Thai Moogambigai Dental College and Hospital, Chennai

Thai Moogambigai Dental College and Hospital–TMDCH was started in the year 1991, is one of the top most dental college in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. This constituent college is tied to the Dental Council of India (DCI) and it has a number of programmes in the delivery of dental education. The TMDCH is located in a cognate 8. 13 acres in Golden George Nagar, Mugappair with 161 committed professionals of faculty.

The institute has 9 courses at 2 levels of degrees of focus on different aspect of dentistry. As one of the co-educational institutions in the country, TMDCH admits both boys and girls with quality approved facilities and comfortable learning environment. Moogambigai Dental College and Hospital has vowed to make ensure that student get best amenities for their education needs and development.

TMDCH provides separate hostel facilities for boys and girls with Mess facilities providing purity, quality food fictions both vegetarian non-vegetarian. It has its health centre where students get first aid services to enhance their wellbeing on the campus. It has a central library with a collection of books in dentistry and basic medical sciences exceeding 11,937 and over 100 national/international journals.

Moreover, there are departmental libraries where each student has exposure to the most updated latest edition of textbooks prescribed by the Dental Council of India. Student also gain from internet connection, xerox and scanning services as well.

The college boasts of the facilities which are provided in the sporting disciplines thereby promoting healthy activity amongst the students in the college as well as in their learning process. TMDCH also offers good Information technology support laboratory and well equipped laboratory, Nine major department of dentistry including dental hospital of 330 operation chair is also within the campus.

Thai Moogambigai Dental College and Hospital offers a total of 9 courses and these are the undergraduate and post graduate programmes. The BDS is the flagship programme offered as a full time programme with an approved intake capacity of one hundred. intake. At postgraduate level, the college awards different programmes of Master of Dental Surgery (MDS) which takes 3 years each.

These specific courses are Oral Medicine and Radiology , Oral an Maxillofacial Surgery, Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Prosthodontics, Periodontology, Paedodontics and Preventive Dentistry , and Oral Pathology. The specific number of postgraduate course intake differs and ranges from 2 to 6 seats for specialisations.

The entrance process of Thai Moogambigai Dental College and Hospital is very competitive, and the selection process is highly based on merit. For the BDS programme, candidates must fulfil the criteria set for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) DGHS. Before joining MDS programmes, the candidates have to take an admission through the DGHS-PG Counseling process.

For admissions to the undergraduate course, NEET scores are considered while for admission into the postgraduate course NEET MDS scores are considered. As much as details concerning the scholarship are kept discrete, the college relieves its self of the responsibility of supporting worthy students in their pursuit of dental education.

This commitment to excellence in Dental education has ensured TMDCH produces high facilitating dental education success alumni.