Dental Fraud and Award, PGI Chandigarh prof Jailed
Dental patient who died awarded $11M
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — The family of a New Jersey man who died hours after having his wisdom teeth removed has won more than $11 million in damages.
A Middlesex County jury determined Friday that George Flugrad, a Perth Amboy oral surgeon, committed medical malpractice when he failed to get clearance from Francis Keller's doctor to operate on the 21-year-old in 2005.
Keller told Flugrad he had a hereditary condition that caused his immune system to react to any trauma to his face or hands by swelling. And that condition caused Keller's throat, face and hands to swell and his airway to slowly close following the surgery.
The lawsuit named Flugrad and Keller's family dentist, John Madaris of Woodbridge. The two had blamed each other, but Madaris was cleared by the jury.
Prof & Head of PGI, Chandigarh, Jailed
Chandigarh Former head of the PGI Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery Department, Professor R S Dhaliwal, was sentenced to five years of imprisonment with a fine of Rs 70,000 for purchasing artificial heart valves at exorbitant rates in connivance with a chemist. The chemist Sat Pal Singla, owner of Paul Medical Hall in Sector 11, was sentenced to two years of imprisonment and fined Rs 50,000. The judgment was pronounced by Justice Jagdeep Jain of the special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation at the district court complex on Tuesday. More
Truth about Self Ligating Brackets
Aust Dent J Volume 54, Issue 1, 2009.
The current prospective evidence regarding duration of treatment indicates that no clinically significant difference exists between conventional brackets and self-ligating brackets. Self-ligating brackets have similar effects on archform to conventional brackets. Self-ligating brackets offer modest time savings when tying and untying compared with conventional brackets but the time saving varies with the particular design of the SL bracket used. Currently, the evidence is limited and more prospective clinical trials using identical wire sequences and mechanics are required.
Man accused of $36,000 dental fraud
Tod Schaffer broke his tooth on a piece of plastic in a salad at a Boston restaurant in October 2000. Schaffer's dentist determined that he needed a root canal on his front right tooth and handed him an estimate for how much the work would cost.
Schaffer never fixed the tooth, according to the state Attorney General's office. Instead, the Brookline man is accused of visiting 21 other chain restaurants in Boston over four years, armed with a small rock or a piece of glass that he slipped into salads. Schaffer would allegedly tell a waiter that he broke his tooth and come back with the estimate from the dentist, which had been falsified with a new date. The insurance companies of restaurants paid out 10 times, prosecutors allege, giving Schaffer a total of $36,000. More
Beware ! Your mobile phone is spreading infections
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Mobile phones used by hospital healthcare workers are often contaminated with germs, including those that can causes illness in hospitalized patients, a Turkish research team reports.
Dr. Fatma Ulger and others at Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, swabbed the dominant hand and the mobile phones of 200 doctors, nurses, and other healthcare staff working in intensive care units and operating rooms.
They found that 95 percent of telephones were contaminated, often with more than one type of microbe, and often with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Potentially serious infectious bugs such as staphylococci were isolated from phones in intensive care units, the team reports in the online BMC journal Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials.
When the study participants were questioned, 90 percent said they never cleaned their mobile phones. The investigators conclude that mobile phones "may facilitate transmission of bacterial isolates from patient to patient in wards or hospitals."
They recommend routine decontamination of mobile phones with alcohol-containing disinfectants.
Colgate India, New Oral Health Team Takes Charge
Mr Mahender Ashtekar has moved on and now new oral health team has taken charge under stewardship of Mr Sandeep Saxena, letters have been mailed to all IDA members regarding whom to contact for future programs and activities.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — The family of a New Jersey man who died hours after having his wisdom teeth removed has won more than $11 million in damages.
A Middlesex County jury determined Friday that George Flugrad, a Perth Amboy oral surgeon, committed medical malpractice when he failed to get clearance from Francis Keller's doctor to operate on the 21-year-old in 2005.
Keller told Flugrad he had a hereditary condition that caused his immune system to react to any trauma to his face or hands by swelling. And that condition caused Keller's throat, face and hands to swell and his airway to slowly close following the surgery.
The lawsuit named Flugrad and Keller's family dentist, John Madaris of Woodbridge. The two had blamed each other, but Madaris was cleared by the jury.
Prof & Head of PGI, Chandigarh, Jailed
Chandigarh Former head of the PGI Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery Department, Professor R S Dhaliwal, was sentenced to five years of imprisonment with a fine of Rs 70,000 for purchasing artificial heart valves at exorbitant rates in connivance with a chemist. The chemist Sat Pal Singla, owner of Paul Medical Hall in Sector 11, was sentenced to two years of imprisonment and fined Rs 50,000. The judgment was pronounced by Justice Jagdeep Jain of the special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation at the district court complex on Tuesday. More
Truth about Self Ligating Brackets
Aust Dent J Volume 54, Issue 1, 2009.
The current prospective evidence regarding duration of treatment indicates that no clinically significant difference exists between conventional brackets and self-ligating brackets. Self-ligating brackets have similar effects on archform to conventional brackets. Self-ligating brackets offer modest time savings when tying and untying compared with conventional brackets but the time saving varies with the particular design of the SL bracket used. Currently, the evidence is limited and more prospective clinical trials using identical wire sequences and mechanics are required.
Man accused of $36,000 dental fraud
Tod Schaffer broke his tooth on a piece of plastic in a salad at a Boston restaurant in October 2000. Schaffer's dentist determined that he needed a root canal on his front right tooth and handed him an estimate for how much the work would cost.
Schaffer never fixed the tooth, according to the state Attorney General's office. Instead, the Brookline man is accused of visiting 21 other chain restaurants in Boston over four years, armed with a small rock or a piece of glass that he slipped into salads. Schaffer would allegedly tell a waiter that he broke his tooth and come back with the estimate from the dentist, which had been falsified with a new date. The insurance companies of restaurants paid out 10 times, prosecutors allege, giving Schaffer a total of $36,000. More
Beware ! Your mobile phone is spreading infections
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Mobile phones used by hospital healthcare workers are often contaminated with germs, including those that can causes illness in hospitalized patients, a Turkish research team reports.
Dr. Fatma Ulger and others at Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, swabbed the dominant hand and the mobile phones of 200 doctors, nurses, and other healthcare staff working in intensive care units and operating rooms.
They found that 95 percent of telephones were contaminated, often with more than one type of microbe, and often with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Potentially serious infectious bugs such as staphylococci were isolated from phones in intensive care units, the team reports in the online BMC journal Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials.
When the study participants were questioned, 90 percent said they never cleaned their mobile phones. The investigators conclude that mobile phones "may facilitate transmission of bacterial isolates from patient to patient in wards or hospitals."
They recommend routine decontamination of mobile phones with alcohol-containing disinfectants.
Colgate India, New Oral Health Team Takes Charge
Mr Mahender Ashtekar has moved on and now new oral health team has taken charge under stewardship of Mr Sandeep Saxena, letters have been mailed to all IDA members regarding whom to contact for future programs and activities.
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