Dentist murdered, Best sealer, Dentist poisoned, Sex ratio, Non medico in MCI ? , Dentist found murdered in UP Muzaffarnagar: A Roorkee-based dentist was found murdered at Dhamat village under Purkazi police station in the district here, police said. Dr Vishesh Kumar (30) was abducted and found murdered yesterday after he went missing from Roorkee on the same day, police said. Police have registered a case against two persons and a probe is on. .NEWSLINK Which is the best endodontic sealer for root canal Bacteria living in the root canal system are the enemy in the course of successful endodontic therapy. Sealers are meant to find this, but no proper evaluation has been done so far. Now a team of German researchers has compared the antibacterial effect of eight different sealers and two temporary sealers on three endodontologically detectable species of bacteria and found that Hermetic comes out on top (Dental Materials, May 2013, Vol. 29:5, pp. 542-549). The use of Hermetic as a sealer in refractory cases of endodontic therapy could possibly reduce the failure rate. Whether the antibacterial activity of the sealers found in this in vitro study will lead to higher success rates…MORE HERE STILL struggling with ENDO, come and learn with great Masters ….CLICK HERE Nurse poisons dentist boss with mercury Boss of a dental nurse was admitted to hospital and suffered from seizures three days after the nurse tried to poison her at the surgery, a court heard today. Ravinder Kaur, 34, is charged with administering a “poison or noxious substance with intent” after she allegedly put mercury amalgam – a substance used in dental fillings – into a cup of coffee she made for her Dentist boss Laura Knowles…NEWSLINK PIL for 50 percent non-doctors in medical councils Kolkata, April 27 (IANS) To make medical councils in India “unbiased” and “corruption-free”, NGO People For Better Treatment (PBT) will file a public interest litigation (PIL) to get non-doctors into the council. “Every medical board in the US has 50 percent non-doctors as members. In India, it is all a doctor’s group. We are planning to bring a PIL soon on this,” PBT president Kunal Saha said here Saturday. According to the US-based doctor, corruption in the medical fraternity can be prevented if India takes up initiatives that ensure professionals other than doctors are allowed to be a part of medical groups. NEWSLINK MDS seat sale scam - MCI asks CBI to start probe .. Sex ratio among dental fraternity There are now more women than men in the U.S. who are oral and maxillofacial surgeons, orthodontists, and prosthodontists, a new survey shows. The CareerBuilder/Economic Modeling Specialists survey revealed that four of the 15 top-paying jobs in the U.S. are now dominated by women, according to story by United Press International. Women comprise some 57% of the oral and maxillofacial surgeons, 62% of the prosthodontists, and 57% of the orthodontists, the survey found. In addition, nearly half of all U.S. dentists (49%) are women. MCI de-rosters doc names after they appear in ad The Medical Council of India has taken action against a group of physicians who reportedly appeared in an advertisement released by the hospital they were working in. It decided to remove their names from the Indian Medical Register/State Medical Register for 15 days for transgressing the Code of Medical Ethics. LINK Research to Increase the Success Rate of Tooth Implants Elderly or people with osteoporosis, smokers, diabetics or people who have had cancer are sometimes not eligible to receive dental implants as their bones are unable to correctly integrate the new prostheses which replace the root. Researchers at the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) in Castellón have developed an implant coating with a novel biodegradable material aimed at people with bone deficit. It will also increase the overall success rate of implants through an enhanced biocompatibility and reduce the time of osseointegration or bone integration. MORE HERE Hepatitis C found in Irish dental tourists rish scientists have identified a number of hepatitis C cases among “health tourists” who had dental work or cosmetic surgery carried out overseas, as well as among people receiving tattoos using unhygienic equipment. Cases of hepatitis C have been reported among people who travelled to Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and South Africa for dental treatment, according to Prof Suzanne Norris, consultant hepatologist at St James’s Hospital. MORE HERE MORE POPULAR POSTS…. CANADA dentist goes bankrupt Not a single teacher at privately run dental college- DCI member demanded 5 crore from Dental college , http://bit.ly/10TWxHa

Dentist murdered, Best sealer, Dentist poisoned, Sex ratio, Non medico in MCI ? , Dentist found murdered in UP Muzaffarnagar: A Roorkee-based dentist was found murdered at Dhamat village under Purkazi police station in the district here, police said. Dr Vishesh Kumar (30) was abducted and found murdered yesterday after he went missing from Roorkee on the same day, police said. Police have registered a case against two persons and a probe is on. .NEWSLINK Which is the best endodontic sealer for root canal Bacteria living in the root canal system are the enemy in the course of successful endodontic therapy. Sealers are meant to find this, but no proper evaluation has been done so far. Now a team of German researchers has compared the antibacterial effect of eight different sealers and two temporary sealers on three endodontologically detectable species of bacteria and found that Hermetic comes out on top (Dental Materials, May 2013, Vol. 29:5, pp. 542-549). The use of Hermetic as a sealer in refractory cases of endodontic therapy could possibly reduce the failure rate. Whether the antibacterial activity of the sealers found in this in vitro study will lead to higher success rates…MORE HERE STILL struggling with ENDO, come and learn with great Masters ….CLICK HERE Nurse poisons dentist boss with mercury Boss of a dental nurse was admitted to hospital and suffered from seizures three days after the nurse tried to poison her at the surgery, a court heard today. Ravinder Kaur, 34, is charged with administering a “poison or noxious substance with intent” after she allegedly put mercury amalgam – a substance used in dental fillings – into a cup of coffee she made for her Dentist boss Laura Knowles…NEWSLINK PIL for 50 percent non-doctors in medical councils Kolkata, April 27 (IANS) To make medical councils in India “unbiased” and “corruption-free”, NGO People For Better Treatment (PBT) will file a public interest litigation (PIL) to get non-doctors into the council. “Every medical board in the US has 50 percent non-doctors as members. In India, it is all a doctor’s group. We are planning to bring a PIL soon on this,” PBT president Kunal Saha said here Saturday. According to the US-based doctor, corruption in the medical fraternity can be prevented if India takes up initiatives that ensure professionals other than doctors are allowed to be a part of medical groups. NEWSLINK MDS seat sale scam - MCI asks CBI to start probe .. Sex ratio among dental fraternity There are now more women than men in the U.S. who are oral and maxillofacial surgeons, orthodontists, and prosthodontists, a new survey shows. The CareerBuilder/Economic Modeling Specialists survey revealed that four of the 15 top-paying jobs in the U.S. are now dominated by women, according to story by United Press International. Women comprise some 57% of the oral and maxillofacial surgeons, 62% of the prosthodontists, and 57% of the orthodontists, the survey found. In addition, nearly half of all U.S. dentists (49%) are women. MCI de-rosters doc names after they appear in ad The Medical Council of India has taken action against a group of physicians who reportedly appeared in an advertisement released by the hospital they were working in. It decided to remove their names from the Indian Medical Register/State Medical Register for 15 days for transgressing the Code of Medical Ethics. LINK Research to Increase the Success Rate of Tooth Implants Elderly or people with osteoporosis, smokers, diabetics or people who have had cancer are sometimes not eligible to receive dental implants as their bones are unable to correctly integrate the new prostheses which replace the root. Researchers at the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) in Castellón have developed an implant coating with a novel biodegradable material aimed at people with bone deficit. It will also increase the overall success rate of implants through an enhanced biocompatibility and reduce the time of osseointegration or bone integration. MORE HERE Hepatitis C found in Irish dental tourists rish scientists have identified a number of hepatitis C cases among “health tourists” who had dental work or cosmetic surgery carried out overseas, as well as among people receiving tattoos using unhygienic equipment. Cases of hepatitis C have been reported among people who travelled to Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and South Africa for dental treatment, according to Prof Suzanne Norris, consultant hepatologist at St James’s Hospital. MORE HERE MORE POPULAR POSTS…. CANADA dentist goes bankrupt Not a single teacher at privately run dental college- DCI member demanded 5 crore from Dental college , http://bit.ly/10TWxHa , via Dental Teach " Daily Dental Info " http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=588123691212184&set=a.579621098729110.1073741845.110664842291407&type=1