10,197 CONFIDENT SMILES AND COUNTING- because you can afford to smile fully again
This is a story of recollection of the days of how it all started. You might think that starting a practice and marketing to hiring staff and finances is all that’s required for a course to run smoothly. It means you have arrived. But its not that simple.
No one wants a slipping denture, the tantrums of removing and putting the dentures back again and again, or the nervousness of smiling infront of their inlaws due to ill fitting bridges. There was a need for transformation, need for something that felt good, looked good; something that gave confidence, but was also affordable to general public. There was need for implant treatment that wasn’t expensive . that’s when it all started, in the august of year 2012, Saveetha dental college, with a single operatory , no cbct equipment , no physio dispenser , limited staff and instruments, placed their very first implant. and what happened next? Within three months, 100 students placed 300 implants in a single operatory. Unbelievalble, right ??? but this was just a start, Something great was still yet to come. Sdc was on a mission to provide affordable implant treatment to everyone.
In 2013, implantology in sdc reached new heights, with 15 dental chairs, 2 operatories and cbct equipment of institute, department of implantology began its course. But that wasn’t just it, Australian program for implantology also laid its roots in the very same year with 1 seat /year to 15 seats /year to 45 seats/year, now. Shortly, in 2015, SDC launched 1 year fellowship and 2 years full term p.g program, m.sc implantology. A few years ago, implantology was taught as an additional subject, it gradually evolved into being, sole and soul solution to replacing missing teeth in SDC. In 2017, department of implantology , extended to a new implant unit, with 16 dental chairs, 6 operatories, with modern amenities, and software and then ; and then, to 30 dental chairs and 6 operatories in 2021.
In 2012, there was this dream of placing one implant which turned into reality of successfully finishing 10,000 implants on 7th sept 2021. Saveetha Dental College and Hospital becomes first hospital in the country to have completed 10000 implant surgeries, with average success rate of 99.6% which is highest in the country, a milestone in the history of implantology department .