The department of Periodontology provides periodontal care to the community, where diseases of the gums and the related soft tissues are diagnosed and treated accordingly. Students are taught the basics of periodontology, learning how to prevent, diagnose and treat periodontal problems of all types. Students are also exposed to a variety of oral problems, and carry out treatment like dental scaling and polishing, deep curettage, root planing and perio surgeries.

The dental students have to undergo teaching and training in overall concepts of medicine and surgery. The curriculum covers in detail the domains having relevance to the practice of dentistry. FJDC gives great importance to this portion of the course which consumes the major portion of the 3rd year, as this is the only opportunity a dentist would have, throughout their career, to study general medicine and general surgery.