Butcher dentist faces trial for mutilating over 100 patients
He gave me seven or eight shots in my gums. And he pulled out eight teeth in one go!” recalled former patient Sylviane Boulesteix. “After that, I bled for three days..said a patient.
Dr Van Nierop was stripped of his licence in Netherlands, then he landed in this small french town Château-Chinon. Van Nierop was placed under court supervision and banned from leaving France in 2013. Despite the ban, he traveled to Canada in December 2013, but authorities caught up with him three months later. He was first extradited to the Netherlands in September 2014, and then from the Netherlands to France the following January. MORE HERE
Young girl suffers brain damage due to extraction
The family of a little girl who suffered brain damage after being sedated at the dentist plans to sue the dentist who put her under sedation. Four year old girl went to denist to have tooth pulled and now
has to be fed by feeding tube and she s confined to a wheelchair. LINK
Dr Tolani launches Virtudent in USA
Traditional dentistry is usually done at the expense of patients, making them give up their time and steep sums of money to often receive unneeded treatments.
Virtudent puts patients first with its transparent telehealth model. It’s remotely connecting people with dental experts from top universities throughout the U.S., keeping costs low and focusing on preventative dental health rather than over-diagnosis. Virtudent employs tele-health technology to help reduce over-treatment, reduce insurance fraud and increase oral health care access for underserved populations via virtual dental visits….FULL STORY
Lady dentist is housing 130 pets
Dr Tripta Kaur is a dentist by profession and lecturer in a medical college in Visakhapatnam. Dancer and short filmmaker, winner of various national and international beauty-pageants, and an animal lover who provides shelter to around 130 stray animals. she was awarded the ‘Outstanding young person of 2015′ from Vizag by a social organisation – Junior Chamber International (JCI). MORE HERE
Maharashtra’s private medical/dental colleges can’t have own CET-S Court
Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea by the association of Maharashtra’s private medical colleges to be allowed to conduct its own common entrance test (CET) for medical and dental college admissions.
It means students will be admitted to state as well as private colleges on the basis of a single test conducted by the state CET cell. TOI NEWS
MCI in need of complete reformation: Says Parliament panel
MCI is in need of a complete reformation, as corruption and lack of accountability threatens the medical education of the country, if unchecked this will lead to great social, financial and political cost to the country, according to parliamentary standing committee report on health. MORE HERE
All Women Dental center opened by Minister
Telangana health minister Dr C Laxma Reddy inaugurated DentaShine – the first all women dental care centre for women and children on Monday. Zahed Ali Khan, editor-in-chief, Siasat Daily and Pramod Kumar Kedia, chairman, Agrasen Bank were the guests of honour. DentaShine is a start up concept by Dr Kulsum Mirza, which will have all women specialists and will be an exclusive dental care centre for women and children. NEWSLINK
Murder of Indian Dentist in USA, Unsolved even after one year
ALBANY, Calif. (KTVU) – It will be one year on Tuesday, March 8th, since a UCSF dental student was killed in her own apartment in Albany.
Randhir Paul’s murder remains unsolved, but her family reached out to KTVU to talk about their search for answers and justice. Relatives say they are in frequent contact with the police, but they’ re frustrated that one year later, no one has been arrested for the crime. MORE HERE
Why British Dentists came to India to save Bears by doing RCT
British vets came to the rescue to operate on 19 rescued ‘dancing bears’ who were at risk of dying as a result of the trauma they’d experienced.
In a first of its kind operation, the endangered sloth bears underwent lifesaving dental surgery at the Wildlife SOS Agra Bear Rescue Facility in India.
The team of dedicated veterinarians from Wildlife SOS in India, with support from International Animal Rescue UK, performed root canal surgeries.
And their action reportedly saved the bears from certain death.NEWSLINK
Why Ortho patients should stay away from Drinks
Many people are not aware that soft drinks — even diet soft drinks, sports and energy drinks, and fruit drinks — contain acids, which can be especially troublesome for people in orthodontic treatment. The American Association of Orthodontists (AAO) strongly advises patients in orthodontic treatment to avoid drinks with low pH levels because the lower the pH level, the more acidic the beverage. ..MORE HERE
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Tooth whitening in only 2 minutes per day without tray
Two minutes a day, thanks to the special accelerator XS 151 contained in the hydrogen peroxide gel, which activates while brushing, and its portability, which means it can be performed anywhere and not exclusively at home, thanks to the new pre-filled brush.MORE HERE
Treating migranes by adjusting jaw
Dentists could play a vital role in treating migraine. In certain patients, it can be treated by adjusting jaw imbalances, says Dr Curtis Westersund from Canada. He is in the country to deliver a lecture series on modern dental problems, including the condition called temporomandibular disorders (TMD), which often goes undetected because the patient never goes to a specialist. He said that an injury to the jaw or muscles on your head and neck can also lead to TMD. According to Dr Curtis, dentures suitably made for the lower jaw can correct the condition. MORE HERE
Cavitation at tip helps better scaling
The formation of tiny bubbles around the head of ultrasonic scalers, used by dentists to remove built-up plaque, is key to the cleaning process of teeth, researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have found.
Scientists from University of Birmingham in the UK observed the bubble formation, or cavitation, of water around the head of the scaler using high speed cameras. NEWSLINK