Specialising in oral radiology, Dr. Hemant is using 3D printing in dental and medical health care. He claims Pacific Dental College is the only college in Rajasthan that focuses on 3D printing in an oral medicine department, with a separate department for palliative care.

Dr. Hemant Mathur is a Professor in the department of Oral Medicine and Radiology at Pacific Dental College, Udaipur. He has been working in this college for the last 14 years. He had completed his post graduation from the same college.

Dr. Mathur shares that his area of interest is Oral Radiology and he is exclusively working in the field of 3D imaging and printing in dental and medical health care. He claims that Pacific Dental College is the only dental college in Rajasthan which uses 3D printing in its oral medicine department.

The college has a separate department of palliative care in which they exclusively work on oral cancer patients after they have undergone surgery. Dr. Mathur and his team wants to make the quality of life of such patients good. For this purpose, with the help of 3D printers, they are making prosthetic devices to help the patients with their aesthetic and eating habits. They are also utilising 3D printing technology in other fields like full functioning prosthetic hands and the Pacific Dental College has successfully delivered five to six 3D printed prosthetic hands to patients.

Talking about student exposure, Dr. Hemant says they regularly organise medical camps in different parts of the Udaipur and Mewar region. They are treating approx 3000 to 4000 patients every month. He proudly shares that Pacific Dental College is the only college that has the maximum number of OPD patients. He believes that dentistry is an art in which if you are not having patients, you can’t get a good exposure. The students of the college are lucky that they are getting a huge number of patients for their clinical exposures, he says.

Talking about his inspiration behind joining this field, Dr. Mathur says that when he joined dentistry in the year 2000, it was not so much evolved but in today’s world dentistry is converting into digital art. Dentistry is getting so advanced that the treatment is totally painless with the help of digitalisation and it is a good profession to be in.

Dr. Hemant belongs to Alwar, Rajasthan. He earned his BDS degree from Saraswati Dental College, Lucknow. Then he completed his post graduation from Pacific Dental College, Udaipur. After completing his MDS, he also did an MBA in Public Health Policy Making from AIIMS, Jodhpur. He says that course inspired him to explore 3D printing and rehabilitation of patients after surgeries, especially those suffering from oral cancer, which has a high occurrence in India.

He feels proud to be an alumni of this college. Initially, he joined the college as a faculty member at the junior level and today he is working as a Professor in the same department.

When asked about his role models, Dr. Hemant says that his teachers always inspire him. On the other hand, he considers himself as his role model because, after all his struggles, he has been able to reach this point in his profession where he is proudly working in 3D printing for bettering the quality of life of patients.

He believes in the quote ‘Digital Imaging can change the quality of life of the patients’ and it motivates him the most.

Talking about his hardships, Dr. Mathur says that getting admission  to the MDS degree course was one of the big challenges that he has faced. After completing post graduation, he faced many financial obligations before settling down in the field of dentistry. But, with the support of his friends and teachers, he was able to start his CBCT and 3D printing centre and by the grace of God he is doing fantastic in his career.

He advises the new aspirants who want to join the dentistry field that Pacific Dental College is having maximum number of OPD walk-ins in all over Rajasthan and the students are getting a huge exposure due to the high number of cases. He suggests to the students who are planning to join the college or studying here to work hard as much as possible and use available resources in terms of a good faculty and infrastructure.

Dr. Hemant supports Prime Minister Modi’s campaign for “Make in India and Made for India” and believes that Indians possess great minds but lack  proper infrastructure. He advises the young generation to work in the digital domain and make the things that we are importing from other countries locally.