Govt may adopt stringent law to regularize clinics
The dentist practicing in a one-room set-up across the road or the neighborhood doctor who doles out medicines for fever and chills may be covered under a Central law soon. The Directorate of Health Services (DHS), Delhi Government, is mulling the implementation of Clinical Establishments Act 2010, to regularize clinics and diagnostic centres across the capital. The existing law, Delhi Nursing Homes Registration Act, 1953, covers only 24X7 nursing and hospitals which deal in the allopathic system of medicine. MORE HERE
Uniformity in dental licensure in USA coming soon
Dental and hygiene students who take the American Dental Licensing Examination (ADLEX) will be able to apply for licenses in 42 U.S. states in 2013, following a new alliance with the Southern Regional Testing Agency (SRTA).
The addition of SRTA to the American Board of Dental Examiners (ADEX) means that 34 dental schools and 78 dental hygiene schools are participating in the ADLEX, with results accepted for licensure in 42 states beginning next year, ADEX President Bruce Barrette, DDS, told DrBicuspid.com.
The alliance represents a step toward the creation of a uniform national exam, Dr. Barrette said.
The Florida Board of Dentistry recently voted to switch to the ADLEX, joining the majority of states with reciprocal agreements that allow out-of-state dentists to practice there. LINK
Dentist beaten in Nepal
A dentist in Itahari today had to receive a nasty dose of hard luck, as relatives of a minor girl subjected him to a tooth for a tooth, by thrashing him mercilessly.
Father of Garima Bhandari (7), Shyam Bhandari, and his relatives ruthlessly beat up Dr Krishna Nepal of Suswyastha Dental Hospital, accusing him of slapping the minor girl while she was under his observation.
Garima was admitted to the hospital after she broke one of her teeth while playing.
The father accused the dentist and other health workers of ‘meting out physical torture’ to her daughter. “Dr Nepal slapped my daughter on her cheek,” said Bhandari. MORE
How to live long and stay healthy-read SMILE updates
LONDON: Want to live a long and healthy life? Make sure that you read a newspaper everyday, watch the TV bulletin or browse the internet for news, say researchers.
A new study by Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome has found that people who keep themselves abreast of current affairs are more health-conscious , and as a result they would live longer.
In the study, involving 1,000 people, the researchers found that those who were most exposed to newspaper, TV and the internet had healthier diets than those who were less well informed, the Daily Mail reported. LINK
New Dental clinic chain and their pricing
Mydentist is a holistic dental care centre that enables proactive care for your teeth in a friendly and affordable way.
Right from check-ups to a standardized treatments, Mydentist believes in transparency of the processes and ethical treatments. We will make sure your teeth get the attention they deserve and assist you to keep them in the pink of health. They put up a booth few days back at Mumbai marathan and have been airing commercials on Radio mirchi. LINK
Interesting part is that their pricing is also put online LINK and you can expect more chains to come up, see the business release given below
India Dental market ripe for Dental clinic Chain
Another area where Frost & Sullivan identifies opportunity is in the corporate dental chain segment. There is dearth of corporate dental care players in India that leverage their brand at a national level especially, in metros, tier I (Ahmedabad, Pune, Hyderabad) and tier II (Surat, Chandigarh, Vizag) cities. Accessibility plays a major differentiating factor between the single doctor driven dental clinics and the corporate chain; as patients do not travel beyond a point for dental treatment. Nearly 95 percent of the market in India is owned and managed by single-doctor dentists. Hence, it is important for corporate dental chain players to make their presence felt and work on an expansion plan. Some of the healthcare groups have identified this opportunity and are moving in this direction. MORE
Colgate loses toothbrush market share to Oral-B
P&G has long been speculated to launch its toothpaste Crest here
Colgate-Palmolive (India), the maker of flagship brand Colgate toothpaste, is losing ground in the toothbrush segment in value terms to its US-based rival Procter & Gamble’s (P&G) Oral-B,
The market share of Colgate toothbrush has declined by 300 basis points (100 basis points (bps) is equal 1 per cent) and 60 bps in the past 24 and 12 months, respectively to P&G’s Oral-B, according to data from market research firm Nielsen. LINK
Nanocrystals Make Dentures Shine
Now Prof. Rüssel and his colleagues of the Otto-Schott-Institute for Glass Chemistry succeeded in producing a new kind of glass ceramic with a nanocrystalline structure, which seems to be well suited to be used in dentistry due to their high strength and its optical characteristics. The glass chemists of Jena University recently published their research results in the online-edition of the science magazine Journal of Biomedical Materials Research.
Materials, to be considered as dentures are not supposed to be optically different from natural teeth. At the same time not only the right colour shade is important. “The enamel is partly translucent, which the ceramic is also supposed to be,” Prof. Rüssel says. LINK
Hand held X ray machines- Are they Safe ?
Dental care providers and their patients need not worry about radiation exposure when using the Nomad handheld intraoral xray device (Aribex), according to a new study in Health Physics (February 2012, Vol. 102:2, pp. 137-142).
More than 6,000 handheld intraoral x-ray units are in use today in the U.S. in dental radiography, veterinary medicine, forensic, military, and research applications, according to the study authors, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and DIQUAD, a company that offers dental x-ray quality and dose evaluation services. More Here
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