Bachelor of dental surgery (BDS) degree is awarded at the successful completion of four years of study and one year of internship to the students as per the old regulations of Dental council of India. According to new regulations, the BDS course comprises of five years with no internship period.

The course comprises didactic lectures, demonstrations, group discussions, seminars, clinical work and conferences.

The aim and objective of the curriculum is to produce a dentist who is socially acceptable and is able to work safely and effectively on patients in diagnosis, prevention and treatment of dental and oral disease.
At present, the institution is running the BDS degree programme under two DCI regulations (old and new)
Old Regulation (Up to the batch of 2007-08)


Attendance during the course (old regulation):

Minimum of 75 % attendance (separately in theory and practical) is mandatory for being eligible for appearing for professional examination held by the university. In case of a subject, for which there is no examination at the end of the academic year, the percentage of attendance shall not be less than 70%.

Exam Pattern (old regulation)

• Each subject will have 200 marks. The distribution of marks is as follows:
• Internal assessment will be calculated on the basis of the average of the 3 sessional exams conducted
  
  

  Examination	Theory	Practical
  University	70	90
  Internal assessment	10	10
  Viva	20
  TOTAL	200	100

• Duration of each written exam is of 3 hours.
• A candidate is declared pass if he/she scores 50% separately in the theory and practical examinations
• Medium of instruction: English