About the Department

DEPARTMENT OF ORAL PATHOLOGY & MICROBIOLOGY

The Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology comprises a broad range of activities including didactic lectures, clinical course and microscopic experience to under-graduate dental students, one didactic course (Dental Anatomy and Oral Histology) to post graduate students. The Faculty members have advanced graduate training, aiding student leadership in research and education. Oral Pathology develops dental student’s knowledge and skill in comprehensive patient evaluation and diagnosis in treatment planning. The curriculum is well integrated with other departments helping the students to have holistic approach towards oral diseases.

Location– First Floor, Room No-103.

Scope

Oral pathology is that part of pathology and a branch of dentistry concerned with the scientific study of the causes and effects of oral disease and understanding of which are essential for diagnosis and for the development of rational treatment and preventive programmes.
This branch of dentistry is a confluence of basic sciences and clinical dentistry and covers hematology, biochemistry, immunology, serology, microbiology, oncology, histopathology and cytopathology.
There are number of cases reported annually ranging from infectious diseases to tumors to cysts. The students are trained and sharpen their research skills, strengthen their basic concepts by applications in clinical subjects like Endodontics, Prosthodontics, Oral Surgery as well as Oral Medicine and Radiology. Oral diagnosis is based on sound knowledge of oral pathology and is essential for good clinical practice.
Patient services

The following services are provided:
• Complete Hemogram
• Cytology
• Histopathology
• Special stains as needed
• Oral Cancer Detection (Sampoorna Nidaan)

Highlights:
• Sampoorna Nidaan- A dedicated centre for Oral Pre-cancer & Cancer detection
• Fellowship in Forensic Odontology-The Department offers this program under the umbrella of People’s University.
• Spacious undergraduate labs and state of the art instruments and equipments.
• Well Designed Museum.
• Ample number of slides and teaching material.

PUBLICATION

The faculty have articles (approximately 60) published in various journals of national and international repute.

EVENTS

National Oral Pathologists Day is celebrated every year on 25 February.

Head of Department

B.D.S, M.D.S.
Professor and Head
Oral Pathology & Microbiology

Publication Details  –

Publications :53
Books :01
Books Chapter :–
Patents :01

Ph. D Thesis Supervised

Awarded / Completed :–
Ongoing:05

Postgraduate Thesis Supervised

Completed / Awarded :02
Ongoing:–
Achievements :04
Conferences / Seminars /
Workshops Attended :		102
Resource Person / Guest Lectures :02

Identifiers

Official Address-
Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, People’s Dental Academy, People’s University.

Dr Anish Gupta has done his graduation and post-graduation from the prestigious Government Dental College & Hospital, Mumbai in the year 1999 & 2005 respectively. He has done his Fellowship in Forensic Odontology from the Indian Board of Forensic Odontology in the year 2019 and Fellowship in Academy of General education from Manipal, Karnataka in the year 2021.

Dr Anish Gupta has a keen interest in teaching and learning. His accomplishments in this area have led him to design various e-resources (website, YouTube channels, Wikipedia, mobile apps, etc.

He has hand-held undergraduate students to design their own YouTube channel (PDA Dental Carving- https://www.youtube.com/@PDADentalCarving.

The thrust areas include Oral cancer, Odontogenic Tumors.

Publications-

Dr Anish has over 50 articles published which are indexed in pubmed, scopus and web of science in journals of national & International repute.

Qualifications–

  • BDS (Government Dental College, University of Mumbai (1999),
  • MDS (Government Dental College, University of Mumbai (2005),
  • Fellow of IBFO (Indian Association of Forensic Odontology 2019),
  • FAGE (Academy of General Education, Manipal, Karnataka 2021)

Other qualifications-

  • Certificate course from University of Pennsylvania titled “The Oral cavity: Portal to health and Disease.
  • Completed the ARPIT Course Advancement Scheme (CAS) promotion ICT in Teacher Education.

Experience- More than 17 years

Achievements:

  • Dr Anish Gupta has been awarded Innovative Professor of the Year by Indain Glory Awards in the year 2021
  • He has been awarded Innovative Dentist of the Year by Famdent Excellence in Dentistry awards in the year 2022.
  • He has over a dozen Copyrights and Patents to his credit (intellectual Property Rights) that include topics covering almost all the disciplines of dentistry.

Affiliation with university (Other Positions held/ Responsibilities)-

  • Chairman, Board of Studies, Faculty of Dentistry (Second consecutive term)
  • Chairman, Waste Disposal Committee, People’s University
  • Member, IQAC, People’s University.
  • PhD supervisor- currently 4 students.
  • Chairman, Examination Committee, People’s Dental Academy.
  • Member, Anti-ragging committee, People’s Dental Academy
  • Member, Anti-ragging Squad, People’s Dental Academy
  • Executive Committee Member, Indian Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathologists (Fifth Term)