HEALTH

‘Good teeth, health are interrelated’
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Nov 24 — The Haryana Governor Babu Parmanand here today urged NGO’s, public and private sectors and industrialists, to make available adequate funds to promote research activities in the country and identify problems rather than depend on the help from outside the country.

The governor, while speaking at the inauguration of XXVIII Congress of the Indian Prosthodontic Society (IPS) this evening at the CII, emphasised that society and the government have to provide adequate basic facilities to facilitate research activities.

He hoped that the prosthodontics conference, being held on the theme of “in the light of nature”, would help the dentists in making significant contribution by providing tooth structures closest to the natural one in the aesthetics and which also perform all the natural functions.

Stressing on the fact that health of a person depends on the quality of his teeth, he said that effective chewing helps digestion which is the core factor necessary to sustain Pranas and ultimately life.

Congratulating the IPS for organising the conference in Chandigarh, Babu Parmanand said that it was reflective of the fact that the city was gaining importance in the northern region as being the scientific hub centre. The three-day conference formally begins tomorrow.

Prosthodontics is the branch of dentistry which primarily deals with the replacement of missing teeth and their adjacent parts by a prosthesis which can be a complete or partial denture, a fixed bridge or an implant supported denture. Prosthodontics is also involved in reshaping, restructuring, recountouring the badly mutilated teeth by using ceramics and composite , as well as other synthetic material to restore the lost teeth.

The branch is specifically gaining significance with the changing food habits, especially among the younger generation, where the upper part of the tooth decays and is often destroyed. A prosthodontics can restore the tooth by reconstructing the crown on the root or the bone which is natural in shape.

Plan for Pulse Polio drive
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Nov 24 — Under the nationwide Pulse Polio Immunisation Campaign 2000-2001, the Chandigarh Administration will immunise 1,15,236 children under the age of five against polio on December 10, 2000, and January 21, 2001.

The Director for Family Welfare, Dr M.P. Minocha, said the Administration would set up 414 fixed booths and constitute 15 mobile teams for carrying out the drive in the UT. The mobile teams will cater to distant villages like Kaimbwala and those in the Nepli forest areas.

Each sector will have four fixed booths, besides immunisation centers in government and the other schools. There will be 46 area and sector supervisors who will visit slum-dwellers and labourers working in the sector.

Booths will also be set up at various points of entry to the city. These include the barriers at Mani Majra, Zirakpur and SAS Nagar, besides the ISBT, the airport and the railway station. A special booth will be set up at The Tribune Chowk. A booth will also be set up inside the Burial jail.

SPORT

Chess tourney
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, Nov 24 — The Chandigarh (under-25) Chess Championship 2000 started today at St Xavier’s Senior Secondary School Sector-44, here. This championship is being conducted by the Chandigarh Chess Association to select a team of two to represent Chandigarh in the nationals being held at Bangalore in December 2000.

At the end of the third round Kanwar Sandeep Singh, Nitin and Vipan Negi were leading with 3 points each.

Points position at the end of the third round:-

3 points:- Kanwar Sandeep Singh, Nitin, Vipan Negi.

2 points:- Rupudaman Singh, Mohit Malhotra, Sanjeev Biswas, Rohit Chodha, Anmol Razdan, Anup Gupta, Chetan Vikas, Madhusheel Arora, Pankaj Kumar Tiwari.

1½ points:- Rajeev Rajput, Praveen Bhalla.

1 point:- Anmol Bhagat, Jatin Kaushal, Praveen K. Goyal, Nishant Seth, Ranjit S. Budwal Manpreet Singh, Abhishek Suri, Ritesh Jain, Jagpreet Singh.

Zero:- Prince Deep, Arjun Mendhi.

Inter-varsity football:
Punjabi University, Patiala, outplayed MD University, Rohtak by 6-2, while GND University, Amritsar, drew with Panjab University, Chandigarh at 2-2 in the North Zone Inter-Varsity Football (men) tournament, played on league basis at PU grounds today.

Tomorrow MDU will play GND Varsity, while PU Chandigarh to take on PU Patiala.

Inter-college cricket:
SD College, Sector 32, defeated Government College, Sector 11 by ten wickets in the UT Inter-college Cricket Tournament being played here today at the Sector 16 cricket stadium.