50 per cent seats for dental courses lying vacant post NEET

The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) has led to a situation wherein seats for the BDS course are lying vacant. Facing crisis, the Dental Council of India (DCI) has written to the Union health ministry for lowering the percentile to fill up these vacant seats. Earlier, the government had decided that students will be admitted to medical and dental courses only through NEET.

DROP FROM FULL OCCUPANCY TO HALF

The dental colleges were witnessing full occupancy for the BDS course. But now the colleges are finding it difficult to fill even 50 per cent seats. These dental colleges have to complete the admission process by October 7.

Dental college student commits suicide by hanging self in Mathura

A 22-year-old student of a dental college allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in his hostel room in Mathura, police said. Gamang Angu, a resident of Itanagar, was a third-year student of K D Dental College. Angu allegedly committed suicide on Thursday by hanging himself to the ceiling fan of his hostel room, Senior Superintendent of Police Bablu Kumar said. In the suicide note addressed to his parents, Angu said he blames himself for his death and no one else is responsible for it, Kumar said.

5 dental myths that may be hurting your health

Research shows that your teeth can speak volumes about your overall health, so it’s important to be informed when it comes to taking care of your mouth.

Dr. Manny Alvarez, senior managing health editor for FoxNews.com, recently sat down with Dr. Gerry Curatola, founder of Rejuvenation Dentistry in New York City to debunk some common dental myths that could be hurting your health.

Sugar is the main cause of tooth decay.
We’ve all heard it growing up: Sugar will rot your teeth. But while sugar can lead to cavity formation – as well as a variety of other health maladies – it’s not the real culprit when it comes to tooth decay.

"This is a myth in a sense because sugar, while being 'the gasoline in the tank' is not the cause of tooth decay. It's actually acids from bacteria that have gone to the dark side,” Curatola told FoxNews.com. “We talk about good bugs and bad bugs; bad bugs are actually an unhealthy expression of natural bacteria in the mouth.”

Dental council chief in trouble as univ nixes his membership

NEW DELHI: The election of Dr Dibyendu Mazumdar, president of the Dental Council of India, to the council has been "withdrawn" and "cancelled" by Nilamber-Pitamber University (NPU), which he represented on the council. With his council membership itself being terminated by the university, his appointment as president too is untenable, pointed out those who had filed cases challenging the legality of his appointment in the Delhi high court and the Kerala high court.

According to a memo issued by NPU registrar on September 1, the appointment of Mazumdar as a visiting professor of Vananchal Dental College and Hospital (VDCH) in Garhwa, Jharkhand, which is affiliated to NPU, and his subsequent election to DCI was made "in gross violation of relevant statutory provisions as contained in the Jharkhand State Universities Act 2000 and the Dentist Act, 1948".

MCI Debars Seven Doctors From Andhra Pradesh And Telangana

The Medical Council of India (MCI) has debarred three Telangana and four Andhra Pradesh doctors from teaching for five years after their names were found in a 'ghost' medical faculty list in a Puducherry-based private medical institute. In fact, the seven are part of a bigger medical faculty racket unearthed at Puducherry's Vinayaka Mission's Medical College & Hospital by the Chennai anti-corruption branch of CBI. As many as 131 private doctors are allegedly involved in the racket.

Those debarred by MCI include three practicing private doctors from Hyderabad—G Vahini from Jubilee Hills, Md Jamaluddin Qadri from Mozzam Jahi Market and Md Iqbal from Shantinagar. Those from AP are P Srinivas Prasad from Tenali (Guntur), K Gopi Krishan from New Military Colony (Nellore), Y Tanuja of Dargammitta (Nellore) and Ramanathan from TSN Colony (Visakhapatnam). The MCI disciplinary committee has asked its state counterpart, AP State Medical Council (APSMC), to implement the punishment.

Clinical Problem Solving in Periodontology & Implantology - Francis J. Hughes,Shakeel Shahdad,Kevin G. Seymour,Francis Nohl,Wendy Turner

Author(s) :Hughes & Seymour & Turner & Shahdad & Nohl

Release Date:11 Oct 2012

Imprint:Churchill Livingstone

eBook ISBN :9780702052071

Pages:248



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MAN GIVEN LIFE FOR RAPE AND MURDER BASED ON BITE MARKS ON VICTIM

KEM expert helps cops nail criminal using dental forensics; first such case in Maharashtra.

A forensic odontologist from KEM Hospital, the only such expert in Maharashtra, has helped the state procure a life term for a rapist and murderer by matching bite marks found on his 14-year-old victim's body to the 34-year-old man's dental profile. According to A R Kotikhane, the public prosecutor who tried the case, this is the first instance of a forensic odontology being employed to obtain a conviction in a Maharashtra court.

The Parbhani police, tasked with investigating the case, lacked sufficient forensic evidence to link the perpetrator, Irfan Afroz Sannulla Farroque, to the crime, which he committed in October. All they had to go on was a set of bite marks discovered on the body of the girl, an orphan, who had been violated sexually and strangled to death.