What an MDS (Orthodontics) means on a doctor's profile
What MDS (Orthodontics) is, who awards it, what it qualifies a doctor to do, and how many doctors on this site hold it.
The MDS in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics is the three-year postgraduate dental degree in the alignment of teeth and jaws: braces, aligners and the correction of bite. Its holder is an orthodontist. Any dentist may fit braces; an orthodontist has trained for three further years in nothing else, and the MDS on the profile is what tells you which you are seeing. It is the most common MDS branch on this site.
MDS (Orthodontics) is one branch of the MDS — the Master of Dental Surgery page covers the degree itself: its length, its entry examination, and how it sits beside the other postgraduate routes. Everything there applies here; this page is about what this branch trains for and what its holders do.
How to check whether a dentist holds an MDS (Orthodontics)
Dental qualifications are recognised by the National Dental Commission — the Dental Council of India until 19 March 2026 — and the Indian Dentists Register records the qualification each state dental council registered. Search the dentist there, and confirm the college was recognised for the course; the awarding university can verify the certificate itself. On this site a dental qualification is marked as supplied until a person has checked it, because the automated worker reads only the NMC's medical register.
60 doctors record an MDS (Orthodontics)
None of them has the qualification checked against the awarding body yet. All are recorded as supplied. Counts are read from the live database and refresh hourly.
Branches as written on profiles
| Branch | Doctors |
|---|---|
| Orthodontics | 56 |
Specialities they practise
Where they practise
Questions people ask
- Is an MDS (Orthodontics) a recognised qualification in India?
- Yes, when awarded by an institution recognised for it. The National Dental Commission maintains the list of recognised qualifications and of the institutions permitted to award each; an MDS (Orthodontics) from a college that was not recognised for the course in that year is not a recognised qualification, and a registering body can refuse to enter it on the register.
- Does MDS (Orthodontics) make a doctor a specialist?
- Yes. MDS (Orthodontics) is a recognised postgraduate qualification, and its holder is a specialist in that branch in the sense the National Dental Commission uses. The speciality page on this site lists the doctors who practise it, with the qualification each one records and whether it has been checked.
Every profile lists its qualifications as supplied and says which of them have been checked against the awarding body and when. Where none has, the profile says so.
General information about medical qualifications in India, checked against the sources listed on 25 Sep 2026. Not advice about your situation. Errors can be reported through the corrections process.