KARACHI: The Department of Community Dentistry, Baqai Dental College (BDC), Baqai Medical University (BMU), recently organised an Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART) workshop for second-year BDS students.
Prof. Dr Asghar Ali Shigri, Head of Community Dentistry Department, BMU, Dr Raza Abbas Abidi, Dr Samreen Shafqat and Dr Mahwish Bano, supervised the workshop.
Dr Asghar gave an introductory lecture on ART, clearly explained its procedure and steps, and gave a brief intro on the instruments and the materials.
The department had arranged all the necessary instruments and materials, which were state of the art, for the students to understand the procedure competently. After the demonstration was over, the students divided into three groups were allotted a phantom head station. They then performed the ART on a prepared tooth on the phantom heads.
