Mushrooming Dental Colleges

Reports reveal unplanned rapid rise in number of dental colleges in country which may create problems for new passing-out youngsters to find proper professional placements in future. Undoubtedly people need better medical facilities with adequate number of specialists in different fields of profession. But care must also be taken that fresh graduates in dental surgery must not be frustrated to remain unemployed after spending so much mind and money on their studies.

Permission to open private Dental colleges has become a lucrative business with students paying money in tune of millions for admission. Politicians play big role in managing permission for new dental-colleges which have mandatory requirement of approval by Dental Council. But it is shocking to know that many private colleges manage ‘floating staff’ with all fabricated employment-record to ‘satisfy’ visiting teams from Dental Council. Even though members of the inspecting-team may know the reality, yet it is helpless to challenge such irregularities.

It can be implied that students getting degrees from such ill-equipped colleges cannot be expected to become good dental-surgeons in practice, and may rather prove to be a liability on the society!