The value of oral health research to society is enormous. It can offer crucial information on disease trends and risk factors, treatment outcomes or public health actions, functional skills and care patterns. Our institutional approach to research integrity, ethics, standards and protocols is a crucial component of research culture. At FJDC, Institutional Review Board (IRB) was initially established in 2007 for promoting research culture in undergraduate and postgraduate students.
In 2022 the mandate of IRB has been broadened as Institutional Ethical Scientific Review Board (IESRB) of FJDC that functions through its three committees:

• Scientific Review Committee (SRC)
• Institutional Ethical Review Committee (IERC)
• Research Advisory Committee (RAC)