Dental college penalized for unfair practice by consumer forum
Holding a dental college guilty of deficiency in services and adopting unfair trade practice, the Thane Additional District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum ordered it to pay Rs 70,000 compensation to a student along with the tuition fee refund of Rs 79,000.
Dismissing the defense of the Terna Dental College in Navi Mumbai, the forum president S S Mhatre and member S S Patil recently asked it to pay compensation and refund the amount to Kavita Mullal Kanojia, an OBC category student. NEWSLINK
Why Dentist Prices variation ?
AMSTERDAM – There is a lot of variation in the rates that dentists use, including for placing a crown. This while there are fixed dental fees, which are determined. Annually by the Dutch Healthcare Authority for the entire sector in the Netherlands This is the finding of the independent comparison 123tandarts.nl.
Most dental offices charge a total price of 700, – EUR for a crown. However, more and more dentists are offering this treatment for a much lower price, even up to half. 123tandarts.nl came to this understanding after examining the data of more than five thousand dental practices. Many practices offer cheaper crowns and implants and advertise for it. NEWSLINK
Action against Dental college
RKDF Dental College, Bhopal has failed to respond to a show-cause notice for overcharging fee and not returning caution money to students despite three reminders.
“Fee Regulatory Committee is likely to impose a fine up to Rs 10 lakh per student on the college, if found guilty. The committee can also recommend ban on fresh admission in the college”.
Around 100 dental college students had filed a complaint with the AFRC on March 1 alleging that college had been flouting fee norms. TOI NEWS
Print your orthodontic appliance in an hour
Dentists have traditionally made orthodontic appliances by first taking an impression from the patient and then creating a plaster model that is sent to a lab for scanning, a laborious and time consuming process that could take two weeks or more. Companies such as Sirona, NextDent and 3DSystems, which were represented at the IDEM trade fair, have developed systems that would allow dentists to digitally scan a patient’s mouth and use CAD/CAM to make the orthodontic appliance in the clinic within the hour. NEWSLINK
Mother who can’t smile
She is unable to smile, blink or to look to the left or right
She was offered surgery to allow her to smile but turned it down
The mother-of-two says she wants to set an example to her children
Says they should learn people don’t need surgery if they look different
‘I might not be able to smile on the outside but I’m always smiling inside’ FULL STORY
‘Oil pulling’: Legit or another alternative medicine fad?
“I would say there are not enough research and proper clinical trials in this regard,” wrote Sharath Asokan, BDS, MDS, PhD, a professor at the department of pediatric dentistry at Meenakshi Ammal Dental College in Chennai, India, in an email to DrBicuspid.com. “Within limited available literature and as a person working in this area for close to a decade, I am convinced this works.”
For now, the ADA has no opinion on the matter and responded to interview requests by saying that it cannot comment on oil pulling because additional research is needed..Oil pulling “is as good as chlorhexidine for a routine preventive practice,” Dr. Asokan said.
Thai researchers from the Faculty of Dentistry at Mahidol University in Bangkok employed coconut oil, corn oil, rice bran oil, palm oil, sesame oil, sunflower oil, and soy bean oil (Asia Journal of Public Health, May-August 2011, Vol. 2:2, pp. 62-66). They found that “coconut oil exhibited antimicrobial activity against S. mutans and [Candida] albicans,” they wrote. “Sesame oil had antibacterial activity against S. mutans whereas sunflower oil had antifungal activity against C. albicans. However, [Lactobacillus] casei was found to be resistant to all tested oils.” Their study provided enough data for the researchers to conclude that “oil-pulling therapy with some edible oils could be used as a preventive home therapy to maintain oral hygiene, especially in developing countries.” NEWSLINK
New technology will cure all the composite FAST
Curing Light does not penetrate very deeply into the composite material, the patients often have to endure a cumbersome procedure in which the fillings are applied and hardened in several steps. The Vienna University of Technology in collaboration with the company Ivoclar Vivadent have now developed a new generation of photoactive materials based on the element Germanium. The Germanium-based photo initiator was created at the Vienna University of Technology and then extensively tested by Ivoclar Vivadent. MORE HERE TOI LINK
Mutation found in jaw tumor: World’s First
A gene mutation in ameloblastoma, which is a tumor of the jaw has been discovered by a team of researchers in a world-first finding. Ameloblastoma is an odontogenic tumor with a high tendency to recur after treatment. It is most often found in the posterior of the lower jaw, and are treated by surgery, often resulting in tissue deficiencies in the jaws as well as loss of several teeth. NEWSLINK
Stem cells from teeth make brain-like cells
University of Adelaide researchers have discovered that stem cells taken from teeth can grow to resemble brain cells, suggesting they could one day be used in the brain as a therapy for stroke.
Dr Ellis conducted this research as part of her Physiology PhD studies at the University, before making the step into commercialisation. The results of her work have been published in the journal Stem Cell Research & Therapy. MORE HERE
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