The Department of Community & Preventive Dentistry of the Dow International Dental College has a very important role in imparting knowledge, skills, and expertise pertinent to public oriented oral health care and services. The main purposes are:

1. To meet the increasing need and demand for oral health care of the disadvantaged population and the child population.
2. To expand the role of oral health care professionals by teaching, training, guiding, and supervising general health and oral health care teams through active participation.
3. Shaping a responsive educational model for our students to be able to address disparities in oral health through its educational curricula of Community Dentistry that focuses on the current dental advancements.
4. Fostering fundamental and translational research and technology that focuses mainly on social and epidemiological problems in communities through preventive and promotive programs.

The procedures for which the undergraduate students are trained for include: periodic dental examination and screenings, imparting oral health education and behavior change interventions, all preventive procedures such as scaling and root planing, tooth polishing, fluoride applications, pit and fissure sealants; primary clinical procedures such as atraumatic restorative treatment using hand instrumentations in high-risk caries children, and other non-invasive dental procedures that do not require anesthesia, needles and sharp instrumentations both in the dental clinics as well as in the community based field after they have gained theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in the Skill Lab.

The Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry has all the necessary facilities for academics and coordinated patient care such as a well-equipped air-conditioned separate Skill Laboratory, Museum, Seminar Hall, and Small-Group Discussion/ Tutorial Rooms for the BDS Students in 3rd Professional Year. In addition, the College provides other logistic and transportation support to the students when they visit different extra-mural communities, schools and institutes for community-based research, preventive and promotion programs.

There are enough mobile dental units to be able to carry our primary dental procedures in the communities where is shortage of electrical supply and other disadvantaged communities.