Sexual exploitation at Dental council of India
Its a great shame, what can you expect..Govt of India has to write to DCI reg …See attached letter, to get a copy of video clip of the real action in DCI office, send email to gurudental@yahoo.com also mention your whatsapp mob number in the email. Click on image below to enlarge
Delhi dentist fined 1.15 Lakh, Maulana college indicted, DCI asked to act
Forum in July 31, 2015 judgment, held Dr Priya Balani guilty of negligence and ordered her to pay Rs1,15,000 as compensation to Meena Parihar. This amount would carry 9% interest if payment was not made within 45 days.
The forum indicted the Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences for ignoring medical data and brazenly shielding the delinquent dentist. It passed strictures against the medical fraternity which had given a false report in an explicit attempt to misguide the forum, terming its conduct as unprofessional. Forum felt that unskilled dentists ought to be barred from practice by the DCI or suspended and ordered that a copy of its order be sent to the Prez DCI to initiate action against Dr Priya Balani, and the doctors of the Maulana Azad ...TOI NEWS
Anti ragging App soon
Students of higher education institutes in the country will soon have a dedicated mobile app to serve as a ‘panic button’ during ragging incidents — the University Grants Commission (UGC) has asked the Anti-Ragging Monitoring Agency, managed and maintained by the Aman Satya Kachroo Trust, to develop an app for students and guardians caught in campus ‘bullying’…MORE HERE
NEW PGI approved
Union ministry of health and family welfare cleared decks on Friday, paving way for Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (BMHRC) to become a full-fledged PGI..NEWSLINK
Dental implants are NOT for Ever
Dental implants – though expensive – are not forever, according to Dr. Keren Shemtov-Yona, who did a master’s thesis on the subject at Haifa’s Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Rambam Medical Center. Most implants, she found, develop microscopic cracks and defects over the years.
In one experiment, they collected hundreds of implanted teeth at four dental clinics around the country that had to be removed due to the receding of the jawbone. The artificial teeth and their anchors looked whole, but 62 percent were found under an electronic scanner to have cracks and other defects. MORE HERE
Patient dies during demo surgery at AIIMS-by Japanese surgeon
The death of a patient who was operated upon by a Japanese surgeon as part of a live surgery workshop at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi last week has rekindled a debate on the ethics of organizing such workshops and the rights of patients on whom the procedures are carried out. TOINEWS
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Patient gets 8.5 Lakh compensation for failed implants
Retired motor-sales director, Philip Long, 65, from Bedford, accepted £8,500 after two failed implants fitted by dentist Dr Spyridon Galatas at the Luton Dental Centre in 2010 left him with years of problems and having to undergo further surgery, a replacement implant, crowns and bone grafting to build up bone loss in his jaw. NEWSLINK
Braces versus Invisalign®: gingival parameters and patients’ satisfaction
Conclusion from this German study
Patients treated with Invisalign® have a better periodontal health and greater satisfaction during orthodontic treatment than patients treated with Fixed orthodontic appliances (FOA). Very cleverly they have not talked about the tooth movement efficiency and duration/cost of treatment..FULL PAPER
Dental surgery brings a smile back to 17-year-girl
Sadhana suffers from a rare disease called Papillon Lefevre Syndrome, which leads to progressive bone loss around the teeth, and eventually, teeth loss. Sadhana was diagnosed with PLS at the age of five. When she was 10 years old, her permanent teeth had grown, but by the time she was 15, she had lost all of them.
According to R. Gunaseelan, Oral and Maxillo Facial surgeon, and Managing Director, Rajan Dental Institute, this is a rare syndrome that affects one person in a million. For Sadhana, the team had to anchor her teeth to her cheekbone (zygoma), since she did not have enough bone in her jaw for a regular implant. LINK