SRM Dental College which is regarded as a university now is a part of a forty five year old SRM Group of Educational Institutions which are supported by the Valliammai society. This society stepped in the field of education in the year 1969 with the aim to provide academic services to the people of India and especially to cater to the educational needs of the under privileged societies. This society established the SRM Dental College in the year 1996 with only a hundred students. In the year 2002 the SRM College was declared as deemed University operating under the umbrella of SRM Institute of Science and Technology by the HMRD and UGC. The college offers MDS courses in a wide array of specialties in the field of dentistry which consists of Conservative Dentistry, Periodontics, Pedodontics, Oral & Maxillofacial and other. The college possesses a two hundred bedded inpatient hospital with all the necessary equipments and facilities. It also has an outpatient facility for both general and dental patients. References World Health Organization. (2000). Obesity: Preventing and managing the global epidemic: Report of a WHO consultation (WHO Technical Report Series, No. 894). Geneva: Author. Data retrieved from www.who.int/nutrition/publications/obesity/WHO_TRS_894/en/ on December 6, 2012