skills in dentistry. 

For undergraduate training programmes, the college has well furnished spacious lecture halls equipped with OHP and LCD facilities.