Strict rules have resulted in rejection of 90% proposals to open new dental colleges in the past year. "As many as 110 colleges were not given recognition to run a dental college because of stringent norms. Only 10 were considered and given approval in the year 2012,” said Dr Dibyendu Mazumdar, president, Dental Council of India (DCI). Dr Mazumdar was in the city on Monday to attend college day function at Babu Banarsi Das Institute of Dental Sciences.
He said the DCI recognised only those dental institutes with other medical departments such as ENT, eye, orthopedic and others. "This is to ensure efficient clinical material-patient inflow-in the college,” said Dr Mazumdar. At times, patients who visit eye or ENT or any other department are referred to the dentist
