Most of our programs have been in collaboration/assistance
of government bodies or with Colgate palmolive.
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School Dental Health Program: So far 155000 kids aged
6-12 years have been covered..
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Teachers training program:1500 primary school teachers have
been trained to impart dental health education to children
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Charity dental clinic: 4500 patients have received treatment, 25 patients are
treated on average day.
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Consumer Healthcare
Education Network: For past 3 years conducting consumer awareness
programs and celebrating World Consumer Day on 15 March each year.
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Website for public and doctors education: Launched in 1999,
has 12000 visitors each month and millions of hits.
· Institute
of Clinical Dentstry and Research
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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.
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Academy for Reiki Training and Healing: Several public free
healing camps conducted.
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Free dental filling program for village children
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Institute of Dental technology to train unemployed youth.
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Digital dissertation foundation to promote better research.
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Center for Oral Implantology.
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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
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