Digital workshop for dental prosthesis : ISPRP preconference workshop

The ISPRP preconference workshop the department of prosthodontics conducted digital workshop for dental prosthesis fabrication by Dr.Ashok. The participants used the digital module to fabricate a 3 unit bridge starting from scanning till milling in the SIRONA dental system with Blue cam intra oral scanner. The workshop was helpful to get oriented to the complete digital workflow of dental prosthesis fabrication and also gave an idea of virtual preparation evaluation. The participants were very enthusiastic and wanted more programs on digital dentistry to be conducted more frequently to enhance their knowledge and skills in the field of CAD CAM dentistry.

EDIFY- Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

The department of oral and maxillofacial surgery showcased it 6th edition of Edify on the 1st of August.The theme of the edify was activity based learning. Oral and maxillofacial surgery is a speciality in dentistry which requires extensive understanding of the anatomy and precise surgical skills to treat patients.Students find it difficult to understand certain treatment concepts as all they see in the textbooks are two-dimensional in presentation. We prepare study models which enable the students to learn the procedure by performing them on these models. We teach them concepts of cyst treatment which are multiple and require a certain level of understanding.Likewise, trans-alveolar extractions and fracture reduction and fixation procedures are also demonstrated on models for easy understanding. Dr.R.N.Balakrishna was also awarded the workaholic award by our Dr.Deepak Nallasamy, Director of Academics and our Dr.Sheeja Varghese, Dean, Saveetha Dental College.

World Hepatitis day

Department of Microbiology observed the World Hepatitis day on 27th of July 2019 in the Saveetha Dental College and Hospital premises. World hepatitis day   observed every year to create awareness about transmission, screening and control of viral hepatitis with a specific theme. The motto for World Hepatitis Day 2019 is “Invest in Eliminating Hepatitis”

A guest lecture was arranged by the department about Blood borne viruses with special reference to Hepatitis B virus. Dr.Pachamuthu Balakrishnan, Head, Division of Microbiology and Quality, Infectious Disease Laboratory, YRG Centre for AIDS Research and Education, Chennai was the guest speaker of the day. The speaker made a vibrant note on prevelance prevention measures and the novel governmental plans to stop TB spread in the community. 

MICROSUMMIT – 2019 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CURRENT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENTS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Department of Microbiology organized and conducted an International conference on Current Research and Developments in Microbiology – MICROSUMMIT 2019 on 3rd of August 2019 under the specialized themes on Antimicrobial drug resistance, Microbial genomics, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Food, soil, and Industrial Microbiology. Nearly 300 delegates from 25 reputed arts and science colleges and Govt. universities from South India, participated in the conference and presented their research works in 5 different scientific sessions. The Inauguration was presided by our Director of Academics, Dr.Deepak Nallasamy along with the speakers of the forum Dr.Meganathan Kannan, Visiting Professor at Hemostasis and thrombosis Research Laboratory, Loyola University Medical Centre, Chicago, USA and Dr.V.Aravindhan, Visiting Scientist at the AIDS International Training and Research Program, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA. Dr.R.V Geetha welcomed the dignitaries and delegates for the conference. The speakers and chairpersons of the scientific sessions were felicitated and the Best research works were awarded for the faculties, research scholars and post graduates by Dr.Deepak. Dr.A.S.Smiline Girija, organizing secretary, proposed the formal vote of thanks. The Inauguration was followed by the scientific lectures by the eminent speakers under the charge of Mr.N.P.Muralidharan. The speakers awarded the best research works for the undergraduate delegates. Team Micro is grateful for the support and encouragement rendered by the management of Saveetha as the forum was a grand success.

“SAVEETHA’S SURGICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL EXCELLENCE IN UNMASKING 526 TEETH FROM A SINGLE SITE IN A CHILD”

A little boy of 7 years old was brought to Saveetha Dental College and Hospital by his parents with a complaint of a swelling in the jaw.  He had been taken to a nearby hospital, Chennai at the age of 3 since the parents noticed a small swelling at the right lower jaw, but he refused to co-operate for any investigative procedures as he was very young. Hence the swelling was left undiagnosed for 4 years. He was brought to our institution at the age of 7 years as the swelling was slowly increasing in size. 

The parents were very apprehensive as they had thought it could be a cancer of the jaw. The initial work up by the surgeons revealed a large lesion with multiple hard structures at a single site within the lower jaw. During the surgery, the operating surgeon noticed a well-defined bag like mass which was removed in its entirety. The specimen weighed about 200gms.

The specimen was radiographed which revealed multiple tiny radiopaque structures. On further evaluation by the oral pathologists, and to their utmost surprise the bag revealed 526 tooth like structures. In the pathologists’ own words “it was reminiscent of pearls in an oyster”. It took 5 hours of meticulate searching to remove all the minute teeth from the opened bag like specimen. “This pandora box of miniature teeth is a jewel on our crown” said the postgraduates. The tooth sizes varied from 1mm to 15mm and each resembled a tooth with crown covered by enamel and a root like structure.

                This is the first ever case to be documented world wide, where so many minute teeth were found in a single individual. This rare lesion is termed as “compound odontome”. The expertise and the competence of the team of oral surgeons and oral pathologists in Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals in dealing with such a rare case are to be applauded. The surgeons’ discretion in removing the lesion in total without exploring it on the operating table (akin to opening a bag of worms) avoided a major mishap and saved the patient from being under general anaesthesia for a longer duration and the attendant complications. Saveetha has always been the benchmark of excellence and abides by all health care schemes and is readily accessible to all strata of patients.

Clinical Photograph: 7 year old boy with swelling in right side of lower jaw

Intraoperative image

Faculty & Postgraduates Counting the teeth

526 Teeth

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OPG: Reveals Mixed Radiolucent -Radioopaque structure in the right side of the lower jaw

CBCT: Confirms the OPG findings

Stereomicroscope image

Team Saveetha

Workshop on Guided bone Regeneration

A one day programme was organised by the department of Implantology on “ Guided bone Regeneration and Vertical ridge augmentation” in association with Staruman Biotis on 23rd July 2019. 

The program started with two lectures given by Dr. Arunachalam and Dr. Tejas Kothari, who had briefly discussed the various who had briefly discussed the various grafting techniques and the bone graft materials to be used for successful soft and had tissue regeneration. 

The lecture was followed by hands on session of goats mandible, where 35 participants had performed socket preservation, vertical ridge augmentation using Strauman Botis bone graft with Jason membrane and mucoderm. 

The Programme has highly appreciated by the participants, through which they gained vivid knowledge on the current concepts of grafting procedures. 

Work shop on “WRIGHT IT RIGHT –MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION“

The budding researchers are facing difficulties in manuscript preparation and in succeeding in publishing their research findings. The main aim of the CDE program is to meet the current demand of our student  researchers. The first lecture on Succeeding in publishing your research was delivered by Dr.T.N.Uma maheswari ,Professor,Dept of Oral Medicine and Radiology ,Saveetha Dental College,who shared her research experience and the methodical approach to fight against rejection of publication.  The main focus of the lecture was from very beginning of manuscript-preparation such as  selecting the proper research title  based on research priorities in various Grant agencies and IMRAD pattern.

The second lecture on How to choose a journal for publication was delivered by Dr.Krithika Datta, Reader, Dept of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics. This lecture was informative regarding the various sources available for identification and evaluation of suitable relevant journal based on our research title. Workshop on Journal finder was useful for all the students to understand the various search engines available to get all possible journals and how to arrive at right choice of journal based on journal impact factor. There were around 30 delegates and majority were research scholars both national and International who at the end of the CDE AND HANDS ON WORKSHOP found that the programme was an answer for all their queries related to submission of research proposal and will help them to overcome the difficulties in Publishing their research.

Prime Inauguration

Saveetha Dental College added another feather in their cap by launching their latest venture, ‘Saveetha Prime Multispeciality Dental Practice’. The practice was inaugurated by the Honourable District Collector of Thiruvallur Tmt. Mageswari Ravikumar IAS on 18th July,2019. The function was presided by the Founder Chancellor of Saveetha Institute of Medical And Technical Sciences Dr.N.M.Veeraiyan and many dignitaries graced the occasion with their presence. Dr Deepak Nallaswamy, Director of Academics, addressed the gathering and explained that Saveetha Prime was set up with a vision to serve as a model dental clinic for our students and elaborated on all the latest facilities that Prime has to offer. With serene calm interiors to dispel Dentophobia, state of art therapeutic and diagnostic facilities, and over 200+ senior consultants to treat patients, Saveetha Prime Multispeciality Dental Practice is all set to make heads turn and lives better.

Contemporary Concepts In Oral Medicine – Diagnosis, Management, Discovery and Beyond

The Department Of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Saveetha Dental College – Chennai conducted a 4 day (30 hour) credit course titled: 

“Contemporary Concepts In Oral Medicine – Diagnosis, Management, Discovery and Beyond !!” from July 1st – 4th ,2019.

Dr. Nathaniel S. Treister, Chief of the Division of Oral Medicine and Dentistry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and current Vice President of the American Academy Of Oral Medicine ( AAOM). The course was coordinated by Dr. Arvind Muthukrishnan, Professor and Department Head of Oral Medicine at Saveetha Dental College.

The course was attended by 60 delegates from all over India. The audience included oral medicine postgraduates as well as several senior faculty members. The course covered all aspects of oral medicine from international oral medicine practice, mucosal disorders and management, oral oncology, research in oral medicine, and professionalism. This innovative micro teaching and small group discussion credit course which is first of its kind in India was well appreciated by all delegates who thoroughly benefited from the unique teaching modality, table top clinics and case scenarios, hands on training, and group projects.  The course was also awarded 24 CDE points by DCI.

This course effectively highlighted the scope and importance of oral medicine practice amongst the postgraduates  and oral medicine practitioners in India. 

A MoU was signed between Saveetha Dental College and Oral Medicine Department Of Harvard School Of Dental Medicine ( HSDM ) for cooperation in research and exchange of scientific information.The events were reported in a leading Indian national news paper – The Indian Express

Workshop on Guided bone Regeneration

A one day programme was organised by the department of Implantology on “ Guided bone Regeneration and Vertical ridge augmentation” in association with Staruman Biotis on 23rd July 2019. The program started with two lectures given by Dr. Arunachalam and Dr. Tejas Kothari, who had briefly discussed the various who had briefly discussed the various grafting techniques and the bone graft materials to be used for successful soft and had tissue regeneration. The lecture was followed by hands on session of goats mandible, where 35 participants had performed socket preservation, vertical ridge augmentation using Strauman Botis bone graft with Jason membrane and mucoderm. The Programme has highly appreciated by the participants, through which they gained vivid knowledge on the current concepts of grafting procedures.

Workshop on IPR

Saveetha institute of medical and technical sciences organised an exclusive workshop on Intellectual Property Rights on 5&6 July 2019.The workshop was graced by the vice chancellor, eight eminent scientists, high profile research consultants and innovators in various fields of medicine , management,science and engineering .154 delegates across Saveetha university attended the workshop.

The delegates were exposed to various legal norms involving patents and related innovation.They were highlighted on the various facilities provided by the government of India to encourage innovation and research. Various other initiatives for entrepreneurship were also discussed elaborately.

The workshop included several brain storming sessions on product development, follow up, and up gradation of the existing ideas and patents.

The scope for innovation in defence research and space research was also discussed profoundly by the chief guest Dr UK Singh who was the former director of DEBEL Defence bioengineering and electro medical laboratory and the current director of CAIR centre for artificial intelligence and robotics. The workshop also shed light on various placement opportunities for aspiring graduates in the field of invention and science.

Edify: Activity Based Learning- Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology

Department of oral Medicine and Radiology presented our edify on 18/7/2019 on ACTIVITY BASED LEARNING. Our Students had done 4 activities namely Mosaic Tiles, DIY –XRAYS, Pearls of Wisdom, Connexions

Mosaic Tiles activity helped the students for easy understanding of Pulp and periapical Diseases. There were three coloured tiles red, grey, green representing clinical examination, radiographic findings and diagnosis respectively. It helped students remembered the pattern of the disease better

DIY-XRAYS (Do It Yourself) activity helped the students to learn the radiographic diagnosis depending on radiographic appearances. Students have to choose property based on the radiographic appearances  and make characteristic radiographic pattern and give radiodiagnosis.

In Pearls of Wisdom activity, colored clay balls were used. Black-Neutrons, Red-Electrons, Blue-Protons were used for better understanding of concepts of atomic number, atomic mass number, Isotopes and atomic structure of an atom.

Connexions activity was based on the connections between oral manifestation of systemic diseases–Series of pictures of clinical features are shown, student has to identify the disease using these clues, helped the students to retain the characteristic clinical features of particular disease enabling them to diagnose disease in a better way.These activities helped the students to have a self directed Learning experience.

Dr. Jayanth Kumar V received the workaholic award. The edify was well received and they got an average score of 8.3.

International Conference on Stem Cell and Cancer Therapy

 Department of Pharmacology, Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, SIMATS, Chennai has organised an International Conference on Stem Cell and Cancer Therapy (ICSC-2K19) on July 5th 2019. Dr. Moorthy P. Ponnusamy, Associate Professor from University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, USA gave a talk on “Maintenance of stem cell and cancer stem cells” . He has emphasised that, Metastatic cancer cells generally cannot be eradicated using traditional surgical or chemoradiotherapeutic strategies, and disease recurrence is extremely common following treatment. On the other hand, therapies employing stem cells are showing increasing promise in the treatment of cancer. Stem cells can function as novel delivery platforms by homing to and targeting both primary and metastatic tumor foci. Dr. D. Ezhilarasan , Assisatant Professor from the Dept. of Pharmacology , Saveetha Dental College and Hospital, SIMATS, Chennai has delivered a talk on Mesanchymal Stem cells for Cancer therapy . Metastatic Breast Cancer and Novel Therapeutics  was delivered by  Dr. Murali Anbalagan, Assistant Professor from the Department of Structural & Cellular Biology, Director, Pre-clinical small animal Imaging Facility, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, USA. A total of 180  delegates have participated  from various Institutions and 42 delegates , presented e-poster and  four e-posters were awarded for best posters . The TN DCI has provided 3 credit points ( 265/19) for this international conference.

Salivary Gland Symposium- Live Demonstration

Salivary gland symposium was a speciality oriented conference. Faciomaxillary surgeons and Budding post graduates attended the program with great enthusiasm. The special Invitee for the program was Dr.Andrew Edwards,Dean ,Royal college of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. He is also the director of dental examination, responsible for conducting the prestigious MFDS and MOMSRCPSG degrees outride UK. The

participants had the opportunity to witness a live surgical Demonstration of a tumor removal in one of the salivary glands of the cheek.Both events were well appreciated by the participants.

Digital Workflow in Implant Dentistry- Saveetha tessellation center

3 Day Workshop on Digital Workflow in Implant Dentistry Saveetha tessellation center with the support and guidance by the department of implantology conducted a 3day workshop on digital workflow in implant dentistry. The speaker for the even was Dr.Druthil Bhelur a U.S trained prosthodontist who did his post doctoral masters nd certificate in prosthodontics at Baylor college of dentistry in Dallas. During his residency he has been trained in multiple softwares used for dental prosthesis designing and treatment planning. 

The event took place as a series of lecture and demonstration in the 3shape software. Staffs, Postgraduates and fellows of department of prosthodontics and implantology attended the programme. First day of the event focused on introduction to digital dentistry and the basics of implant softwares. Second day started with a demonstration on treatment planning and stent designing in the 3 shape software and followed by a series of case discussions. The third day started with a series of case discussion on smile designing and implant supported prosthesis followed by  demonstration on designing customised abutments. The workshop was 

Redefining Dental Public Health For Future

The department of Public health dentistry,  Saveetha Dental College in collaboration with the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa had organized a certificate course on “Redefining Dental Public Health for future”  for students and private practitioners. The five day program was scheduled between 10th and 14th of June 2019. An international speaker, Dr. Shenuka Singh from the South African University along with the faculty team from the department conducted a series of interactive lecture sessions on the first four days. Oral Health inequality, health information systems, integration, Oral health policy framing were the core topics for discussion. Other topics like ethics and its application in research were of use for the undergraduate and postgraduate students. Last day of the program included panel discussion and guest lectures by speakers from national institutions. Dr.Prabhu, Reader from ASAN Dental College, Chengalpattu delivered a lecture on “Scope of Dental Public Health in India”, followed by Dr.Rajkumar, Reader from SRMC, Chennai enlightened the audience on Past present and future of Dental Public Health. 

“Primary Cell Culture Techniques” - Workshop

Aiming to provide intense knowledge in the topic primary cell culture techniques at Dental Research Cell - Biomedical Research Unit and Lab Animal Centre, Saveetha Dental College, SIMATS, Chennai Organized one day workshop on primary cell culture techniques. We extremely thank Dr. Deepa. G, Associate Dean of Research for her wonderful support throughout the workshop. Our workshop is mainly focused on primary cell culture techniques. The Keynote speech was given by Dr. D. Ezhilarasan. The hands-on training was conducted by Dr. Durairaj Sekar, elaborated on each and every step from the isolation of the tissue till the cells incubated inside the CO2 chamber, also gave a clear note on cell culture techniques from the basics of cell culture up to how the technique is involved in different stages of culture technique. During the practical session students and faculties explored and showed their immense interest to learn how to handle the cells and culture them individually, finally they observed the cells under the inverted microscope. In the group discussion session students were very open to ask questions got clarified with their doubts, they understood the importance of the workshop and gained ideas how it will help them in their future research. Dr. Padmaraj Veterinarian shared his experience and knowledge on cell culture techniques.

M.Orth Part 2 Examination

The department of Orthodontics successfully conducted the M. Ortho part 2 examinations in collaboration with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow. The exam was taken by 37 candidates and was examined by a panel of 12 examiners from the Royal college of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow and England. The exam was conducted for three days from 24-06-2019 to 26-06-2019. The examiners appreciated and thanked the management and the faculty for the excellent organization and administration of the examination.

 They were also amazed at the infrastructure of the college and appreciated the research activities being conducted at Saveetha Dental College.