Clinic areas and other units

The modern state of the art Dental (Teaching Hospital) Peradeniya has been constructed and equipped for student learning, delivery of patient care and research collaborations with the commissioning of the New Dental Faculty building complex in 1998 through JICA ODA grant-aid provided directly to the Ministry of Higher Education.

The Dental Hospital occupying the Block B of the building complex contains Academic Departments/Divisions of Oral Medicine, Dental Radiology, Oral & Amxillofacial Surgery, Restorative Dentistry, Prosthetic Dentistry, Periodontology, Paedodontics, Orthodontics, Community Dentistry, Oral Pathology and General Pathology. The clinical dentistry disciplines have well equipped clinical floor areas for Student practice and outdoor/indoor patient areas for comprehensive management. All clinical floor areas for student practice are being manned by university dental nursing staff and supporting staff.

Heads of Clinical Departments and Divisions perform the administrative function where Senior Academic staff will function as consultants in the professorial units of the dental hospital. Their services include undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, research activities and patient management.

The Dean of Faculty of Dental Sciences with relevant Heads of Departments and Divisions function in close cooperation with the Deputy Hospital Director and Director, Peradeniya Teaching Hospital for the management of the Dental Hospital.

All first visit patients seeking treatment at the dental hospital will be screened at the daignostic clinic conducted on weekday 7.30am at the Room 4-Oral Medicine Clinic and cases suitable for teaching wll be directed towards university clinics and rest will be treated at the routine OPD clinics which serve patients on Saturdays also.
Routine OPD Clinics:
Room 1
Room 2
Room 5
Room 6

Patients directed for university clinics should get registererd at the reception counter and obtain Patient Record Folders  before proceeding to relevant clnics.
University Clinics:
Room 3 - Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
Room 4 - Oral Medicine
Room 7 - Periodontology
Room 8 - Restorative Dentistry
Room 9 - Prosthetic Dentistry
Room 10 - Paedodontics
Room 11 - Orthodontic

Emergency Services Clinic
(081 239 7259, PABX 7259 )
Emergency services will be maintaine 24hrs and patients requiring indoor treatment would be admitted

Referrals
Patients refreed from other hospitals, ans institutions will also be treated by relevant clinics.