The Department of Periodontics at the Indira Gandhi Government Dental College (IGGDC) in Jammu has taken proactive steps to promote oral health awareness with its recent Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) campaign themed ‘Say No to Bleeding Gums."

In collaboration with the Indian Society of Periodontology, the 45-day initiative, dubbed ‘A Pink Health Initiative’, commenced on February 1st and concluded on March 20th, 2024. The campaign aimed to instill preventive oral health habits among residents of the capital city of Jammu.

 This workshop and programme involves different stakeholders and ropes them in through Information, Education and Communication mode (IEC) to create awareness about the preventive oral health hygiene. 

Since the 20th march, 2024 will be celebrated as world oral health day at IGGDC, Jammu, in this regard, many awareness camps at schools, Ved ashrams, bal Niketans and SMGS hospital( specifically gynaecology ward) are being conducted to create more awareness, education and motivation among people to maintain the oral hygiene. 

This is an initiative to make youth understand and create awareness about correlation between oral health and systemic diseases and this camp is an endeavour towards the same. This event was initiated by the guidance of worthy principal, IGGDC Jammu, Dr Rakesh k Gupta. 

The organising team from IGGDC Jammu included Dr Manik Sharma, Professor and HOD besides the senior doctors Dr Vineet Kotwal, 

Dr Abhima Kumar, Dr Shipra Sepolia and the Registrars, Dr Jyoti Gupta & Dr Kousain Sehar. Post graduate students, house surgeons, dental hygienists and the enthusiastic interns currently enrolled in the college also participate in the events. 

 As a part of this program, International Women’s day was celebrated on March 08th, 2024 to recognise the significance of women in our society & to inspire them for greater further advancements. The emphasis was laid on the relevance as the Women have an increased sensitivity to the oral health problems due to hormonal changes and it was deemed necessary to make women aware about the symptoms and disorders of Oral health malfunctioning as the women are more prone to high risk of dental and gum.

The event was concluded in the auditorium, Iggdc and prize distribution for different events were distributed among various students for poster-slogan writing/ Nukad natak, reels and rangoli competition.