HEALTH

‘Xive’ a boon for dentists, patients
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, March 1
“Xive”, a new implant system to be introduced in the country for the first time, will bring immediate and safe implantation”, said Dr Jan Keilhorn, Oral Surgeon, Reg. Board Specialist of Implantology, Oppenheim, Germany. Dr Keilhorn is on a four-day visit to the city to introduce the technique to the dental surgeons here.

In an interview with Ludhiana Tribune here today, Dr Keilhorn stressed that to make the technology successful, one had to follow a standard procedure protocol, a kind of check-list. He said ‘Xive’ was the most contemporary, revolutionary and safe implantology technique, in which patients would be able to get an implant-supported denture within one day or one week and in cases of a tooth fracture, the damaged tooth could be replaced within an hour.

Dr Vikram Prabhakar, Oralmaxillofacial Surgeon, said dental implantology was a necessary and very important part of modern treatments. Started more than two decades ago, implantology nowadays represented a safe, predictable and very successful therapy, he said.

Dr Kielhorn said: “Today the grinding down of unharmed teeth just to support bridges or dentures is considered to be an injury to the patient. Furthermore, elderly people with high bone athrophy, not being able to wear any kind of dentures, suffer both mentally and physically from this loss of life quality. This also results in an insufficient nutrition, speeding up the ageing process”.

Dr Kielhorn maintained that most failures and the following bad reputation of implants derive from a lack of anatomical knowledge, not following the standard procedure protocol (taking of shortcuts) or buying implant kits without undergoing a special training programme. He said: “My aim is to establish student education and a postgraduate certification programme to ensure that implantology in India is able to compete with international standards”.

Education camp on TB
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, March 1
A health education camp was held at Dr B.R.Ambedkar Nagar, a slum area adjoining Model Town, under the Revised National TB Control Programme today. Dr Anil Verma, District TB Officer, while addressing the participants said patients who had been suffering from cough for more than three weeks should undergo test for sputum so that the disease could be detected and the patient was given treatment at the earliest.

Dr Verma said there were 13 microscopy centers in the city where sputum examination was being done free of cost. To provide free anti-TB medicine to the patients, there were 299 directly observed treatment (DOT) centers in the city. “There is one DOT centre for every 5,000 people”, added Dr Verma.

Dr Damandeep said if a patient remained untreated, he could infect 10-15 people in a year. Dr Avtar and Dr Deol asked people to motivate suspected patients for TB to get themselves examined so that they could get free anti-TB medicines. The experts also laid emphasis on completing the treatment.

SPORTS

Rs 30,000 aid for college development
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, March 1
The eighth annual athletics meet of Shanti Tara College was organised yesterday at Ahmedgarh. The meet was declared open by the general secretary of the college, Mr Arvind Malhotra. Mr Tej Prakash Singh, Transport Minister, Punjab, was the chief guest.

Mr Tej Prakash Singh gave a sum of Rs 30,000 for the development of the college.

The results: 1500m (boys): Hargej Singh 1, Charanjeet Singh 2, Karamjeet Singh 3.Long jump (boys) : Amritpal Singh 1, Sakandar Singh 2, Gurpreet Singh 3, Shot put (boys): Amritpal Singh 1, Raman Kaushal 2, Jatinderpal Singh 3. Discus throw (girls): Sukhdeep Kaur 1, Harmanjot Kaur 2, Jagdeep Kaur 3. 100m (boys): Amandeep Garg 1, Sikander Singh 2, Bachittar Singh 3. High jump (boys): Hargej Singh 1, Sikander Singh 2, Gurpreet Singh 3. Shot put (girls): Amandeep Kaur 1, Raj Kaur Benipal 2, Sandeep Kaur 3. 400m (boys) : Amandeep Garg 1, Hargej Singh 2, Anil Kumar 3. 200m(girls): Harmanjot Kaur 1, Kismat Kaur 2, Gurmeet Kaur 3. Long jump (girls): Raj Benipal Kaur 1, Amandeep Kaur 2, Harmanjot Kaur 3. Javelin throw (boys): Hargej Singh 1, Simrajeet Singh 2, Manpreet Singh 3. 200M (boys): Bachittar Singh 1, Amandeep Garg 2, Hargej Singh 3. Chatti race (girls): Sarabjeet Kaur 1, Kulwinder Kaur 2, Hardeep Kaur 3. Three legged ra (girls): Harmanjot Kaur and Raj Kaur Benipal 1, Neha and Taranpreet Kaur 2, Sarabjeet Kaur and Hardeep Kaur 3.Three legged race (boys): Karamjeet and Harpreet 1, Rajbir and Jaskaran Singh 2, Varnder and Khushpreet Singh 3. Javelin throw (girls): Harmanjot Kaur 1, Hartej Kaur 2, Jagdeep Kaur 3. 100m (girls): Neha 1, Harmanjot Kaur 2, Raj Kumar Benipal 3. 100m (boys): Amandeep Garg 1, Sikander Singh 2, Bachittar Singh 3. Discus throw (boys): Jatinder Pal Singh 1, Amandeep Garg 2, Simarjit Singh 3. Slow cycle race (boys): Charanpreet Singh 1, Pardeep Singh 2, Anil Kumar 3. 400m (girls): Raj Kaur Benipal 1, Sukhdeep Kaur 2, Harmanjot Kaur 3.