Our Projects

Most of our programs have been in collaboration/assistance of government bodies or with Colgate palmolive.

 

·        School Dental Health Program: So far  155000 kids aged 6-12 years have been covered..

·        Teachers training program:1500 primary school teachers have been trained to impart dental health education to children

  • Healthcare workers dental health education program: Plan to train and educate 3000 healthworkers

·        Charity dental clinic: 4500 patients have received treatment, 25 patients are treated on average day.

·        Consumer Healthcare Education Network: For past 3 years conducting consumer awareness programs and celebrating World Consumer Day on 15 March each year.

  • Free denture Program: 300 old patients have been given full dentures.

·        Website for public and doctors education: Launched in 1999, has 12000 visitors each month and millions of hits.

·       Institute of Clinical Dentstry and Research

·        Indian Institute for Evidence Based Healthcare:  Workshop for 50 government doctors and 400 practicing dentists in India and Nepal. Brought Free access to Cochrane library to Indian Doctors.

·        Academy for Reiki Training and Healing: Several public free healing camps conducted.

·        Free dental filling program for village children

·        Institute of Dental technology to train unemployed youth.

·        Digital dissertation foundation to promote better research.

·        Center for Oral Implantology.

  •   Indian Academy for Rational Use of Drugs: Several workshops and lectures for improving awareness. Research is underway to assess impact.

·        Publications: Hundreds of articles for educating medical and dental professionals. Our leading publication Your Practice Builder was published in print for 4 years is now only published on web. Two books, one on dentistry and one on Reiki also were published.

 

Past

  • Conducted study to compare conventional tooth brushing with use of traditional mango leaf (for oral hygiene) South Karnataka subjects. E-mail to get a copy of the published article on this subject.
  • Conducted a survey to assess the needs for continuing education, among general dental practitioners.
  • Started a newsletter to cater to continuing education needs of GDP's, titled "Your Practice Builder" which is presently in the eight issue, over 20,000 copies mailed. It’s a quarterly publication.

  • Published a book "Restorative dentistry in daily practice- a guide to the use of dental amalgam, composites resins and glass ionomers". See photo
  • Visited Halmstad, Sweden to study the implementation of dental preventive programs and took guidance from Dr. Lars Petersson.
  • Conducted a school dental health checkup and education program for 25,000 school children of Belgaum. See photograph.

  • Lectured to District health workers and guided them regarding dental disease prevention.
  • Conducted a continuing education program at Dental College, Bagalkot on tooth bleaching, diastema closure and class IV restorations.
  • Conducted a dental checkup camp for children of Benson's school at Yamanapur. village.
  • Lectured on "Internet and health" to two engineering colleges and St. Paul school, Nov. Dec. 1998

  • Conducted "Teachers training Program" regarding oral health on 6 and 7th Jan.1998, for 300 teachers from 145 primary schools of Belgaum. See photo

 

 

 

 

  • Working to create low cost caries prevention models suitable for India. These will be tested and most effective ones will be recommended to be implemented at national level.
  • Seeking support to establish a Research center for community programs and for evaluation of dental materials used in India.
  • Seeking support for a mobile dental clinic to give dental treatment to poor children in villages.
  • Please donate used/new equipments for our charitable clinic/field work or our research Lab. Please e mail us and we shall work with you for shipping etc