India Needs more Dentists ?
India Needs 200 000 more dentists ?
New Delhi, April 3,2008 (IANS) India is setting up 60 new medical colleges and 225 nursing colleges in public-private partnership to tide over its current acute shortage of doctors, nurses, dentists and paramedics, a Planning Commission report has said.
It also said that the 'only way' to meet the crunch is to open the medical education sector 'completely for private sector participation and companies being allowed to establish medical and dental colleges just as they have been allowed to open nursing colleges'.
The report, released Wednesday by Planning Commission Deputy Chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia, said that India faces a shortage of about 600,000 doctors, one million nurses, 200,000 dental surgeons and large numbers of paramedical staff.
Currently, professional colleges churn out about 30,000 doctors a year, apart from 20,000 dentists and 45,000 nurses.
Now what is going to happen in India, all villages will get dentists ? NO, what is more likely that cities will have 1 to 10 Ratio of dentist to population. To get more insight on this topic email to gurudental@yahoo.com, write your views also.
For full news HERE
Do attend a Great Dental conference in Bangalore 26-27 July 2008, 25 Great speakers, great Banquet, Great trade fair, very low registration. CLICK HERE to register ONLINE.
Using Periodontal Ligament Regeneration To Save Teeth- Future is exciting
Source: Agnes Berendsen Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Teeth may fall out as a result of inflammation and subsequent destruction of the tissues supporting the teeth. Dutch researcher Agnes Berendsen has investigated a possible solution to this problem. At the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), she has studied the regeneration of the periodontal ligament by use of tissue engineering. The 3D in vitro model she has developed appears to be promising for regenerating periodontal ligament and may also prove valuable for restoring tendons and ligaments elsewhere in the body. FULL NEWS HERE
Another article on the same issue is published in J of Perio Res june 2008 issue Title "Cementum–periodontal ligament complex regeneration using the cell sheet technique" The article concludes
that the multilayered temperature-responsive culture system can be used as a novel strategy for periodontal regeneration. The human periodontal ligament cell sheet technique may be applicable for regeneration of the clinical periodontal ligament–cementum complex. Read full details here
A quantitative analysis of coconut water: a new storage media for avulsed teeth in Triple O Feb 2008 issue
Velayutham Gopikrishna,Toby Thomas,Deivanayagam Kandaswamy from MeenakshiAmmal Dental college, Chennai
Objective The purpose of this study was to use a Collagenase-Dispase assay to investigate the potential of a new storage media, coconut water, in maintaining viable periodontal ligament (PDL) cells on simulated avulsed teeth.
Study design Fifty freshly extracted human teeth were divided into 3 experimental groups and 2 control groups. The positive and negative controls corresponded to 0 minutes and an 8-hour dry time, respectively. The experimental teeth were stored dry for 30 minutes and then immersed in 1 of the 3 media: coconut water (CW), Hank’s balanced salt solution (HBSS), and milk. The teeth were then treated with Dispase grade II and Collagenase for 30 minutes. The number of viable PDL cells were counted with a hemocytometer and analyzed.
Results Statistical analysis demonstrated that CW kept significantly more PDL cells viable compared to either HBSS or milk.
Conclusion Within the parameters of this study, it appears that CW may be better alternative to HBSS or milk in terms of maintaining PDL cell viability after avulsion and storage.
New Delhi, April 3,2008 (IANS) India is setting up 60 new medical colleges and 225 nursing colleges in public-private partnership to tide over its current acute shortage of doctors, nurses, dentists and paramedics, a Planning Commission report has said.
It also said that the 'only way' to meet the crunch is to open the medical education sector 'completely for private sector participation and companies being allowed to establish medical and dental colleges just as they have been allowed to open nursing colleges'.
The report, released Wednesday by Planning Commission Deputy Chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia, said that India faces a shortage of about 600,000 doctors, one million nurses, 200,000 dental surgeons and large numbers of paramedical staff.
Currently, professional colleges churn out about 30,000 doctors a year, apart from 20,000 dentists and 45,000 nurses.
Now what is going to happen in India, all villages will get dentists ? NO, what is more likely that cities will have 1 to 10 Ratio of dentist to population. To get more insight on this topic email to gurudental@yahoo.com, write your views also.
For full news HERE
Do attend a Great Dental conference in Bangalore 26-27 July 2008, 25 Great speakers, great Banquet, Great trade fair, very low registration. CLICK HERE to register ONLINE.
Using Periodontal Ligament Regeneration To Save Teeth- Future is exciting
Source: Agnes Berendsen Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Teeth may fall out as a result of inflammation and subsequent destruction of the tissues supporting the teeth. Dutch researcher Agnes Berendsen has investigated a possible solution to this problem. At the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), she has studied the regeneration of the periodontal ligament by use of tissue engineering. The 3D in vitro model she has developed appears to be promising for regenerating periodontal ligament and may also prove valuable for restoring tendons and ligaments elsewhere in the body. FULL NEWS HERE
Another article on the same issue is published in J of Perio Res june 2008 issue Title "Cementum–periodontal ligament complex regeneration using the cell sheet technique" The article concludes
that the multilayered temperature-responsive culture system can be used as a novel strategy for periodontal regeneration. The human periodontal ligament cell sheet technique may be applicable for regeneration of the clinical periodontal ligament–cementum complex. Read full details here
A quantitative analysis of coconut water: a new storage media for avulsed teeth in Triple O Feb 2008 issue
Velayutham Gopikrishna,Toby Thomas,Deivanayagam Kandaswamy from MeenakshiAmmal Dental college, Chennai
Objective The purpose of this study was to use a Collagenase-Dispase assay to investigate the potential of a new storage media, coconut water, in maintaining viable periodontal ligament (PDL) cells on simulated avulsed teeth.
Study design Fifty freshly extracted human teeth were divided into 3 experimental groups and 2 control groups. The positive and negative controls corresponded to 0 minutes and an 8-hour dry time, respectively. The experimental teeth were stored dry for 30 minutes and then immersed in 1 of the 3 media: coconut water (CW), Hank’s balanced salt solution (HBSS), and milk. The teeth were then treated with Dispase grade II and Collagenase for 30 minutes. The number of viable PDL cells were counted with a hemocytometer and analyzed.
Results Statistical analysis demonstrated that CW kept significantly more PDL cells viable compared to either HBSS or milk.
Conclusion Within the parameters of this study, it appears that CW may be better alternative to HBSS or milk in terms of maintaining PDL cell viability after avulsion and storage.
posted by Healthmantra at
12:17 AM
1 Comments:
Hi,
the 1st post about more dentists and doctors needed in india is not really correct - if you look ONLY at the PRIVATE healthcare sector. there is certainly no great shortage of healthcare professionals in the private sector, maybe there is, but not a huge deal. in the PUBLIC sector, there is certainly a HUGE NEED, as most of the patients in the RURAL areas are POOR, and cannot afford to pay for healthcare even if the service is there, and also, the service provider cannot provide good healthcare at very very low charges which can be paid by these por people. So unless the Govt is prepared to step in and employ huge numbers of healthcare professionals in the rural sector, any number of new private colleges will not serve any useful practice except to make cut-throat competition, and make the whole private sector unviable and unworkable, as charges will be so low, that quality cannot be provided. just my humble opinion & food for thought.
dr viji
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