Merit student looses MDS seat
The High Court was hearing a plea filed by Dr Pratik Nagdeve who kept waiting for a better course in the counseling rounds but lost out on the stream of his choice. Claiming that he was higher on the merit list, Nagdeve urged the court to order another dentist to swap seats with him. MORE HERE
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MSc in Oral Implantology in Germany
The Master’s Degree Program ‘Master of Oral Implantology’ (MOI) has been introduced at the J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. The program was created in order to offer advanced academic training in the field of oral implantology to dentists from both Germany and abroad.
The MOI is a 2-year modular graduate degree program. As a part-time study program the students will be travelling to Frankfurt 4 times, each time for 7-11 days. The fifth time the students will be in Frankfurt for presenting their thesis. Admission is going on for 2014 batch HERE
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Illegal dentists a cheap option in Canada
The space was clean and tidy and Galyna Shevchenko said it was the best option for her to have her bridgework done.
Turning down $5,000 from her son to go to a licensed dentist, Shevchenko decided to pay $1,000 to have the work done underground — more specifically in the basement of a house somewhere in the Lower Mainland.
“He was absolutely wonderful,” she said. “Everything is nice and clean and perfect, and the equipment was perfect.” NEWSLINK
Orthodontist does it on a bike
Arnob Gupta who is an orthodontist, did Ladakh to Kanyakumari in 78 hours on a two-wheeler.
Three weeks ago, this Mumbai-based dentist did it on his favourite bike. Starting from Leh police station on September 16, he reached the finishing point at Kanyakumari on September 19, covering 3850 km with just an eight-hour sleep on the way. FULL STORY
Indian orthodontic Soc. proposes to expel 3 members for teaching fixed ortho to GPs, final decision will be taken by Gen body to be held at Ahmadabad next month.
UK dentist lived royal life, cons £1.5m from NHS
The conwoman splashed out on designer clothes and jewellery, luxury mansions and £1,000-a-night suites in the Caribbean and America.
Her granddaughters were even sent to a posh private school with the loot from what has been described as one of the biggest frauds in the history of the NHS. MORE HERE
Resection and reconstruction- Jaw surgeries get 3 D
The development of computer-assisted 3-D planning, along with computer-fabricated surgical splints and cutting jigs, now allows for a prosthetically driven, occlusally based rehabilitation in combination with unprecedented precision in surgical reconstruction of form and function. Often, we can now work backward from the desired dental rehabilitation outcome in designing a microvascular free fibula flap used to reconstruct the maxilla or mandible, as well as to plan the appropriate position for the placement of osseointegrated implants. MORE HERE
Periodontally integrated implants: Reality or fiction?
The periodontal ligament (PDL) is the natural connection between the tooth root, the alveolar bone and the gingiva. It has several bio-mechanical characteristics that osseo-integrated implants do not have. For example, its flexibility provides a damping effect which protects the enamel from occlusal shocks. Furthermore, the PDL helps to avoid overloading by distributing the masticatory pressure over groups of teeth.
Knowledge in cell biology and tissue engineering techniques is showing rapid development, and the possibility of using periodontally integrated implants could become a clinical reality within the next ten years....MORE HERE
ONLY One in five visit the dentist annually in UAE
Almost half of people in the UAE wait until they have toothache before visiting the dentist, a new survey of oral health habits has found.
The data also showed that while tooth decay affects 80 per cent of the population, only one in five visit the dentist once a year. MORE HERE
MCI election process to get started
The elected body of the Medical Council of India (MCI) is all set to make a comeback.
Three years after an interim arrangement of the Board of Governors (BoG) was made to run the council, after its former president was allegedly caught taking bribe, the autonomy of the MCI will be restored.
It is learnt that the Union health minister has approved the notification for Constitution of the council, giving a go ahead to start the election process. The notification to this effect will be issued shortly. MORE HERE
Pancreatic Cancer Could Be Detected In Saliva
Pancreatic cancer is notoriously deadly, in large part because it’s so rarely detected at early stages before it has spread beyond the pancreas. But researchers from the School of Dentistry at the University of California, Los Angeles, have found a potential new way to more easily detect pancreatic cancer: analyzing saliva.
The findings, published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, show that it’s possible to detect biomarkers for prostate cancer in saliva of mice with the cancer. MORE HERE
SC orders video recording of clinical trials
Supreme Court on Monday ordered the government to video record clinical trials of five new drugs, making it tougher for multinationals to shirk responsibility when testing of their patented medicine reacts adversely on patients. MORE HERE
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