International Clinical Dental Research Organisation (ICDRO) is a non profit organisation and has been given “Charitable Institution” status by Income Tax Department, Government of India (PN/CIT-1/Regn/12 A(a)/140/2013-14/3596)
Ever since its inception in 2009, ICDRO has been an active scientific body. JICDRO is a scientific journal under the aegis of ICDRO and is now in its 7th year of publication. In 2009 ICDRO organized a national workshop on periodontal medicine & in consecutive succession in 2011, 2012 and 2013, international conferences like ICDRO World Congress were also a part of the scientific activitiy. These congresses have seen the academicians of international repute , across the world , interact with their active partipication. The main goal of ICDRO is on providing “affordable dental care“ to masses in sub-urban and rural population. ICDRO plans to open 25 dental centres in Pune district in order to reach out to the masses. ICDRO also plans to establish ‘ Tobacco De-addiction Centres ’. Objective is to educate, motivate and counsel the common mass about the ill- effects of tobacco consumption on oral and systemic health . Community awareness programmes would also be a part of this initiative.ICDRO is raising donations from individuals ,corporates and government to promote research in areas of oral cancer, periodontal medicine, cleft lip-palate, dental tissue engineering and innovations in dental material science.