Fired by the zeal to create world class institutions, Bapuji Dental College was founded in the year 1979 by Mr. Shamanur Shivashankarappa. Guided by great visionaries in Indian Dentistry, the college has grown in leaps and bounds and recently celebrated its silver jubilee in 2004. The college is now headed by Dr. K Sadashiva Shetty, one of India’s leading face in orthodontics. He is the transformational guardian in making the college from being one among India’s best dental colleges to that of Asia’s.
If the infrastructure is the body of an institution, the teaching staff form the soul for it. Bapuji is blessed with a sound soul and body. Armed with many years of teaching and research experience, Bapuji possesses one of the brilliant set of faculty in India.
This college has been one of the most vibrant and dynamic institutions in the field of dental education. It has nurtured hundreds of dentists to reach the zenith of their profession. From time immemorial, India has been a Mecca of knowledge, education and enlightenment. Bapuji Dental College, since its inception in 1979, has made an immense contribution to this legacy. The state of the art institute offers students the best possible clinical education complemented by opportunities in research and community service.
Bapuji Dental College boasts one of the finest lab facilities to impart liberal clinically oriented teaching on par with the best. The freshers are trained in the sophisticated phantom head labs, fitted with 100 dental workstations for pre-clinical training simulating dental treatment. The college is also well equipped with a Ceramic Lab for crown and bridge fabrication to gain technical skills in dentistry.
The college also prides itself with a huge library set with good ventilation and illumination - a perfect setting for avid readers. The library is well equipped with modern facilities and resources in the form of CD-ROM, online databases, video cassettes, books, journals, back volumes of journals, theses, WHO publications etc. It’s a one stop resource center for the student from all forms references of to printouts and to binding.
Bapuji Dental College is one among the very few Indian colleges doing research projects for US based International companies like GC International, 3M ESPE(USA), Biohorizons(USA) and the like. Various research projects have been carried out in all the specialities of dentistry and published in respected peer-reviewed journals.
With its grand infrastructure, excellent faculty and mature guidance, Bapuji Dental College is a reminiscence of ancient India’s educational centers of excellence. It’s the ultimate destination in India for a student in search of dental educational excellence.