It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Department of Preventive Dentistry in the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. We place high value on quality and impactful training, research, and service delivery. We are a multispecialty department with competent, goal and research-oriented academic members of staff in the field of Oral diagnosis & Oral Radiology, Oral Medicine, Periodontology and Community Dentistry. Our academic staffs participate in quality research and collaborate with other health related disciplines, and participate in local and international conferences on an impressive scale. Our positive research output is evidenced by the large number of publications in peer-reviewed, national and foreign journals.
Most of our departmental offices are located on the Second and Third Floor of the New Dental Block for academic and administrative staff with internet facilities for research and teaching purposes while the clinic facilities are located on the Ground Floor as well as in the Old Dental Block. The department also has a modern Radiographic Facility for digital intraoral and extraoral investigation, an Oral Hygiene Unit and a Primary Oral Health Care Centre at Pakoto, affiliated to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. The department has access to a well-equipped Faculty Library; Lecture Hall [100-capacity on the first floor], Seminar Room [50-capacity on the third floor] in the New Dental Block.
Currently, the department trains undergraduate dental students in Oral Diagnosis, Oral Radiology, Oral Medicine, Periodontology and Community Dentistry which are achieved through lectures, seminars, clinical demonstrations, tutorials, and field trips in the fifth and sixth clinical years of the undergraduate training. The department is also involved in the postgraduate training of Resident Doctors for the Award of the Fellowship of the National Postgraduate Medical College and the West African College of Surgeons in the affiliated specialties in the department. Furthermore, we are involved in the training of Dental Nursing Diploma Programme with the hospital. The department organizes Outreach Mobile Dental Services on a regular basis approximating once every month to surrounding communities and various locations across Lagos State.
The department of Preventive Dentistry was created at the inception of the Dental School in 1966. Initially, Child Dental Health was part of the department till August 1, 1980 when it broke out of the department. Presently, the Department is composed of the following units: Oral Diagnosis, Oral Radiology & Oral Medicine, Periodontology and Community Dentistry (with affiliated Oral Hygiene sub-unit).
Past Heads of Department include Prof. Ana, Prof. F. Okoisor, Prof. S. Jeboda, Prof. K. Savage, Prof. G. Agbelusi, Prof. P. O. Ayanbadejo, Prof. O. O. Sofola, Prof O. G. Uti, and Dr K. Umeizudike.