Dr. Vabitha Shetty is a Professor in the Department of Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry in A.B. Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences, Mangalore, Karnataka, India. She has 16 years of post graduate teaching experience and 22 years of active clinical practice. She has numerous national and international publications to her credit.

V Shetty has special interest in the oral health and problems of children with visual impairement and has over 4 international publications in this field. She has also devised a novel music based brushing programme for children with visual impairement.