Veena Naik

Title: Prospect of oral medicine and the pedagogical deficiencies

Abstract:

International descriptions reflect that Oral Medicine is a specialty at the juncture of Medicine and Dentistry. Oral medicine is principally considered as medical specialty but ended up in dentistry, and now suffers an “identity crisis,” bestriding both dentistry and medicine. We discuss the toil faced by the subject and the specialists in India and Internationally in the curriculum, at awareness level and the perseverance to change the consequence. Despite these apprehensions, we are quite passionate about the future. This enthusiasm is balanced by the realization that some impairments lie in our path. These collective signals are a clear wake-up call for our discipline.

Biography:

Dr. Veena studied Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) at SDM College of Dental Sciences (India) and graduated as MDS in 2011 AT Bapuji Dental College & Hospital, Karnataka (India). She then joined Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology in AIMST University, Malaysia in 2014. She obtained the position of an Associate Professor at the AIMST University in 2018. Being many publications under her credit, she completed few forensic tasks and community involvement like Anti-tobacco campaign, Treatment and awareness camps in central jail and Oral Health Awareness Campaign were accomplished in 2005, 2014 -2016.