Dental research: The missing block in the dental institutions

The dedicated department can lay down a broad array of research strategies to help understand the fundamental or the basics of a disease and involve a breadth of approaches to support the "best science" including biological mechanistic and interventional studies, behavioral and social sciences, public health research, population-health studies, clinical trials, and community-based studies. Many of these disciplines are just emerging, yet it is critical that they be woven into ongoing and new research projects. [...]establishing such departments can promise long-term research on variegated issues which today are in their germinal stages.