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Extend dental health cover to rural areas: Jacob Chandigarh, November 14 Inaugurating the 5th Congress of Asian Academy of Preventive Dentistry at the PGI, here today he regretted that with hardly any quality dental facilities available in the rural areas, the people had been left at the mercy of quacks. “ Unfortunately, healthcare is confined to the urban areas with the dental chairs being inadequate to meet the minimum requirement ,” he stated. While suggesting that Mobile Dental Vans could be an answer to poor dental health care in the rural areas, he urged the doctors to branch out to the villages rather than confining to cities. He said as per a survey almost 70 per cent of the population was suffering from some or the other oral or dental problem. He said it would be good if PGI could associate itself with the school health scheme in the city to provide fluoride application to children. Over 140 delegates from 13 countries are attending the congress and the 24th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, being organised by the Department of Oral Sciences at PGI. Prof H.S. Chawla, head of the Oral Sciences department, and the President of the Asian Academy of Preventive Dentistry highlighted the importance of preventive dental care, especially when almost 45 per cent of all cancers were oral. PGI Director, Prof S.K. Sharma, and the former Director, Prof I.C. Pathak, were also present at the inaugural function. The academic sessions held today focussed on clinical preventive dentistry and pedodontics, prevention of dental caries and preventive orthodontics.  |
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WHO keen on school health programme Chandigarh, November 14 “Though we are not in a position to provide financial assistance for the health promoting school project in India, WHO would provide all possible technical advice for the effective use of the available resources,” remarked Prof P.E. Peterson, Special Officer Oral Health at WHO headquarters in Switzerland. Prof Peterson, is here to attend the 5th Congress of Asian Academy of Preventive Dentistry being held at the PGI. Prof Peterson said the focus of this project would be to integrate oral health with general health education with the active involvement of schools and community. He said that in recent years there had been an increasing trend of dental caries, with several of the Asian countries failing to establish a preventive programme especially in case of children. Prof Peterson said that the school-linked programme being run in some of the schools in India was dealing with hygiene and dental check-up so that children in need of dental care are identified but not on the preventive aspect, which should be the first and foremost step. As such India and other Asian countries should adopt the health promoting school project, which had brought about very encouraging results in some places, he added. “India with its vastness and diversity would provide experiences of various oral health programmes in different parts of the country which will help the WHO in evaluation and to document the effect of public health programmes. He stressed that it was possible to control oral diseases not through sophisticated service system but on the basis of prevention, health promotion and treatment programme. Prof Peterson said that as per his information the oral health facilities in rural India, where 70 per cent of the population resides were inadequate. “I understand that taking oral health services to the rural sector in India was no mean task as it involved a lot of finances, but the active involvement of the community improvement in lifestyle would certainly help,” he opined. While admitting that there could be side effects of fluoride, if administered in excess, he said the use of toothpaste with fluoride, was the most safe and cost effective
method. He warned that apart from the routine risk factors for oral and dental problems like smoking, use of tobacco and alcohol, the biggest threat was from the acids and hidden sugar in soft drinks, which were being consumed all over the world. He said that these soft drinks, with different brand names were very harmful for teeth as it led to etching and erosion of enamel. He said that this was a major threat which need to be studied and documented. |
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Docs allay fears on dengue SAS Nagar, November 14 Talking to Chandigarh Tribune, the Chief Medical Officer of the Civil Hospital, Phase VI, here, Dr M.S. Bains clearly stated that no case even of suspected dengue has been reported to the Civil Hospital here from anywhere in the township. |
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Chemists’ strike tomorrow Panchkula, November 14 The chemists are protesting against the imposition of sales tax on the maximum retail price ( MRP) of medicines. The Haryana Excise and Taxation Department had issued a public notice on November 1, 2002, announcing its decision to impose sales tax on medicines, besides 32 other items. |
Sandeep Duggal reaches snooker final Chandigarh, November 14 In the quarterfinals, Sandeep beat Vishal Gupta 4-0. Vishal could not match the experience of Sandeep. Sandeep won the first frame 63-41. In the second frame, Duggal was too good for his opponent and won if 56-22. In the third frame, Vishal lead the frame initially but Duggal staged an excellent comeback and won it 45-44. Vishal conceded the fourth frame on coloured balls to Duggal, who won the match 4-0. The final scores were 63-41, 56-22, 45-44 and 67-19 in favour of Sandeep Duggal. In the semifinal match, Duggal did not have any difficulty in beating Ricky Singh 4-0. The final scores were 64-32, 66-23, 65-16 and 55-23 in favour of Sandeep Duggal. Total tennis It was a day of upset at the Mount Carmel Total Tennis Championship here. In the boys u-16 category, top seed, Karan Patnaik, a student of Mount Carmel School, thrashed his opponents in a one-sided affair. He showed his experience and skill to beat Akshit Choudhary of CLTA 8-2. But in the quarterfinal match under the same category, second seed Mandeep Yadav lost to unseeded Varun Chandra, a student of Vivek High School. At one stage Varun Chandra was leading 7-3 with three match points but Mandeep came back strongly and saved five match points and levelled the score 7-7. The score finally went in favour of Varun Chandra 8-7 (9-7). In the semifinal, Varun beat Raghav Deep of Jalandhar 8-2 to enter into the finals. In the boys u-10 semifinals, top seed Digvijay Singh, a student of St Stephen’s School, thrashed his opponents Jai Vardhan Gupta 8-0 in a one-sided match. But in the other semifinal, second seed Garry S. Amore was upset by Gurinder Singh. Gurinder won six games in a row to win the match 8-2. Boys (u-14) quarterfinal: Yuvresh Bansal b Anant Vidur Puri 7-3; Raghav Deep b Akshit Chaudhary 7-3. Boys (u-16) quarterfinal: Akshit Chaudhary b Raghav Deep 7-3; Ulplaksh Vashisht b Parul Verma 7-4; Varun Chandra b Mandeep Yadav 7-6 (9-7). Boys (u-14) semifinal: Yuvresh Bansal b Ulplaksh Vashisht 8-5; Varun Chandra b Raghav Deep 8-2. Boys (u-16) semifinal: Karan Patnaik b Akshit Chaudhary 8-2. Boys (u-10) semifinal: Digvijay Singh b Jaivardhan Gupta 8-0; Gurinder Singh b Garry S. Amour 8-2. Girls (u-16) semifinal: Isha Toor b Shaleen Chandra 7-0. Girls (u-12) semifinal: Inayat Khosla b Jaanesh Kaur 7-1; Ankita Singh b Shaleen Chandra 7-0. Satluj tennis The second Satluj Open Tennis Tournament will be held on November 16 and 17 at Satluj Public School, Sector 4, Panchkula. The closing date for registration is November 15. Mr Sidhu, Head of Physical Education Department, of the school, can be contacted for further details. |
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