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HEALTH

Preventive dentistry congress from Nov 14
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 9
With almost 45 per cent of cancers being oral cavity ones, resulting from paan and gutkha chewing, reverse smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, the fifth congress of the Asian Academy of Preventive Dentistry, beginning of November 14 at the PGI, will focus on these issues.

“After putting in our bid for holding the congress at Beijing the PGI Dental Department has been given the honour as over 140 foreign and 300 Indian delegates are expected to attend the congress,” said Dr H.S. Chawla, head of the department and Chairman of the Asian Academy of Preventive Dentistry. He said the 24th annual conference of the Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry had been clubbed with the three-day congress.

Dr Chawla said seeing the high incidence of oral cancer, it was important to create awareness among the public. With the theme of the congress being “Complete oral health through prevention” the focus will be on the preventive part. “A public interaction session with experts would be held on November 15 so that people of the region can be made aware about oral cancer, dento facial trauma and dental caries,” he said.

Dr Chawla said in states like Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Jammu and Kashmir, people indulging in reverse smoking were complaining of oral cancer. Apart from this, chilly growers in some of the states, too, were getting oral cancer as they tasted it to check bitterness at the time of plucking.

“However the biggest cause of oral cancer remains gutkha and paan masala. These causes lesions in the mouth which, if unattended, could turn cancerous,” warned Dr Ashok Utreja.

Apart from pre-congress courses on November 13, there will be courses on topics like “Cardiopulmonary cerebral resuscitation”, “Value of evidence in pedodontics and preventive dentistry” and “Endodontics made easy in deciduous teeth”, besides 23 guest lectures, 85 oral presentations and 46 posters.

SPORTS

Big win for SGHM School
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 9
Sri Guru Harkrishan Model School, Sector 38-D, trounced St Stephens Club, Sector 45, by 10 goals to 2, in the subjunior roller hockey first round match, in the Guru Harkrishan Skating Tournament here today.

The day started with heats for speed skating-rink race 1 for both boys and girls of different age groups. Mridul and Rajni Vashishit stood first in the above 14 year category for boys and girls respectively. Mrs Harpreet Kaur, Principal, gave away prizes to the winners.

Results of rink race 1: Under-4 boys: 1. Abhishek Arora, 2. Nihit Rawel, 3. Mandeep Sidhu; Under-4 girls: 1. Richa Tayal, 2. Garima Gupta, 3. Roopam; Boys 4-6 yrs: 1. Aayush Goyal, 2. Arpit Walia, 3. Bhavya Sharda; Girls 4-6 yrs: 1. Arushi, 2. Ashi Goyal, 3. Shreya Bhatia; Boys 6-8 yrs: 1. Shivam Thakur, 2. Satwik Bhatia, 3. Vipin Mohan; Girls 6-8 yrs: 1. Isha Goyal, 2. Nupur Arora, 3. Sanchi; Boys 8-10 yrs: 1. Karandeep Singh, 2. Charanjeev Singh, 3. Sachin Mohan; Girls 8-10 yrs: 1. Naureen Midha, 2. Devanshi Mittal, 3. Nandini Mahajan; Boys 1-12 yrs:- 1. Rohit Bajaj, 2. Bharat Chaudhary, 3. Sahil Goyal; Girls 10-12 yrs:- 1. Jyotika Bhagat, 2. Jeetu Chaudhary, 3. Ria; Boys 12-14 yrs:- 1. Mayank, 2. Peeyush, 3. Ankit Dhariwala; Girls 12-14 yrs:- 1. Harjapjee, 2. Geetika, 3. Chetna; Above 14(boys):- 1. Mridul, 2. Amandeep Singh, 3. Amandeep Gulati; Above 14 (girls): - 1. Rajni Vashishit, 2. Ishika Sharma; Special category: 1. Manpreet, 2. Varun Vaid.

Police gets modern gadgets
Tribune News Service

SAS Nagar, November 9
The SAS Nagar traffic police were issued speed-checking radars and breath analysers, here today. Giving this information, H.S. Bhullar, SP, said the traffic police wanted to make the methods of checking traffic violations more effective and these gadgets would help in making its work easier as well as accurate.

The traffic police challaned 1001 drivers in the past one month for various traffic violations. As many as 280 persons challaned for jumping red lights and more than 200 drivers for driving without helmets.