Have a look at these two slides...I don't need to write paragraphs...Its self explanatory!

Signing petitions by one hand, and selling our skills by the other! Wake up dear Dental surgeons!

After a long day of events today, I was finally home a while back. I prepared my tea, sat with my phone and I was just browsing through my Facebook page. Well, to my surprise at least three out of every ten posts on my page were about advertisements on “Skill enhancement courses in Dentistry”. Course by a certified specialist said one and hurry up for early bird registration said the other! With various permutation and combination, some offering free kits, to some providing a free lecture on Practice management, there is no stone that is left unturned for getting students to attend the skill enhancement programs! This is being done by the same all of us from the dental fraternity, who otherwise regret the opening of too many private colleges which offer MDS seats, who otherwise sign petitions online for increasing the basic pay for dental graduates, and who otherwise realize that there is an overall fall in the quality of practice despite the rise in the number of dentists! Of cour...

In which hurry are we when we operate? And why?

The images that I have put are that of a mandibular third molar which was extracted by a general dentist, and an anterior root canal which was access opened by an endodontist. I witnessed the first at a clinic where I went to enquire for consultations, and the second was forwarded to me for an opinion regarding the treatment plan. To my knowledge, both the operating dentists of the independent images are very good at their work. If some of you are still wondering what’s with that extracted tooth? Then well, it does have a roughly 2-3mms of apical segment broken from one root, and the marginal gingiva is attached to the tooth on its proximal and buccal aspect. And with the radiograph! I am sure many of you from the other specialties would be gasping and thinking, wow! I am indeed better than the endodontists! But my point to put these here is to make you aware that good practitioners too may create blunders when in hurry! While at the clinic for consultation where this extra...

Dentistry! Where are we heading!

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