A Girl's First Time

As you lie back your muscles tighten. You put him off for a while searching for an excuse, but he refuses to be swayed as he approaches you.

He asks if you're afraid and you shake your head bravely. He has had more experience, but it's the first time his finger has found the right place.

He probes deeply and you shiver; your body tenses; but he's gentle like he promised he'd be.

He looks deeply within your eyes and tells you to trust him-he's done this many times before.

His cool smile relaxes you and you open wider to give him more room for an easy entrance. You begin to plead and beg him to hurry, but he slowly takes his time, wanting to cause you as little pain as possible. As he presses closer, going deeper, you feel the tissue give way; pain surges throughout your body and you feel the slight trickle of blood as he continues. He looks at you concerned and asks you if it's too painful. Your eyes are filled with tears but you shake your head and nod for him to go on. He begins going in and out with skill but you are now too numb to feel him within you.

After a few moments, you feel something bursting within you and he pulls it out of you, you lay panting, glad to have it over. He looks at you and smiling warmly, tells you, with a chuckle; that you have been his most stubborn yet most rewarding experience.

You smile and thank your dentist. After all, it was your first time to have a tooth pulled.

Naughty, Naughty!

Excuse me, What were you thinkin'?

Tooth cleaning leads to fewer heart problems: study

A man receives dental work during the Remote Area Medical (RAM) health clinic at the Wise County Fairgrounds in Wise, Virginia July 24, 2009.

Credit: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton

ORLANDO, Florida | Sun Nov 13, 2011 2:36pm EST

(Reuters) - Regular visits to the dentist for tooth cleaning may provide more than just a brighter smile.

According to data compiled by researchers in Taiwan, people who had their teeth professionally scraped and cleaned had a 24 percent lower risk of heart attack and 13 percent lower risk of stroke compared to those who never had a dental cleaning.

Poor oral hygiene has been associated with an increased risk of heart disease.

The researcher who presented the findings of the multi-year study at the American Heart Association scientific meeting in Orlando on Sunday surmised that professional tooth cleaning appears to reduce inflammation-causing bacterial growth that can lead to heart disease.

"Protection from heart disease and stroke was more pronounced in participants who got tooth scaling at least once a year," said Dr. Zu-Yin Chen, a cardiology fellow at Veterans General Hospital in Taipei, who presented the findings.

The analysis of more 100,000 people beginning in 2007 was based on data in the Taiwan National Health insurance data base. None of the study subjects had a history of prior heart attack or stroke, but the analysis did not adjust for risk factors such as smoking or obesity.

Researchers said a higher frequency of professional tooth cleaning led to a greater reduction in heart risk. They defined higher frequency as at least two visits to the dentist for a cleaning in two years.

An Insight into a Different World – MBA after BDS

As the world becomes complex & competitive to live in, it becomes very important to make right decisions at the right time. After completing graduation in dentistry, that time would certainly knock the door and the young graduates would be in immense pressure thinking as to how to shape their career. It becomes important not only to succeed in the life but also to satisfy the needs of the society being its respectable health servants.

Some doctors might opt for private dental practise to start serving people whereas some doctors plan to continue their education to enhance their skills in some specific department. For the people who want to continue their education further after graduation, you have options in the form of post-graduation courses in dentistry which can be categorised as diploma courses and master’s courses (MDS). This is the general perception which many dental graduates have and it is a known fact that very few people think beyond that. The time has certainly come to analyse and evaluate the different options that as a normal graduate you can pursue for the betterment of the field you have studied for past few years. Some of these courses include post-graduation in management (MBA), UPSC and few other public sector courses. As a graduate from a respectable profession, you can also think of doing masters of public health in different branches and diploma courses in medical fields related to dentistry.

As a student of Management (MBA) from a prestigious brand of B-school of India, I am keener to share some management options available for a dental graduate. There is a saying that every sector or every profession require managers to effectively use the resources available and make the profits to succeed in the business. Being a dentist, earning money seems to be very easy, but when it comes to increasing the profits after tallying the balance sheet, people find it difficult. I have seen many doctors starting multiple dental clinics after initial successes, but when it comes to managing, they tend to give up and keep their clinics for sale. It’s just that doing an MBA enables you to understand the business problems at the highest level. Besides, with the current opportunities in healthcare management in the country, an MBA seems to be the way forward.

For a dental graduate, the options in management studies include Hospital Administration, Health Administration, Pharmaceutical Management and plane MBA specializing in general fields like Marketing, Finance, Human Resources, Operations or Systems. It can be pursued as a fulltime course or part time course and the duration of the course depends on the institute you are choosing for it. There are some institutes which complete the course in 9 months and there are some which take around 3 years. But the most common duration which many institutes across India offer is 2 years. Some institutes offer part time courses for the same timings but conduct lectures in the weekends which solely target the working professionals.

As the name suggests MBA in hospital management teaches the hospital administration to the peak as it includes the subjects related to different departments of a hospital, whereas MBA in health management enables you to understand the grass root level of healthcare system in India, most part of which include health insurance and healthcare consultancy subjects. There are some colleges in India which provide both this courses in a single diploma as MBA in health and hospital management. Moreover, as you may know healthcare sector in India is in a booming state and one of the reason is increasing opportunities in pharma sector because of which many foreign players are coming to India and merging with or acquiring Indian pharma companies. So MBA in pharmaceutical management would give you a stand to succeed in this largely profitable sector.

Besides all this specialised courses, one more option which you may consider is general or plane MBA, which will help you understanding the basic business models on a general point of view and open the options for you to join any of the above said sectors as well as many other sectors which you may be interested in depending on your will to leave this dental or health related sector. But you may find it difficult to cope up with as some of the subjects in this course may sound new and complex to you. But certainly nothing is said to be impossible and am saying this as we, dental graduates, can handle this things on a relatively easier way. Besides I am into my third trimester (out of six) in my institute doing plane MBA and I can safely say that it’s not that hard.

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he word success is always an individual dependant. For someone, the magnitude of success may be small and he/she may call that they succeed in life. MBA is just a mode that one can pick up in your life as a career option; but that do not assure you the success. It is always your skills that come up first and the way you implement it, matters the most. In short success is not doing an MBA but MBA can be considered as one of the success mode in life. Rely on yourself than relying on any degree.

I will come up with a post related to how I prepared for entrance exams in addition to different management institutes and their respective admission procedures, in my next blog within next 10 days.

Disclaimer: This is a personal weblog. The opinions expressed here represent my own, based on research in real life and online portals.

Dr. Kishor Chindam

BDS, MGM Dental College, Navi Mumbai

PGP-I, Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli (IIM Trichy)

NBDE Part 1- 2012 Guide

Effective January 1, 2012, results for the NBDE Part I will be reported as pass/fail only for
candidates who pass the test.   For remediation purposes, candidates who fail the examination
will receive numerical scores for each of the major disciplines covered on the test. Please note
that if you tested prior to January 1, 2012, your numerical scores for prior attempts will still be
reported.
The status of “pass” is reported if you achieved a standard score of 75 or higher. The status of
“fail” is reported if you achieved a standard score below 75; if you fail the examination, you are
required to repeat the examination.
Effective January 1, 2012, you must successfully complete the NBDE Part I within five years or
five attempts, whichever comes first.

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THINGS TO BE DONE BEFORE COMED- K ( PG MDS ENTRANCE )

1) GET 2 YEARS OF MEDICAL COMED-K AND KCET 
-Go through the whole paper. Mark the questions which are related to you remotely.
- Exp - Like gall stones.. they can be asked, but dont go in depth
- atleast 2 - 4 questions can be expected from these papers
- Makes a lot of difference for ranks
- DONT FORGET TO DO IT
- Books can be obtained from shopes, specially in Paras bangalore or south india

2) DO LESS OF MEDICAL AIPG PAPERS
- Only question and answer needs to be done at this moment
- Last 3 -4 years is enough
- Dont read discussion much except the imp which cleared your basics and marked
- Latest things , which are clinically oriented can be asked like genes.. etc

3) MORE OF DENTAL MCQ-
- Revise Dental pulse as much as possible
- Dont forget to do new questions from Gowrishankar Dentest
- Give more time to questions which you always tend to forget.. Hope u have marked
- Read synopsis first now before solving MCQ
- Read explanation of latest questions , New things will be asked from here
- Revise, Revise, Revise

4) BE THOROUGH WITH LATEST DENTAL PAPERS
- I am sure our Dental Quest Comed, Kcet and Maharastr paper is the best of all
- Do bytes recent papers. Hope u have made the correction

5) DONT ADD ANY NEW BOOK

6) NATIONAL BOARD NOT ASKED MUCH 

7) ANSWERS CAN BE CHALLENGED IN COMED
- So , Believe is good Reff. Dont go for answers without correct reff
- believe in the provided by the exam. Mark those in exam so that you dont loose mark, Those are given in bytes or may be you have it in any website

8) DONT BELIEVE WHO SAYS COMED IS SET
- Its Genuine 99% ..

9) ITS TOUGHER THAN AIPG AS LOT OF COMPETITION AND LOT OF SEATS

10) NO NEGATIVE MARKING , SO SMILE :)

11) FEE IS HIGH... BUT ITS NOT THE TIME TO THINK ABOUT IT..GET A RANK FIRST

12) DONT OVER BURN

13) PLAN ACCORDING TO THE IMP EXAM.. DONT DO SPECIAL PREPARATION FOR THE INBETWEEN EXAMS LIKE YENNAPOYS , KLE ETC ETC.. YOU CAN REVISE FOR IT 1 DAYS BEFORE EXAM, BUT KEEP THE NORMAL PREPRATION ACCORDING TO YOUR SHEDULE

14) STILL NEED MORE.. GO BACK AND OPEN THE BOOK NOW :p

Yours

Dr. Suresh Shenvi :)

Drop in pass percentage of dental students

The revised results for the dental college students who come under the affiliation of the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University have come as a shocker to the students as the original pass percentage has dropped even lower after the new results were announced.

Several dental college students who had appeared for their exams during August had failed with only 48 per cent of students managing to clear the papers.

The students had challenged the results by filing cases in the court. The Madras high court recently ruled in favour of the students asking the university to follow the guidelines of the dental council of India.

However, when the results were announced, the students were shocked to note that many of their failed status remained the same and some of the students who had cleared the papers earlier and had gone for their internship had also failed after the revised results were released.

“As per the DCI norms, students have to secure minimum of 150 marks out of 300 in theory and 50 marks out of 100 in practicals to pass.

But now the university has changed the evaluation pattern in violation of the DCI guidelines,” said a dental college student. Efforts to contact the university authorities on the matter proved futile.

Source: DECCAN CHRONICLE

THE DENTISTS ACT, 1948

THE DENTISTS ACT, 1948

(16 OF 1948)

(As modified up to the 1st July 1987)

[Subordinate legislation being published separately.]

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA Ministry of Law and Justice

  

For Downloading Complete Act CLICK HERE

My first encounter with Operative Dentistry

Operative Dentistry or O.D (being medicos that's the first thing we do to any given terminology, that is, cut it short!), is my favorite subject of second year at college. For all those who are still wondering what it is about, it is a subject of Dental Science. O.D deals with cavity preparations and filling. So now you have a basic idea about it. 
It all started in the 'Phantom head lab'( a pre-clinical set up where we practice tooth cavity preparations on mannequin).I had a look at it once, when I was a fresher. Was so curious to work on it, and now when I actually do, I feel that inquisitive Dentist in me.

HISTORY:
Our first exercise was definitely an introduction , where we were briefed about the field of study. Then came the elephant sized tooth, on which we had to make cavities (which we are supposed to burr drill on patient's tooth). We use narrow and broad chisels for cavity preparation on a plaster model. (My topic will lose interest if I start explaining the dental instruments, maybe if I come up with something interesting on them, later ;) )

My first try at forming the chisel-cut 'well' into the model, where the faculty told me, I can rest with a blanket! ;)

Later on, we were made to wax fill the self-made cavities, just so as to have an idea, what cavity filling is like.
                                                                                                       

I could hear them say-'Perfect!'

Wax filling and carving.

PRESENT: 
Now we no more have to work on the above shown plaster models. Acrylic teeth! 

My dentist dost at work! Poser :)

Okay, the terminology rolls in! So the mannequin wait for us in the Phantom head lab. We then fix base with teeth screwed in it. Set it in position, as in the height we feel ourselves comfortable to work at. Arrange the instruments, which are classified as diagnostic, cutting, carving, burnishing, and post-carving instruments(in order of usage). Micromotor(MM) (that appears to me as a sea horse), fixed on the handle, the burr(straight, inverted cone, tapering, round) we have to work with is adjusted into the MM. We start with the cutting of and finally constructing a cavity. Till now we have mastered(yeah!) class I, Class II, MOD cavity preparations. That's enough for us at the end of first sem of the II year! Phew!


HEADS UP:
Most of us don't care about the sitting position,which has been stated to be:

• Upright, with comfortably occupying the whole chair, so as to be in a stable posture. 
• The feet should firmly rest on the ground. 
• Pen grip hold on the micromotor. 
• Not to bend and enter the patient's mouth, he surely won't like that.(For maxillary cavity preparation  most of us did!)
  
• Not to wear rings/watch/accessories while at work.(Since they can be a cause of infection)
• Always use a mouth mirror.

FUTURE:
Is in my hands, and patients mouth! :) Eagerly waiting to be in III year!!!

Written by Priyanka Pant.

Priyanka is a 2nd year BDS student  (2010-2015) from Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal, India.

She describes herself as a Music and nature lover/Nomad/ Fine artist(sketching)/Sportsperson

Agar hum DENTISTS na hote...

Agar hum dentists na hote toh:
*Pocket, jeb hoti.
*Catch sirf cricket match me hota.
*Elevator bas lift ko kaha jata.
*Steel wires ko yuhi modne me MAZA aata
*Model "analysis" bas ramp pe dekhkar kiya jata
*Wax diyo me dalneke kaam aata.
*Stone ka matlab patthar hota..
*"JR!" SIRF "junior" ka ek shortform hota!!*
Tray,chaay serve karne me use hota..
OS ka matab bass Operating System hi hota.. :P

Now Living life in a different way......!!

Blind man sees wife for first time after having a TOOTH implanted into his eye.

When Martin Jones met his wife four years ago, he never imagined that one day he would get to see what she looked like.

The 42-year-old builder was left blind after an accident at work more than a decade ago.

But a remarkable operation - which implants part of his tooth in his eye -  has now pierced his world of darkness.

The procedure, performed fewer than 50 times before in Britain, uses the segment of tooth as a holder for a new lens grafted from his skin.

'The doctors took the bandages off and it was like looking through water and then I saw this figure and it was her,' he said today.

'She's wonderful and lovely. It was unbelievable to see her for the first time.'

He added: 'When I found out there was a chance I would get my sight back, the first person I wanted to see was her.'

Mr Jones, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, married his wife Gill, 50, four years ago.

By that time he had already spent eight years without his sight after a tub of white hot aluminium exploded in his face at work in a scrapyard.

He suffered 37 per cent burns and had to wear a special body stocking for 23 hours a day. He also had his left eye removed.

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But surgeons were able to save the right eye, even though he was unable to see through it.

At first specialists in Nottingham tried to save his sight using stem cells from a donor but the attempt failed.

It was only when a revolutionary new operation was pioneered at the Sussex Eye Clinic in Brighton that he was given a chance to have his sight back.

Surgeon Christopher Liu used a living tooth to carry a new lens because Mr Jones' eye could reject a plastic implant

During the procedure, a minute section of a patient's tooth is removed, reshaped and chiselled through to grip the man-made lens which is then placed in its core.

It is implanted under an eyelid where it becomes covered in tissue.

The process requires a living tooth as an implant because doctors suggest there are chances the eye would reject a plastic equivalent.

So a canine - which is the best option due to its shape and size - was taken out of Mr Jones' mouth.

A patch of skin is then taken from the inside of the cheek and placed in the eye for two months, where it gradually acquires its own blood supply.

The tooth segment is finally transplanted into the eye socket. The flap of grafted skin is then partially lifted from the eye and placed over its new sturdy base.

More...

• Father saves daughter from lung cancer after doctors sent her home with just antibiotics

Finally, surgeons cut a hole in the grafted cornea to let light through.  

'I feel fantastic getting my sight back,' he said. 'I can't really describe it - it's beyond words. I was blind for 12 years and when my sight came back everything had changed.

'The first car I saw when my sight was restored was a Smart car and I couldn't stop laughing - I'd never seen one before and I thought it had been chopped in half.

'Getting my sight back has changed my life. It is such a precious gift and you don't really appreciate it until it is taken away .

'The doctors took the bandages off and it was like looking through water and then I saw this figure and it was her. She's wonderful and lovely. It was unbelievable to see her for the first time.'

'I have been so fortunate that my sight has been returned . I find it such a simple pleasure being able to see what is going on in the world.'

The eight-hour operation, pioneered by surgeon Christopher Liu, is designed to help patients who have corneal blindness but who are not suitable for traditional corneal transplants.

'When I first heard about the technique I couldn't believe it. I don't think many people can,' said Mr Jones.

'My friends just don't believe me . They think I'm pulling their leg or have just made it up.

'But when I take my glasses off they say 'oh my God' because my eye looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. They're just amazed at it.'

Mr Liu is a corneal specialist and Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon based at Sussex Eye Hospital, Brighton.. He is also President of the British Society for Refractive Surgery.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1197256/Blind-man-sees-wife-time-having-TOOTH-implanted-eye.html#ixzz1eGN1kiUQ

Advances in All Ceramic Restorations

Advances in All Ceramic Restorations

View more presentations from Umm Al-Qura University Faculty of Dentistry

A dentist locked in a room?

A dentist locked in a room?


An orthodontist will try to expand the door borders and get out in 10 years


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A prosthodontist will make an impression of the lock hole and cast a key.




A periodontist will dig his way around it.




An endodontist will rotate a thief wire in the lock.




A pedodontist will talk with the door and beg it till it open




A surgeon will smash the door open



Doctors of the Oral Medicine : Will keep observing the door every 6 months hoping that it will spontaneously open

Mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) in endodontics

Mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) is a mixture of a refined Portland cement and bismuth oxide, and also contains trace amounts of SiO2, CaO, MgO, K2SO4, and Na2SO4. MTA was first described for endodontic applications in the scientific literature in 1993. Nowadays, there are two forms of MTA on the market, the traditional gray MTA (GMTA) and white MTA (WMTA), which was introduced in 2002. WMTA has less Al2O3, MgO, and FeO and, also, smaller particles than GMTA.

MTA is prepared by mixing the powder with sterile water in a 3:1 powder/liquid ratio. This results in the formation of a colloidal gel that solidifies to a hard structure in approximately 3–4h. It is believed that moisture from the surrounding tissues favours the setting reaction.

Similar or less microleakage has been reported for MTA compared to traditional endodontic sealing materials [gutta-percha and pastes] when used as an apical restoration, furcation repair, and in the treatment of immature apices. 3mm of MTA is recommended as the minimal amount against microleakage and 5mm in the treatment of immature apices. In vitro and in vivo studies support the biocompatibility of freshly mixed and set MTA when compared to other dental materials

Clinical applications of MTA include:
pulp capping,
pulpotomy dressing,
root-end filling,
root repair [resorption and perforations] and
apexification.

Clinical prospective studies suggest that both GMTA and WMTA have similar results as traditional calcium hydroxide in non-carious mechanical pulp exposures in teeth with normal pulp tissue. However, further clinical studies are needed, particularly involving pulp exposures in carious teeth.

Clinical prospective studies using MTA as pulpotomy dressings for primary and permanent teeth reported similar or better results for MTA materials compared to formocresol or calcium hydroxide in the formation of dentine bridges and continued root development. Histological analysis has suggested a more homogenous and continuous dentine bridge formation by MTA than calcium hydroxide at both 4 and 8 weeks after treatment and less inflammation associated with MTA than calcium hydroxide.

There are several case reports in which MTA has been successfully used to repair horizontal root fractures, root resorption, internal resorption, furcation perforations and apexification and/or apexogenesis which was confirmed clinically and radiographically.

Overall results on the use of MTA in endodontics are favourable, but more well-designed and controlled clinical longitudinal studies are needed to allow systematic review and confirmation of all suggested clinical indications of MTA.

You may be interested in a list of free full text scientific articles published in international peer-reviewed journals.


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