Department of Public Health Dentistry had conducted a CDE on “Current Research and Community Based Dental Education”, on 13th March 2018. Two International speakers, From University of Kwazulunatal(UKZN), Durban, South Africa, visited the institution and delivered Guest lectures. Dr.Shenuka Singh, the Acting Dean of College of Health Science, gave a brief insight about the health care services in south Africa and highlighted on the Current research projects and PG training at UKZN. This was followed by the Dr.Ilana Moodley, prof. in Community Health Dentistry department gave a lecture on Community Based Dental Education at UKZN. The faculties of Saveetha Dental College and Post Graduates, who were interested in widening their horizon of research participated and benefited from the lectures. The program ended with official meeting of Team from Department of Public Health Dentistry with the International delegates in discussing about potential collaborative activities from research and academic front.
Aesthetic challenges with immmediate implants
On 10th March 2018, Department of Prosthodontics, Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Chennai, organized a webinar on aesthetic challenges in immediate implants by Dr.Suvarna Nene in collaboration with digital gurukul- know your roots. Dr.Suvarna Nene, a GDC graduate, is an eminent practicing implantologist with an experience of 30 years in the same field. There were approximately 80 students who attended the webinar. It was a mind boggling session which gave an insight about importance of aesthtics in immediate implant placement. There was particular emphasis on different ways of temporization and its consequent outcomes. As immediate implant placement is a very upcoming mode of treatment in this fast moving modern era, it has become essential for clinicians to incorporate such prompt and immediate solution in daily practice mainly for the comfort and esthetics of the patient. We hope to inculcate such techniques in our clinical practise. The lecture was refreshing and audience gave positive feedback.
Pterygoid Implants- An Insight
On 10th March, 2018, Department of Prosthodontics in Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals organized a CDE program/ guest lecture on Pterygoid Implants – An Insight. Eminent implantologist Dr. Vivek Gaur was invited as the guest speaker. Dr. Vivek Gaur has completed his PG cert. in advanced implants from Manipal, and diploma in advanced implants from Holland. He is keynote speakers in several cortical osseointegration implant symposiums and is also extensively trained in cortical implants by Dr. (Prof.)Stefen Ihde. The audience consisted of various budding prosthodontists, periodontists, implantologists and also clinicians. There were around 70 delegates. It was a two hour informative lecture with various case presentations which ended with an interactive doubt solving session. The highlight of the lecture was how pterygoid implants can be used in resorbed posterior maxillary arch without undergoing bone grafts and sinus lift procedures. The lecture definitely intrigued all the minds on the advantages and ease of placing pterygoid implants and also motivated the crowd to begin the use of these implants. It was an enlightening lecture which got positive feedback from all the delegates.
Edify- Depratment of Pedodontics
Pedo EDIFY version four, started with a social video on how colors are perceived. This was followed by award distribution to Dr.EMG.Subramanian and Dr.Dhanalakshmi for punctuality and workaholic respectively. Two education videos, one on the Non pharmacologic and Pharmacologic behavior management techniques were played. The Non-pharmocological behavior management techniques were illustrated as a mannequin challenge. The operation theater (OT) protocols were shown in detail, which would help the undergraduates to understand and mimic the same when they enter OT to assist for full mouth rehabilitation. The second video was on drug dosage calculation for children with a brief description on the drug metabolism.
Dr.Sujatha presented the various achievements of the department staff, postgraduate and undergraduate students. The staff of Pedodontics department held responsibilities and made the 39th ISPPD national conference a great success. Our staffs have conducted two Credit courses, two hands-on workshops, three CDE programmes for both undergraduate students and postgraduate students all in less than 10 months’ time. We also conducted the third edition of SPARC- Saveetha’s Pedodontic Advanced Revision Course and had speakers and delegates from various parts of South India. The staffs of Department of Pedodontics have given 17 guest lectures in various forums both in state and national levels. We are proud to announce that the six edition of the department’s journal is published.
The department once again thanked every other departments for their constant support and encouragement in their own style of presenting a momento.
17th ISP National PG Convention Preconference Course
The 17th Indian society of Periodontology (ISP) National PG convention 2018, was held at Chennai from 16th to 18th March 2018. A pre-conference course on “ Soft tissue expanders and management of flap during ridge augementation” was held at Saveetha dental college and Hopsitals on 16th march 2018 under the patronage of our honourable Chancellor Dr. N.M Veeraiyan and Director of Academics Dr.Deepak Nallaswamy. The pre-conference course was inaugurated by Dr. C.S Prasad who gave an inspiring talk and demonstrated few suturing techniques to the budding young periodontists. We had a total of 51 registrations for this course and had registrations from all states across the country. The course speaker Dr. Kaarthikeyan gave an elaborate lecture on soft tissue expanders and the surgical protocol to be followed for the surgery. This was followed by a live demonstration of a case in which soft tissue expander was placed on the patient. The course moderator Dr.N.D Jayakumar was actively interacting with the participants during the live surgery. We also had a second live demonstration of a case of ridge augmentation where a graft from the symphysis region was harvested and the flap management for this case was clearly demonstrated through this live video. The valedictory function was presided over by our dean Dr.N.D Jayakumar and the ISP organising committee member Dr. Ashok felicitated the course speaker Dr. Kaarthikeyan with a certificate of appreciation. Dr.Sheeja Varghese proposed the vote of thanks and congratulated all the delegates for their active participation as well as the organising team of the pre-conference course for contributing to the success of the conference. The online feed back from the delegates was very good and they were looking forward and willing to participate in the upcoming programs organised by our department.
Show Case 2018
The fourth international conference in case reports and case series, showCASE 2018 was held on the 23rd and 24th of March 2018 at Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals under the patronage of our Honourable Chancellor Dr. N.M. Veeraiyan and Organising Chair and Director, Dr. Deepak Nalkaswamy. The fourth edition was inaugurated on the 23rd of March, 2018 and had the unique distinction of collaborating with the European Society of Cosmetic Dentistry (ESCD). Under the guidance of Organising Secretary Dr. Abby Abraham, the theme of this edition focused on the passion, perfection and persistence displayed by dental students and practitioners in all phases of their dental careers. Despite a busy academic schedule amongst the dental student fraternity, the simultaneous organising of inter-collegiate competitions and university inspections at our contemporary institutions, the conference successfully hosted 350 delegates. Over 250 Paper presentations were chaired by 90 judges in 37 sessions which were broadly categorised based on the complexity of the case as Basic, Advanced or Master Clinical Cases. Among the 74 Master Clinical Cases presented, the top 16 cases were selected to be assessed by a panel of judges who sponsored prize money of INR5000 in the categories of best diagnostic challenge, interdisciplinary approach, aesthetic balance, restorative finesse, surgical skill and pedodontic care which was held on 24th March 2018. Following which, Guest Speaker Dr. Premila Suganthan provided her valuable insight on the Clinical Applications of Dental Lasers. The Valedictory Function was presided over by Honourable Chancellor Dr. N.M. Veeraiyan and Director Dr. Deepak Nalkaswamy. 37 Session Best prizes were awarded along with 16 Best Overall in the Basic and Advanced Clinical Cases categories. Dr. Kathiravan S won the Best Diagnostic Challenge, Dr. Ganesh Jeevanandan for the Best Pedodontic Care, Dr. Sudharsana Anadakumar was awarded the Best Interdisciplinary Approach, Dr. Surendar Sugumaran for the Best Aesthetic Balance, Dr. Abinaya Kannan for the Best Restorative Finesse and Dr. Dr. Mimansa Bhoj was the Best in Surgical Skill. Dr. Mimansa also won the overall award in the Master Clinical Case category which was sponsored by the ESCD in the form of a registration fee waiver of INR 15,000 at the upcoming ESCD Conference to be held in Lisbon, Portugal from the 20th-22nd September, 2018. Scientific Co-Cordinator Dr. Caroline Jacob gave the vote of thanks and congratulated all the delegates, award winners as well as the Organizing Team of showCASE 2018 for contributing to the execution and success of the conference.
World Oral Health Day
World Oral Health day was celebrated on every 20th of March 2018 at Panchayat Union Middle School, Kuthambakam.
Health talk focused on parts of a tooth, the types, functions, importance of preservation, mechanism of dental caries, prevention of caries and gum diseases and various treatment modalities available. The need for oral care was stressed and emphasis was made on early approach for healthy oral status.
Tooth brushing technique, its duration, proper storage and selection of tooth brush and tooth paste, frequency of brushing and changing tooth brush, mouth rinsing and technique to use dental floss was demonstrated to the audience using an appropriate health education aid with phantom oral cavity. A total of 174 students were benefited from this program.
17 TH ISP NATIONAL PG CONVENTION PERIO-DIKSHA PRE-CONFERENCE COURSE- SOFT TISSUE EXPANDERS AND MANAGEMENT OF FLAP DURING RIDGE AUGMENTATION.
The 17th Indian society of Periodontology (ISP) National PG convention 2018, was held at Chennai from 16th to 18th March 2018. A pre-conference course on “ Soft tissue expanders and management of flap during ridge augementation” was held at Saveetha dental college and Hopsitals on 16th march 2018 under the patronage of our honourable Chancellor Dr. N.M Veeraiyan and Director of Academics Dr.Deepak Nallaswamy. The pre-conference course was inaugurated by Dr. C.S Prasad who gave an inspiring talk and demonstrated few suturing techniques to the budding young periodontists. We had a total of 51 registrations for this course and had registrations from all states across the country. The course speaker Dr. Kaarthikeyan gave an elaborate lecture on soft tissue expanders and the surgical protocol to be followed for the surgery. This was followed by a live demonstration of a case in which soft tissue expander was placed on the patient. The course moderator Dr.N.D Jayakumar was actively interacting with the participants during the live surgery. We also had a second live demonstration of a case of ridge augmentation where a graft from the symphysis region was harvested and the flap management for this case was clearly demonstrated through this live video. The valedictory function was presided over by our dean Dr.N.D Jayakumar and the ISP organising committee member Dr. Ashok felicitated the course speaker Dr. Kaarthikeyan with a certificate of appreciation. Dr.Sheeja Varghese proposed the vote of thanks and congratulated all the delegates for their active participation as well as the organising team of the pre-conference course for contributing to the success of the conference. The online feed back from the delegates was very good and they were looking forward and willing to participate in the upcoming programs organised by our department.
CURRENT RESEARCH AND COMMUNITY BASED DENTAL EDUCATION CDE PROGRAM
Department of Public Health Dentistry had conducted a CDE on “Current Research and Community Based Dental Education”, on 13th March 2018. Two International speakers, From University of Kwazulunatal(UKZN), Durban, South Africa, visited the institution and delivered Guest lectures. Dr.Shenuka Singh, the Acting Dean of College of Health Science, gave a brief insight about the health care services in south Africa and highlighted on the Current research projects and PG training at UKZN. This was followed by the Dr.Ilana Moodley, prof. in Community Health Dentistry department gave a lecture on Community Based Dental Education at UKZN. The faculties of Saveetha Dental College and Post Graduates, who were interested in widening their horizon of research participated and benefited from the lectures. The program ended with official meeting of Team from Department of Public Health Dentistry with the International delegates in discussing about potential collaborative activities from research and academic front.
International Women’s Day
International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8 ever year to commemorate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women. On the International Women’s day, Department of Public health dentistry join hands with Women empowerment cell, Saveetha dental college, conducted an awareness programme for women at KH Exports,Sennerkuppam on oral health and also created awareness about Breast cancer focusing on the simple examination procedures for early detection of the cancer. An awareness speech was given about the importance of oral health for women stressing about the hormonal imbalance during pregnancy, puberty and menopause.
National Dentists Day
March 6 is observed as National Dentists day and to celebrate this day Department of Public Health Dentistry organized awareness program in Saveetha satellite centre, Thirumazhasai, Chennai.
The main purpose was to raise awareness about the oral disease among patients. Always people avoid dental visits because of nervousness and anxiety which leads to major oral health issues. Dental caries and periodontal diseases are public health problem in India. Points highlighted during the program were structure of tooth, causes, management and prevention of dental caries, periodontal disease, malocclusion, oral cancer and maintenance of oral health. We also distributed free tooth brushes and tooth pastes to the gathered patients.Therefore National Dentists day was celebrated to increase public awareness on periodic dental visits and dental health issues.
SPARC 2018
The third edition of Saveetha’s Pedodontic Advanced Revision Course was organised by the Department of Pediatric Dentistry on 1st and 2nd of March, 2018. Dean, Dr.N.D.Jayakumar inaugurated the event by lighting the Kuthuvilakku. Eminent speakers from Chennai and other states shared their knowledge by delivering lectures in various topics such as Pulp therapy, Interceptive Orthodontics, Child Psychology and Behavior Management. Delegates from eight different dental colleges from Chennai, Andra Pradesh and Salem attended the program and found it to be very informative. Professor Dr.Deepa conducted a crossword puzzle for the participants and the winners were appreciated with certificates.
Rare Disease Day
Rare Disease Day is an observance held on the last day of February to raise awareness for rare diseases and improve access to treatment and medical representation for individuals with rare diseases and their families. It was established in the year 2008
As a part of Institutional social responsibility, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Saveetha dental college organized a campaign on 28th February 2018 on the occasion of Rare disease day. Rare Disease Day 2018 offers participants the opportunity to be part of a global call on policy makers, researchers, companies and healthcare professionals to increasingly and more effectively involve patients in rare disease research.
As a part of the campaign free oral health screening camp was conducted at Sri Padmavathi Amma aged home, Chennai. Awareness on rare was raised among the participants with the help of videos. Importance of research and policy making on these diseases were explained.
Role of zinc in type-2 diabetes mellitus with periodontitis
CDE programme was conducted on 24.11.2018 by Department of Biochemistry for the topic “Role of zinc in type-2 diabetes mellitus with periodontitis” which was delivered by Dr. D.S Pushparani, Assistant professor, Department of Biochemistry, SRM dental College and Hospitals, Chennai, India. There were 91 under graduates who attended the programme. She enlightened the audience about the direct relation between the risks and complications of diabetes and periodontitis and outlined the features that govern the interrelationship between zinc and diabetes mellitus with periodontal disease, including the physiologic mechanisms and clinical studies with scientific evidences. She correlated the importance of zinc and its protective effect for the treatment for periodontitis who suffer from type-2 diabetes mellitus with her research findings. Her simple explanatory talk was very useful to the budding dentists and they were able to interact with the speaker effectively with relevance to mechanism of action therapeutic action of zinc for periodontitis with diabetes. The talk was very impressive, novel and informative to the students as well as to the faculty members.
GAIN WITH NO PAIN-Full mouth rehabilitation under general anaesthesia
Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry conducted aCDE program on Full mouth rehabilitation under general Anaesthesiaaptly titled“Gain with no Pain” emphasising the unique feature of the procedure on14-2-2018.
The course was inclusive of both lecture series and hands on workshop and was certified with five DCI credit points.
The course was attended by 24 participants including general practitioners,undergraduate students and Pedodontic postgraduates.
Participants enjoyedthe enriching real time experience of treating patients under general anaesthesia that was arranged by the team of experts.
Anesthesiologists Dr.Navaneetha Krishnan and Dr.Rathna gave in depth information regarding the preoperative assessment of patient for general anaesthesia and the importance of informed consent .Their prompt andtimely explanation regarding the anaesthetic procedures added special value to the program andequipped the participants with vital information and knowledge .
Dr.G.Deepa in her interactive session spoke about the indications of General Anaesthesia for dental treatment of children and the post operative care needed for the child after the treatment under general anaesthesia is concluded.
Dr.Kanthaswamy briefed the participants about the complications that could arise during and after General anaesthesia.
Dr.Mahesh and Dr.Geomani apart from supervising the treatment done to the children provided their guidance and valuable information to participants about the proceedings in the operation theatre.
The one of its kind hands on programme instilled greatconfidence to participants to recommend general anaesthesia as a treatment modality for patients requiring multiple dental procedures
11th Convocation- Saveetha Institute of Medical & Technical Sciences
A decade since Saveetha University was established and grooming better every year. We compete with us and win ourselves year after year. The proof was the 11th convocation held on 22nd February 2018. 4 Doctor of Science, 41 Doctorate and 13 Gold Medals and this is all a part of students graduating this year. The feather to the crown is our Chief Guest Honorable Vice President of India Mr. Venkaiya Naidu.
Sir was generous to grace the occasion and we had a proud moment. He addressed the gathering and inspired the students with all his energy. He emphasized on learning mother tongue, education, future India, Make in India, Digital India and many other things thereby engraving in young minds the importance of service to the Nation.
Edify Department of Public Health Dentistry
The fourth round of edify for Department of Public Health Dentistry was held on 15th of February 2018. The Edify started with highlighting the department’s Academic achievements in the last one year. This included the UG and PG attendance, as well as pass percentages and Preventive procedure counts done in the specified time period. Apart from the routine data regarding the publications, Conferences and work shops attended / conducted; three specific accomplishments were shared. The first was compilation of the monographs done by the undergraduate students in to a text book, which has been accepted to be published by ‘Blue Rose Publishers’. By this, 51 UG students would be recognized as contributors for the book. The second accomplishment was, formulation of Nano hydroxy apatite crystals in a more cost effective way. We thought sharing this knowledge in a common platform would enable interested researcher to utilize it in future projects. Third was, selection of scientific paper by our final year post graduate student to be presented in “ANVESHAN 2018” conference, where more than 25 universities all over India have been expected to participate.
The second part of the presentation was on innovative videos by the Department of Public Health Dentistry. Totally three videos were played for the audience. First video was a documentary titled ‘A day in dental public health’, which highlighted on how DPH works behind the scenes to create awareness regarding public issues and instills good oral health habits. Second video was also an awareness video in Tamil, titled “Cancer”. It was created with daily wage workers and construction workers in mind, since they form majority of the working class people with high prevalence of malignant and premalignant conditions. Third was innovative teaching video, for undergraduate students. It was done on “Non probability Sampling technique”. The concept was decoded and made simple with daily life examples, for better understanding application by the students. The third part of the presentation was on camps and out reach activities by the department. The total number of camps, the beneficiaries, the health days celebrated, the status of the current MOU’s signed and upcoming MOU’s were highlighted. Before the meeting concluded, final remarks on progress of the long term follow up camps in “Mahatma Gandhi School” and “Don GuanellaSchool for differently abled children” were briefed out by the head of the department.
MASTER CLASS LECTURE SERIES IN CBCT IMAGING
The Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Saveetha Dental College conducted a CDE programme on ‘MASTER CLASS LECTURE SERIES IN CBCT IMAGING’ on February 12th 2018. Professor Dr. Jie Yang who was the past president of American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology (AAOMR) and the president of International Association of Dento-Maxillo-Facial Radiology (IADMFR) delivered a guest lecture on ‘Interpretation of 3D Cone Beam Computed Tomography’. Participants all over Tamil Nadu attended the CDE programme. The guest lecture by Dr.Jie Yang was very informative which elaborated about the interpretation of CBCT images by starting with normal anatomical structures in a CBCT image and further proceeding into the various pathological conditions such as cysts and tumour, their appearance and other characteristics of the condition. The programme concluded with an interactive discussion about CBCT interpretation with Dr.Yang where dentists of other specialities such as endodontics, oral surgery etc had a very informative discussion with Dr.Yang which aided many post graduates in acquiring knowledge on CBCT.
CLEFT AND CRANIOFACIAL PADIYANALLUR, CHENNAI 2017-2018
As part of Cleft and Craniofacial Centre in Saveetha we conduct screening camps for cleft children in Tamilnadu And Andhra Pradesh .We have also obtained an GO letter from Project Director To support our camps ,We meet health officials of most of the districts in tamilnadu and AP.
With help of their support we used to go for camp for camps and mobilise the patients on the same day or they used to send patients with some volunteers on regular basis every month .Apart from all these success won’t be possible with out the support of our management who has so kind heartedly and magnemously. Came forward to help these cosmetic and functionally affected cleft children from very poor socioeconomic background
We are providing Total free comprehensive cleft treatment which includes free investigations ,surgery,food,accommodation transport charges-for patients and two attendees,medicines,speech therapy, orthodontic treatment as well free ENT and prosthetic rehabilitation .
Our Aim is to bring Smile to these worried faces.
GAIN WITH NO PAIN
Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry conducted a CDE program on Full mouth rehabilitation under general Anaesthesia aptly titled “Gain with no Pain” emphasising the unique feature of the procedure on14-2-2018.
The course was inclusive of both lecture series and hands on workshop and was certified with five DCI credit points.
The course was attended by 24 participants including general practitioners,undergraduate students and Pedodontic postgraduates.
Participants enjoyed the enriching real time experience of treating patients under general anaesthesia that was arranged by the team of experts.
Anesthesiologists Dr.Navaneetha Krishnan and Dr.Rathna gave in depth information regarding the preoperative assessment of patient for general anaesthesia and the importance of informed consent .Their prompt and timely explanation regarding the anaesthetic procedures added special value to the program and equipped the participants with vital information and knowledge .
Dr.G.Deepa in her interactive session spoke about the indications of General Anaesthesia for dental treatment of children and the post operative care needed for the child after the treatment under general anaesthesia is concluded.
Dr.Kanthaswamy briefed the participants about the complications that could arise during and after General anaesthesia.
Dr.Mahesh and Dr.Geomani apart from supervising the treatment done to the children provided their guidance and valuable information to participants about the proceedings in the operation theatre .
The one of its kind hands on programme instilled great confidence to participants to recommend general anaesthesia as a treatment modality for patients requiring multiple dental procedures