How will the new era signify dental practice of occupational safety, dental health education and its challenges? At present, the dental profession is confronted by an outburstof technology, population explosion, problems in dental health care delivery systems. As a result, dentists find it increasingly difficult to meet their responsibilities to patients and society. In such conditions, reaffirming the fundamental and universal principles and values of dental professionalism, which remain principles to be pursued by all oral physicians becomes important. This paper reviews dental education in India and challenges in oral health owing to issues such as lack of awareness, lack of oral hygiene, quackery etc.

Key Words: Dental education, curriculum, history, India, infrastructure, street dentistry, quackery