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Dental student hangs herself
Dental student hangs self: A 20-year-old dental student committed suicide by hanging herself at college hostel here on Saturday. A case has been registered in this regard at Kolar police station.
Primary investigations reveal that the girl had failed in two subjects in first year which might have forced her to take the extreme step.
The victim Puja Gupta was a native of Mumbai and was studying at a private dental college in city. TOI NEWS

Consumer FORUM asks dentist to pay 2 Lakh to patient
A dentist couple from Mulund has been ordered by the district consumer forum to pay Rs 2.10 lakh to a patient for a denture procedure gone wrong. The patient, an elderly Mulund resident, had approached the forum as the doctors were insisting the lump in her mouth after the surgery was due to cancer, and not any negligence on their part.
Drs Jayesh and Anita Dubey, who run Multispeciality Dental Services Private Limited in Mulund (East) were asked to pay Rs 1.7 lakh towards the cost of treatment for Saroj Cheda, Rs 25,000 for mental agony caused, and Rs 15,000 towards cost of litigation. FULL STORY ……DNA NEWS 

Australia CALLING – NOT REALLY
Foreign dentists flood Australia, locals FIGHT
THE Abbott government is allowing overseas dentists to flood the local market while university graduates struggle to secure adequate work, dentists claim.
Describing the situation as “criminal’’, the Australian Dental Association attacked the government....FULL STORY

Dentist can NOW issue death CERTIFICATE
Ludhiana, June 16–Now, dental surgeons have been authorised to give death certificates. Dr Vikas Jindal, member of the DCI from Punjab, said the council wanted that the dental surgeons should be permitted to issue death certificates if a patient died during the procedure.
“The government has given its nod and now dentists can issue death certificates,” he said. He said sometimes they attended to accident victims with a tooth injury and death could occur in that case or sometimes it could be due to some infection.
Retirement AGE MAY be Raised for dental teachers…
Another issue concerning the dentistry which was discussed during the recently held DCI meeting was to extend the retirement age of dental teachers from 65 to 70NEWSLINK

DCI drama ? moratorium on New Dental colleges- 25000 Dentists/yr, most of it is Kachra ?
DCI on Saturday demanded a moratorium on starting new private colleges while citing “ample number” of dentists in society and the acute shortage of trained faculty in existing colleges as the main reasons.
Dr Mazumdar, the president said that the combined intake of students across 302 colleges has reached 25,000. He stated private colleges were not on par with Govt colleges.
WHY then DCI increased intake in Kerala colleges ? NEWSLINK

Dental education to be revamped- DCI
President said evidence-based education system (EBES) was best-suited for redesigning the dental education programme. The DCI president announced that Suman Vidyapeeth will work as a nodal centre for imparting such education to all 302 dental colleges in the country. The delegates from countries like Canada, the USA and Switzerland presented their papers at the two-day conference concluding today. MORE HERE

Dentist shot Dead in J & K
A senior police official told GNS that the dentist Shabir Ahmad Naikoo who received three bullets after three masked gunmen opened indiscriminate fire inside a house of Congress activist Khazir Mohammad Naikoo and leaving his son Nazir Ahmad dead at Seeloo Sopore.
The injured dentist was immediately shifted to Sub-district hospital Sopore in critical conditions where from he was shifted to SKIMS Soura, the official said, adding that today morning the dentist passed away. NEWSLINK

PMT in UP cancelled, Leak of question PAPER
The Uttar Pradesh Combined Premedical Test-2014 (UPCPMT-2014), which was scheduled for Sunday, was cancelled minutes before the the exam was to start after it was found that the paper had been leaked in Ghaziabad, a senior official said.
The exam will now be held one month later around on July 20.  UPCPMT-2014, conducted by the King George’s Medical University ..MORE HERE .…CM orders PROBE

Dental clinic CHAIN Job offer, apply now or go for TIE UP
Focus Dental is the international chain of dental clinics which will be opening 50 dental clinics in 300 km of Delhi Ncr in first phase of its growth plans.
They are  looking for strategic tie up/ partnership and Even interested candidates can apply for job opportunities. Call up on any of the mob numbers given here  +91-9810061862    +91-9810061863  to discus. SEE FULL PROFILE

WHY- Runners have poor oral health
In the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, a team of German dental researchers report significantly higher tooth erosion in triathletes than in non-athletes. In addition, the researchers found that athletes who engaged in more weekly training had more cavities than those who trained less. NEWSLINK

CALL for SUGAR Tax
A campaign group has called on the UK government to introduce a “sugar tax” to help curb childhood obesity.
Action on Sugar has produced a seven-point plan to discourage children from consuming foods and soft drinks with high levels of added sugar. BBC NEWS

Periodontitis in coronary heart disease patients: Strong association between bleeding on probing..
This study assessed the possible association between specific clinical parameters of periodontitis and systemic biomarkers of coronary heart disease risk in coronary heart disease patients with periodontitis. In coronary heart disease patients with periodontitis, BOP is strongly associated with systemic CRP levels; this association possibly reflects the potential significance of the local periodontal inflammatory burden for systemic inflammation. LINK

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