UK-HIV Dentist: 22,000 Patients To Be Recalled
More than 22,000 patients who may have been treated by a dentist infected with HIV will be urged to come forward by bosses at NHS England.
Experts want to carry out tests due to a possible risk of infection from dangerous blood-borne diseases which could include HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C.
It is being described by Health Chiefs as a “significant patient recall”. NEWSLINK
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Why Kalki Koechlin got dead tongue at dental office
She asked dentist to give her a ‘dead tongue’ so she could get the enunciation just right. She needed this lisp- Kalki Koechlin was playing her part in the upcoming film “Margarita, with a Straw” in which she plays character who has cerebral palsy.
In ‘Happy Ending’. She plays the role of dentist in the film, and will be seen in a comic avatar for the first time ever.MORE HERE
The man called ‘Horror dentist’
A ROGUE Dutch dentist suspected of mutilating dozens of French patients can be extradited to France to stand trial, an Amsterdam court has ruled.
Dubbed the “horror dentist” by the Dutch press, Mark van Nierop was detained in Canada last month and flown back to his native Netherlands where he was arrested under a Paris-issued international warrant. LINK
Man dupes students seeking admission- arrested
They gained access to a database of students who had successfully passed the CET to gain entry into medical and dental colleges and called them, claiming to represent the company that conducts the CET, promising them seats in colleges. The Amboli police have arrested a man who had set up a front company in Oshiwara to dupe students applying for a place in Maharashtra’s medical and dental colleges. According to police officials, Aftab Khan and his accomplice Arjun Kumar created a fake account.…NEWSLINK
One of a kind surgery at AIIMS
In a first-of-its-kind surgery, doctors in AIIMS recently replaced a joint of the jaw of a 19-year-old boy who could not open his mouth for the last eight years. He suffered from a condition called Total Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) Ankylosis, a condition common among accident victims.
Doctors said Shivam Sharma could not speak as his jaw joint had fused with his skull base after he fell flat on his face while flying a kite eight years ago. TOI NEWS
All India ONLINE admission test for PG dental courses, to be held on Feb 2015
Some big names from the private sector in Indian higher education have come together to offer a new pan-India test for admissions to postgraduate medical and dental courses. They hope this would reduce the burden on students who presently appear for a long list of entrance exams.
Uni-GAUGE is projected as the Indian version of the Graduate Record Examinations, in which the score obtained by students would determine their admissions. The first Uni-GAUGE for postgraduate medical and dental courses, which would be an online test, is scheduled to be held on February 15, 2015. Scores from this exam could be used by private and deemed universities for admissions. NEWSLNK …….Single Test all India in pipeline
A Dental Vacation Could Save You Big Money
But how far would you be willing to go? How about hundreds or thousands of miles to Mexico, Costa Rica or India. Patients are catching flights to their dental appointments to save thousands of dollars on dentures, implants, even root canals. LINK HERE
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Dental Remains of Ice Age infants found
Further analysis of the dental and skeletal remains helped scientists determine that one of the infants survived birth only by a few weeks, while the other died in its mother’s womb. A group of archaeologists have discovered the remains of two Ice Age infants at a site in Alaska, which, according to researchers, represent the youngest human remains from that era ever found in North America. Scientists believe that the infants were buried more than 11,000 years ago. LINK
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