AIIMS to offer MDS for OBC students after HC intervention
Gupta, a first rank holder in the OBC category in the post-graduate MDS course, was denied admission to the institute. He told the court in his plea that even though there are five seats in the MDS course, not a single one was reserved for OBC category students, which is illegal, as there is a provision of 27 per cent reservation of seats for OBC candidates in every institute. MORE HERE
Student commits suicide at AIIMS
A second year MBBS student at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, Himanshu Katara from Rajasthan, allegedly committed suicide in his hostel room on Tuesday.
In a statement, the hospital authorities said: “We got to know that a student in room No. 6 of hostel No.3 was not opening the door. Two undergraduate medical students were asked to peep through the window and they found the boy hanging from the ceiling. The hostel warden was immediately alerted and some hostel authorities rushed to the victim’s room.” MORE IN HINDU
Admit only those who have taken NEET, says SC
The apex court bench of Justice Gyan Sudha Misra and Justice Madan B Lokur said this on an application filed by NGO Sankalp, seeking direction that the private medical colleges which were enrolling students on the basis of their own entrance tests should admit only those students who had appeared in the NEET and secured at least 50 per cent marks.
Appearing for the NGO, counsel Prashant Bhushan told the court that the interim order passed by the apex court on May 13 was not clear as it had allowed the declarations of the results of the entrance examinations conducted by the Medical Council under the NEET and by various private colleges but did not spell out how admissions would take place. MORE HERE
Chinese invasion of Indian dental market- damaging ?
The Chinese invasion has slashed the prices by several times. Most dentists admit to buying cheaper products from the market. For example, a 15-gm packet of glass ionomer cement (GIC), a restorative material used in dentistry, costs Rs 250 in case of a Chinese product as against Rs 2,500 for a Japanese product.
The state (TN) chapter of the Indian Dental Association has set up a disputes redressal division (DRD) to address the issue. “The huge price variation makes us doubtful of the standards. Are we being over-priced, under-priced or is the material genuine? We want the dental material to come under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act,” division chairman Dr Ajikumar said. MORE HERE
Flooding damages German dental practices
In some regions of Germany, people are still fighting the record floods. Both private homes and many business facilities have been destroyed by the vast and unexpected masses of water. Among those affected are dentists whose practices have been damaged and in one case even destroyed.
According to Stiftung Hilfswerk Deutscher Zahnärzte für Lepra- und Notgebiete, an aid foundation established by German dentists, 11 dentists in Saxony have been affected and 10 in Bavaria. The floods also hit 20 practices in Thuringia and 8 practices in Saxony-Anhalt, one of which was destroyed in the flooding. However, these are only current figures; more dentists could be affected and could now be fighting to salvage their businesses. LINK see pic below
Genetic test may tell how often you need to go to dentist
Our genes may stave off a trip to the dentist.
A new study in which researchers tracked dental patients for 16 years, looking for gum disease and tooth loss, found that people with healthy mouths who have mutations in their IL-1 gene are more likely to have teeth woes than those without the genetic variation. MORE HERE
New Bacterium That Causes Gum Disease & bone loss
The newly discovered bacterium that causes gum disease also triggers normally protective proteins in the mouth to actually destroy more bone, a University of Michigan study found.
“Identifying the mechanism that is responsible for periodontitis is a major discovery,” said Yizu Jiao, a postdoctoral fellow at the U-M Health System, and lead author of the study appearing in the recent issue of the journal Cell Host and Microbe. MORE HERE
Early Exposure to Bisphenol A Might Damage the Enamel of Teeth
Are teeth the latest victims of bisphenol A? Yes, according to the conclusions of work carried out by the research team led by Ariane Berdal of the Université Paris-Diderot and Sylvie Babajko, Research Director at Inserm Unit 872 “Centre des Cordeliers.” The researchers have shown that the teeth of rats treated with low daily doses of BPA could be damaged by this.Analysis of the damage shows numerous characteristics that are common with a recently identified pathology of tooth enamel that affects roughly 18% of children between the ages of 6 and 8. MORE HERE
Annual cleaning is enough ?
MONDAY, June 10 (HealthDay News) — For many people, once-a-year dental cleaning may be enough to prevent gum disease that leads to tooth loss, according to a new study.
“Twice-yearly cleanings have been recommended for over 50 years without supporting evidence,” study author William Giannobile, a professor of dentistry and biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan, said in a university news release.
But the results of this study “showed that one yearly cleaning is likely to be enough for patients with no risk factors,” he said. “Patients with one or more risk factors, which represent over half of the population, should visit at least twice a year and likely more in some cases.” MORE HERE
Dental expenses are a financial burden for Australians
Among other findings, the researchers observed that almost 80 per cent of adults with dental insurance made co-contributions towards the cost of dental visits in 2010. While the majority of adults with health insurance reported that their insurance had paid some (79 per cent) or all (8 per cent) of the dental costs of their last visit, nearly 10 per cent of insured adults had paid for all their own expenses. Of these, approximately 17 per cent reported that this had resulted in a large financial burden. MORE
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