CLINICAL
The clinical campus comprises of two separate buildings facing each other on 100 Foot Road, Azam Town, adjacent to Phase I, Defence Housing Authority. Here the clinical dental teaching and training is undertaken with great enthusiasm and the students are exposed to a large number of cases on a daily basis. The adjoining localities makeup a very healthy catchment area, where the hospital is within easy reach for over two million people. This strategic location together with the excellent reputation, spanning over 29 years of clinical care, make it a top dental training centre in Pakistan.
The other building is the recently developed Azam Town General Hospital, which has been specially geared up for the teaching of general medicine and general surgery to the third professional BDS students. This facility is for the training and teaching of BDS students alone and not to be shared by MBBS students. The exposure to medical and surgical cases is maximized. This unique advantage ensures highest standard of unmatched education, clinical teaching and training.
PERIODONTOLOGY AND ORAL MEDICINE
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.
ORAL PATHOLOGY
These Departments are concerned with the evaluation of patient’s oral health condition. The primary mission of this department is to provide supervised training to the students on the complete history taking of the patient and performing thorough oral and extra oral examination.
GENERAL SURGERY & GENERAL MEDICINE
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.
CONSERVATIVE (OPERATIVE) DENTISTRY
This department of FJDC is the pride of the entire dental community. The department is the hub of knowledge and clinical training. Since the establishment of the college, it has been known to be the strongest restorative department in the country. The faculty of this specialty travel all over the world to share their researches and demonstrate clinical skills.
ORTHODONTICS
The department has a reputation of being dedicated to excellence. The faculty and staff are committed to upholding and enhancing that tradition. The Orthodontics treatment of FJDC attracts patients from all over the city as it is trusted for providing removal and fixed braces and related treatment of international standards on cost to cost basis. Since its inception it has been engaged in teaching, patient care and research..
ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY
The department of oral and maxillofacial surgery at Fatima Jinnah Dental College and Hospital aims at teaching and training students and residents to perfection in this field. This is accomplished by patient care and emergency services.
PROSTHODONTICS
It is one of the major departments in the hospital with large number of patients benefitting from skilled personal and at affordable rates. Within the field of dentistry, considerable significance is attached to dental prosthetics. It includes partial and complete dentures, crowns, bridges, implants and implant related dentures.