Serving patients, with orthodontic problems, is the main responsibility of the department, which utilises its research inputs and academic responsibilities. The department is housed with an array of treatment techniques that attends to orthodontic patients of all ages especially starting from the age of 8. The armamentarium of patient care includes removable orthodontic appliances, fixed orthodontic appliances, clear esthetic appliances (Biostar), lingual orthodontic appliances and orthodontic micro implants. The undergraduate students and interns are allotted with the task of attending to patients with primary care and removable orthodontic appliances. The postgraduate programme in the department demands that a minimum of 50 fixed appliance cases are allotted to any postgraduate student in the first year of training. Other cases are taken by the clinical faculty of the department.

Young patients with mixed dentition phase are attended to and monitored for any developing/ developed malocclusion. Children at an early age are screened to prevent and/ or intercept any malocclusion which later on might become difficult to correct. Special instruction and knowledge is imparted to parents and patients regarding harmful effects of persistent oral habits (tongue thrusting, mouth breathing, thumb sucking) and their prevention and interception is given a high priority. Special care is provided for cleft lip and palate children and children with special needs. Apart from adolescents and young adults with malocclusion, patients over 30 years of age are taken care of with multidisciplinary treatment care options involving adjunctive orthodontic treatment, prosthodontic rehabilitation, periodontal therapy and restorative and aesthetic dentistry. Adult patients with eruption anomalies and severe skeletal jaw discrepancies including craniofacial anomalies are treated with combined orthodontic- orthoganthic surgical care.