All government medical colleges should get dental labs: HC

MADURAI: The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Monday directed the state's health department set up full-fledged dental laboratories with specialists in all 21 government medical college hospitals in the state by the end of next financial year. The court gave this direction while hearing a public interest litigation relating to shortage of doctors and nurses in government hospitals. When the case came up for hearing before the division bench of Justice S Nagamuthu and Justice MV Muralidaran on Monday, the government submitted a report, which the court had sought when the case had come up for hearing last week.

The court, which perused the report asked, "The writ petition alleged that there were 110 doctors on deputation. When you denied it, the court had asked for a report relating to the number of doctors and nurses who are at present on deputation in hospitals in the state. But, you have stated that there are 18 people in the Government Rajaji Hospital in Madurai. What about the status in the remaining hospitals?" It then asked for a fresh report from the government. 

India’s Ist woman dentist shares journey

For the first woman dentist of India and PU alumnus from Lahore Dental College, Dr Vimal Sood, the biggest challenge in old days was to make people aware that ‘tooth extraction’ was not the only treatment for all the problems. In those days, she used to travel across the country in her mobile van treating people for various teeth ailments.

Dr Vimal Sood was in Panjab University for the Dr Harvansh Singh Judge Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital White Coat Ceremony and induction programme for the first year students of 2016 batch.

Dr Vimal Sood (centre), first woman dentist of India, Ashish Jain (right), Director of Dr Harvansh Singh Judge Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital, and Deepti Gupta, Dean, International Students, light the lamp at Panjab University in Chandigarh on Tuesday

While sharing her experience as a dentist, she said: “There is no doubt that in old days there was constraint in her movement even as a doctor. With her colleagues, she used to explore the dental field as much as possible.”

NEET 2017 Exam Update

NEET 2017 MBBS medical entrance exam is scheduled to be conducted tentatively in May, 2017. For appearing in NEET 2017 exam, it is important to note that the aspirants are aware that they need to fulfill the eligibility criteria The applicants must be an Indian national or OCI (Overseas Citizen of India). The applicants must be between 17 to 25 years as on 31st December of the admission year (for reserved applicants maximum age limit is 30 years). It is important for the aspirants to go through the complete list of colleges which accept the scores of NEET 2017 exam. It is expected that the application forms will be available from the 1st week of December, 2017.

In order to be eligible for NEET 2017 MBBS medical entrance exam, the applicants must have cleared class 12 or equivalent examination from a recognized board with Physics, Chemistry, Biology/Bio-technology & Mathematics or any other elective subjects with English (appearing applicants can also apply). The applicants of NEET 2016 must have scored minimum 50% in PCB group (45% for general PH and 40% for SC/ST/OBC). 

NEET 2017 Exam Dates: Notification to be released in December

The notification for NEET 2017 exam will be out in December. It is expected that the exam will be conducted in May 2017. Aspirants are required to note that the courses offered after NEET exam are MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) and BDS (Bachelor of Dental Surgery). NEET 2017 (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) is a national level medical entrance test which is regulated by the CBSE Board.

NEET 2017 is a one tier exam which commences once in a year in month of May. From the year 2016 onwards, NEET exam has replaced AIPMT exam. All seats (MBBS/BDS) of any medical/dental college will be filled by the score of NEET examination only. As per the last order by Hon. Supreme Court, no other exam except NEET will be held for offering admission into MBBS/BDS courses in India from the year 2017.

Jeep driven by dentist mows down woman techie

CHENNAI: A 24-year-old software engineer, waiting for a cab on a service road on the Maduravoyal-Red Hills BypassRoad, was fatally knocked down by a jeep, reportedly driven by a dentist at 12:20pm on Friday.

The jeep came out of the KG Signature apartment complex off the Maduravoyal-Red Hills Bypass and hit R Rashmi who had gone to the place to meet a friend. The driver sped away, leaving the woman in a pool of blood. The security guard of the apartment rushed to her rescue and called out to the man to stop, police said. She is a native of Alappuzha district in Kerala.

The guard and Rashmi's friend Srinivasan, 26, from Andhra Pradesh, rushed her to a private hospital where the doctors declared her 'dead on arrival.' The Koyambedu traffic investigation wing police registered a case under IPC Section 304 (A) (death caused due to negligence).

Dental clinic fined Rs 25,000 for medical negligence

NAINITAL: Nainital district consumer forum has imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on a dental clinic for medical negligence.

A complaint was filed in 2011 by Hira Devi, whose husband Trilok Rawat was undergoing treatment for tooth sensitivity at the clinic. Rawat has since died.

In her complaint, Devi had alleged that the doctor uprooted a healthy tooth and then removed a part of her husband's gum to control the damage. "Doctors from the clinic misled us. My husband had problems chewing his food and had to undergo further treatment in Haldwani. I filed a complaint so that this does not happen to anyone else," said Devi.

Talking to TOI, Rajendra Pargai, a member of the forum said, "The case dates back to 2011 and we found the clinic to be at fault. The clinic has been ordered to pay the money to the family within a month of the order."

Dentist asked to pay Rs 10 lakhs bribe for post at Medical College Hospital

Dibrugarh: A denist has lodged a complaint against one Naba Kumar Patir claiming that the latter had demanded a sum of Rs 10 lakhs from him in lieu of an appointment at the Assam Medical College Hospital (AMCH). Following the complaint the accused was arrested on Thursday.

Naba Kumar Patir, an assistant engineer of Town and Country Planning department of Assam government was caught red handed accepting the bribe. A case has been registered against him by the Assam police.

“He was contacted me after I applied for a post in AMCH under Assam Public Service Commission and claimed that he would help me and demand bribe for it. He also said that, he has good contacts with APSC. Regarding the matter I contacted with police and police raided his house based on my complaint soon after I paid him Rs 10 lakh in cash at his house and caught him red handed,” the dentist told India Blooms.Jitul Deka, Secretary General of Asomiya Yuba Mancha has asked for a high level inquiry into the matter.

NEET 2016: SC dismisses extension of admissions to vacant 5000 seats

Supreme Court (SC) dismissed the extension of NEET 2016 medical admission in vacant seats quashed as SC dismissed extension of medical admission. The apex court heard the case filed by Delhi based NGO Sankalp Charitable Trust demanding filing of vacant medical and dental seats across the country. The Supreme Court had earlier set September 30 as the deadline to fill up all the medical and dental seats. The last date of admission was revised to October 7 by the apex court.

Sankalp Charitable Trust, Delhi had filed a petition in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court bench dismissed the petition stating that it will not further extend the dates for filling the seats for this academic year. There are approximately 5000 seats will have been filled. The Supreme Court had earlier ordered for combined counselling for all unfilled medical seats in Maharashtra. This year, Maharashtra will use the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) as the qualifying examination for admission into the post-graduate diploma courses conducted by the College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPS).

In 2017, NEET will be held in regional languages. The decision will be soon announced by the HRD ministry to expand the implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act. It was also decided that the students’ concerns will be at the centrepoint of any decision taken on the national common entrance examination. The Central Board of Secondary Education will conduct the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for admission to MBBS and BDS Courses in the academic session.

Rugby Players Replace Their Knocked Out Teeth With Bottle Openers Implant

An Argentinian beer company replaced rugby players’ missing teeth with bottle opener implants as part of an ad campaign.
The Salta beer ad, created by agency Ogilvy Argentina, documented how the company teamed with an oral surgeon “to reward players who gave everything they’ve got on the field — including their teeth.”

“We decided to give rugby players back the teeth they had lost in battle,” the ad says. “But we weren’t going to give them a simple tooth back we developed a unique dental implant, a specially designed tooth to open beer.”

The implants, which were installed by Dr. Sebastian Juri, bear the Salta brand name and were demonstrated to be working beer bottle openers by the patients at the end of the ad.