The Dental institutes and the field of Dentistry in India are dealing with many issues for decades. The whole dental community is fighting at both the internal and external level. There are external issues like unemployment, unequal distribution of resources, non-economic factors, ignorance regarding oral health care and many more. Some of the internal factors include very few government colleges as compared to a number of private colleges especially BDS colleges in India, high fees at private institutes, domicile policy under NEET examination in some states in India.
Despite these issues, the dental treatments have improved and thus people have started giving their oral health more time and importance. As per the Indian Medical Device Market, the Indian Dental market has witnessed a growth of 5 percent in the last 5 years. The overall growth of the Asian Dental market is 10 percent, which is the highest growth and is more than the United States.
Such growth has helped the industry to fight with its current issues and overcome the hurdles in order to provide better opportunities to the future generation. As the demand for dentistry will increase, it will balance out the over-supply of dentists in India. But to keep up and create further demand, the dental institutes will also have to upgrade their courses and equipment which is bad news for government dental colleges as they will have to spend more.
Last year, the government of Uttar Pradesh had to intervene and curb the fixed fees for both medical and dental colleges. The fees for BDS was fixed between Rs 1.37 lakh and Rs 3.65 lakh and this was made applicable to 3 academic sessions i.e. till 2020. The BDS colleges in India were asking for Rs 9-13 lakh for the course before. So it was a relief for many students in Uttar Pradesh. Except for few colleges in Greater Noida and Lucknow, all dental colleges have reduced their course fee.
BDS course fee in many cities of Uttar Pradesh like Meerut, Bareilly, Moradabad, Mathura, Gorakhpur, Barabanki, Aligarh, and Azamgarh has been reduced. BDS at Kalka Dental college in Meerut costs Rs3.75 lakh including hostel and mess fees, BDS at Chandra Dental college in Barabanki is Rs 1.67 lakh, and BDS at Institute of Dental Science in Bareilly costs Rs 3.03 lakh per year.
Such radical changes and the introduction of new policies by the government along with the technological and research development will harness the dental sector in India.
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