12TH International BDS Students Seminar - Basic Medical Sciences

12th International BDS students seminar on basic medical sciences was conducted on 8th December 2018 at Saveetha Dental College & Hospitals.This international seminar is very unique as it gives a platform for dental students to enrich their knowledge in basic medical sciences.  The chief guest of the day was Dr. Yeshwanth Kumar Venkataraman, Honorary Consulate, Embassy of Republic of El Salvador, India. The program was felicitated by Dr. Deepak Nallaswamy, Director of Academics, Saveetha Dental College and Dr. Sheeja Varghese, Dean, Saveetha Dental College. The seminar was attended by 850 delegates from around the globe. The delegates presented papers, eposters and participated in quiz competitions. The scientific presentations were conducted in various halls judged by eminent subject experts from various dental colleges across the country. Awards were given for best  scientific presentations and quiz by Dr. S. Senthil Kumar, Principal, College of Allied Health Sciences, Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute. 

World AIDS Day

Department of Microbiology observed the World AIDS day on 1 ST of December 2018in the Saveetha Dental College and Hospital premises with the theme “Know your HIVstatus”. The department organized an awareness campaign emphasizing the importance ofknowing one’s status and calling for the removal of all barriers to accessing HIV testing among the faculties, visiting patients and technical staff. Banners and posters were displayed at various places in the college exhibiting the theme for the year 2018 in preventing control of HIV and AIDS. To symbolize the motto and to create awareness, red ribbon were given to all students.

Deliberation:

The department arranged a guest lecture on “HIV and Dentistry” by Dr. Dr.R.Rajan, Ph.d, a researcher on HIV and AIDS and Associate professor, department of microbiology, Mohamed sathak college of arts and science. The lecture is aimed at creating awareness among the dental students on clinical presentation of HIV and AIDS in the oral cavity that will greatly reduce the occupational risk and cross infection. The lecture was well attended by students.

Hepatitis B Vaccination Camp

HBV is the major causative agent of acute and chronic liver infection, cirrhosis, and primary hepatocellular carcinoma worldwide. Infections can be expedited through several routes, including direct contact with blood, oral fluids or other secretions, indirect contact with contaminated instruments, equipment, contact with airborne contaminants present in either droplet splatter or aerosols of oral and respiratory fluids. It has been documented that HBV infection is the most important infectious occupational hazard in the dental profession. To decrease the burden of hepatitis B infection among dentists, it is recommended that the dental professionals should receive immunisation against hepatitis B virus.

Department of Microbiology, Saveetha Dental college and Hospitals organised a Hepatitis B vaccination camp on 05.12.2018 at the college premises. The faculties emphasised the importance of Hepatitis B vaccination and to maintain the protective antibody titre to be safe while handling patients. Undergraduate and Post graduate dental students who are not immunised were vaccinated. A total of 150 students were vaccinated at a nominal cost. Immunization cards were also issued to them to keep track on the next scheduled dose.

Revascularization of necrotic immature permanent teeth – An Update

Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics conducted a guest lecture on “Revascularization of necrotic immature permanent teeth – An Update" presented by Dr. C. Sooriaprakas, Reader, Dept of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Meenakshi Ammal Dental College on 23.11.18 at Watson and Crick Hall, Saveetha Dental College. In the recent years, there is a paradigm shift in the management of necrotic immature permanent teeth, with most of these teeth being treated by revascularization rather than conventional apexification procedures. The current available evidence suggest the true pulp dentin complex is not being formed after regenerative endodontic protocols {REP], nevertheless it can result in continued root development that enable the tooth to survive for long time. This guest lecture highlighted the need for protocols that will enable good disinfection without causing damage to stem cells. 

Healthy life style- Guest Lecture

Department of Physiology conducted a CDE Programme on 17 th November 2018 entitled as “Healthy lifestyle” by Dr. Mohammed Yosuf. He is working as an Lead therapist in Hyundai motors private limited.He shared a wide knowledge on how to maintain healthy life style among the students . He also taught few stretch exercise to the students to follow regularly and thereby maintain a healthy life. The participants were first year BDS and BSC students. We trust that his experience would have provided our students to avoid sedentary life style and follow active healthy life. The programme was wrecked with an excellent interactive session.

Advanced Endodontic Training

It was immense pleasure to have Dr. Moataz Alkhawas, Asssociate professor of Endodontics, AlAzhar University, Cairo, Egypt for an intensive 30 hour contact programme in ‘Advanced Endodontics’ which has broadened the knowledge about day to day endodontic procedures to a great extent. Starting with diagnosis, detection of aberrant canal morphology to implementing an effective treatment regimen, every aspect was covered in great detail with emphasis on recent advances. All the steps were well supplemented with relevant case reports which helped the students to co-relate it clinically. Many clinical tips were shared during the course which would benefit the students during regular endodontic procedures. The live demonstration with strict clinical protocol being followed was of great help to the students. On the final day of the programme, the candidates were clinically supervised by Dr. Moataz himself for various clinical procedures who were guided meticulously by him. In totality, it was definitely an interactive and enriching training programme which has improved the knowledge of the students manifold regarding routine endodontic procedures.

A combinatorial informatics approach applied in deciphering insights of diagnosis and treatment- Guest Lecture

Department of Pharmacology has conducted a Guest Lecture on 17 th November 2018 on atopic entitled “A combinatorial informatics approach applied in deciphering insights of diagnosis and treatment”. The Disease management relies on the information of genome and proteome to identifyproteins associated with a disease. The basis of new drug discovery is to inactivate proteins involved indisease, which is performed with the help of 3D structure of the protein associated with the disease.Our speaker Dr.S.Sridhar, Assistant Professor,Department of Biotechnology, Jeppiaar EngineeringCollege has given a very informative lecture on Integrating data, pattern recognition, mining,interpreting using machine learning algorithms and visualization. Also about the analysis and understanding of biological processes relevant to oral tool using computational tools such as statistics/machine learning approaches has explained. The present lecture might have opened way tonew research projects in the young minds of our budding dentists.

31st Founder's Day- SIMATS(DU)

The 31st Founders’ day is yet another memorable day for the Saveetha family. The event started at 10.00 am in the morning and got wrapped up at 4.00pm in the evening with an one hour break for the lunch. The event started with the traditional lighting of kuthuvilaku and welcome dance.

The were 5 life time achievement awards across various fields and two young achiever award. The life time achievers are Honourable Justice M. Jaichandran, Prof. (Padmashri) C.U. Velmurugendran, Prof. Dr. Shyamala Chandrasekhar, Mr. K. Balasubramaniyan, Prof.R. Venkatachalapathy and the young achiever’s are Dr K Senthil Kumar, Baby. Athena D Veeraiyan.

The chief guest of the event Mr. A. Kaliamoorthy IPS, gave a motivational speech to the gathering. He told the students to focus more on education and emphasised on how education alone can shape their future. The chief guest was facilitated by Our chancellor.

Founder, Chancellor, Dr.N.M.Veeraiyan, SIMATS addressed the gathering. He shared his struggle and perseverance towards the university and emphasised that all of us should grow like him. With that the forenoon session came to an end.

The afternoon session was the most eventful that our university gave cash prize worth Rs.1,50,00,000/- for top 5 students across all the institutions under the university and for every year. Also the award winners of various conferences were honoured. Departments were ranked according to the total CAFE score and awarded from rank 59 to 1. The Best Publication award was given to Dr.Rajesh Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Best Researcher award was won by Dr. Senthil Kumar, Research Department and Best Faculty Award was won by Dr. Vishnupriya, Professor, Department of Biochemistry.

Dr.N.D.Jayakumar, Dean Saveetha Dental Dental College was elevated to the post of Dean of faculty on that day and Dr.Sheeja Varghese took over as the Dean of Saveetha Dental College. The ceremony came to an end with Vote of Thanks and National Anthem.

Saveetha Dental College - Annual Report 2018

Students Exchange Programme

Student from Mahsa University, Malaysia came to Saveetha Dental College. They attended a student observer ship programme for two weeks from 27th October 2018 to 10th November 2018. Students were happy and impressed with the exposure. They were taken aback with the patient inflow and infrastructure. They also participated in interactive sessions.

World Radiology Day- 8th November 2018

The Department of OralMedicine and Radiology organised a programme on radiation protection for the Interns. They were given an insight on how to design their private practise set up to provide an radiation protective working area for the operator, patient and environment. Students were given ideas on how to position their x-ray machine their practice area be it a 150 sq,ft space or 1500 sq.ft space.

Festival of light..

Deepavali, Festival of light was celebrated by our institution on 2nd November 2018. With the blessings of our Founder, Chancellor Dr.N.M. Veeraiyan sweets and crackers were distributed by to all the staffs in the university by Dr. Deepak Nallaswamy, Director of Academics, Saveetha Dental College. Our University focused on the wellbeing of its faculty and other staffs. Hence, on every special occasion they keep a foot forward to ensure the happiness of the faculty.

Insignia 2018

On the eve of 27 th October 2018, it was raining awards in Saveetha Dental College.

Insignia 2018 an extravagant event, recognized and rewarded the efforts of students and staffs

for the year 2017-18. The event was graced by the presence of esteemed chief guests Dr. Sai

Kumar, Dr. Elanchezhiyan Manickan, Dr. K. Vivekananda Subrmania Nathan, Dr.H.Devaraj,

Dr.Jayakara SM and Dr. P.S.Thaha.

The evening began with the lighting of the kuthuvillaku by the chief guests which was

followed by the award ceremony and cultural events by the students. Dental technicians, Dental

mechanics, BDS students, MDS students ,Teaching and Non teaching staffs were rewarded

based on various criterias.

The dental technicians and mechanics were awarded for their excellence in academics

and clinical work. Naresh Kumar S (1 st year dental technician) won the 1 st place in both the

categories. Among the dental mechanics Kathiravan K (1 st year), Ajith K , Lokeshwari L(2 nd yr)

and Jeeva (3 rd year) bagged the first place in academics. In the clinical category, the 1 st place was

won by Ravi(1 st year), Balaji (2 nd year) and Chikkandar (3 rd year).

The chief guest for first year BDS awards was Dr P Sai Kumar, Dean of Sree Balaji

Medical College. The awards were given for the subjects Anatomy, Dental Anatomy,

Physiology, Biochemistry, Forensic Odontology and Behavioural Science. The students with

most number of publications were given awards along with the oral all toppers. Shamaa

Anjum.A , Thaslima Nandhini .J, Yuvashree C S were the stars of the ceremony as they bagged

awards in almost all the categories. 6 students from the first year were given the research topper

award for 4 publications in scopus indexed journals.

Dr.Elanchezhiyan Manickam awarded the IInd BDS students for their acheivements in 8

academic subjects and research publications. The overall toppers were Praniti.T, Keerthiga

Nagarajan, Keshaav Krishnaa.P, Trinina Somas Kandhan and Cinthura.C. Keshaav Krishnaa.P

also baggaed the research topper award with 4 publications in indexed journals.

The third year BDS students received the awards from the hands of Dr. K. Vivekananda

Subramanian Nathan. The students were awarded for the subjects General Medicine, General

Surgery, Oral Pathology and additional subjects, Medical Emergencies, Imageology and Practice

Management. Vaishali. S received a total of 7 awards, including the Overall Topper. In the

Clinical Awards Category, the maximum number of awards was bagged by Ahmed Hilal Sheriff

K. Sarveshkumar. J won the Research Topper awarded . The other overall Toppers included

Aniruddh Menon, Subashri A, Kalyani P and Kiruthika P.

Dr.H. Devaraj awarded the Final BDS students for their performance in 10 academic

subjects, clinicals and research publications. The overall toppers were Mokshi.R.Jain, Harsha. L,

Renuka.S, Khushali.K.Shah and Prema Sivakumar. The research topper was Hemani.K with 4

publications in scopus indexed journals.

The hardwork of the Interns was recognised with the clinical award for the maximum

number of prcedures. It was handed over by Dr. Jayakara.SM. Chandini Ravikumar for Oral

medicine and Oral surgery, Harini NS for Public Health Dentistry and Periodontics,

Bharaadwaj.B for conservative dentistry, Balaji.R for Prosthodontics, Muthu Laakshmi.G for

pedodontiics and Priyangaa A/P Sathasivam for Orthodontics were awarded. The best intern of

the year award was given to Dr.Harini NS. The research Topper award was given to Devishree

with 6 publications.

Dr. Jayakara.SM also handed over the awards to the postgraduates based on maximum

procedures done in the year 2017-2018 in their representative departments. Jayapriya.R for Oral

Medicine, Janani K for Oral Surgery, E.Maheshwari for Public Health Dentistry, Arun Kumar

for Conservative Dentistry, Sneha Ketan Gada for Prosthodontics, Priyanka for Periodontics,

Veerale Dinesh Panchal for Pedodontics, Arya.S.Prasad for Orthdontics and Rahul Mohandas for

Oral Pathology bagged the awards. Pravinya.S won the best researcher award for 6 publications

and among the 2nd year Postgraduates, Janani K,Vaishnavi and M.Keerthana bagged the award

with 5 publications.

Clinic 2 won the best clinic award for their robust 39,931 procedures and for treating

16,979 patients. The Departments with the highest academic scores were Oral Surgery and

Microbiology. The departments with highest Batch average Prosthodontics and Biochemistry.

The Academic award for highest number of distinctions was bagged by the department of

.Among the faculty, Dr.Vishnu Priya was awarded the Best Faculty with the highest CAFE

Score.  The Best Research Department was won by Prosthdontics. The Overall Best department

awards was won by the Departments of Biochemistry and Prosthodontics.

Educational Trip for Post Graduates

The Department of conservative dentistry and Endodontics organised an educational trip in IIT Madras for the post graduates of Endodontics and Prosthodontics. The intention of this field trip is to give a wide knowledge about the various equipment’s available such as Scanning electron microscope, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy ,FT Raman, Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy, Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry, Nuclear magnetic resonance for solid and liquid. This will definitely improvise the knowledge of the post graduates and motivate them to select better dissertation topics and other short term research projects.

Bringing Innovation and New Ideas To Painless Dentistry

Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics conducted a guest lecture on “Bringing

Innovation and New Ideas To Painless Dentistry “; presented by Dr. V. Sri Prakash, Orthodontistand Oral Implantologist on 26.10.18 at Watson and Crick Hall, Saveetha Dental College.

Platelets play a critical role in haemostasis and healing process as they are a rich source of

growth factors. Several techniques have been used to collect platelet concentrate. CGF technique

is one of the most effective and simple to prepare, 1-step preparation of a fibrin matrix that is

larger, denser and richer in Growth factors. It is autologous, upgraded version of PRF and

boosted Growth Factors and CD34+ cells. CGF in regenerative surgery should therefore be

considered as a multifactorial stimulation system. The lecture highlighted on the versatility and

multiplicity of its application, which makes it stand out from other techniques proposed so far.

HARD TISSUE LASERS IN DENTISTRY

The Department of Periodontics organized a CDE program on hard tissue lasers on 17/10/2018 by, Dr Vidhyaa Hari Iyer who has completed her Fellowship in Laser Dentistry from the University of Genova, Italy. The program aimed at both undergraduate and postgraduate students, started with an introductory lecture on hard tissue lasers, which was then followed by a live demo on the patients and non-clinical hands-on for the program participants.

Hard tissue lasers are the trending, painless alternative to conventional surgical procedures

and the participants were actively engaged with lively lectures and hands on using the hard-

tissue laser (Biolase). Various periodontal procedures like gingivectomy and laser-assisted

debridement was performed by the Dr Vidhyaa and there was an interactive question-answer

session with the particpants. There were 32 participants including the national delegates. The

entire day was actively engaged brain-storming sessions, knowledge-transfer, lively lectures and hands-on demo with hard tissue lasers.