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Dental Tribune Pakistan Edition No. 5, 2015

12 DENTAL TRIBUNE Pakistan Edition September 2015 Maxillary Sinus Grafting course ARACHI - After the success of first Implantology course by renowned maxillofacial surgeon Dr. Noor ul Wahab, the course is being offered for the second time this year for those who seek to enhance their skills and knowledge. The course began in May 2015 and already four successful sessions have been conducted. Each session consists of lecture and hands on work shop. The third session was held on 25th and 26th July 2015. It was dedicated to Maxillary Sinus Grafting. There were lectures by Dr. Noor ul Wahab on Anatomy of maxillary sinus, vertical and horizontal sinus lift techniques - both with and without implant placements. This was followed by a lunch break, after which the participants gathered again for a hands-on session comprising of Vertical and Horizontal sinus lifting and Sinus grafting on models. One whole day was dedicated to the hands-on session, w h e r e a l l t h e participants successfully placed implants on patients under the supervision of Dr. Noor ul Wahab. The fourth session was held on 29th and 30th August 2015. The main focus of the session was Guided Bone Regeneration. Dr. Noor ul wahab spoke on; Classification of ridge defects. GBR materials and b o n e a u g m e n t a t i o n techniques for various ridge defects. After the lunch break, the hands-on workshop was dedicated to bone augmentation and various types of suturing techniques, after the placement of artificial bone and implant. Dr. Naveed Rasheed was invited to share his valuable knowledge and some of his cases with the participants, highlighting various techniques in sinus lift as well as the Dos and Don'ts while placing implants. He also shed some light on bone augmentation and regeneration. K DT Pakistan Report Market to grow up to 30.4 Billion.... Continued from front page Advancement in Dental Studies & Research (IADSR) said that the rise in oral health care awareness in Pakistan due to FMCG and toothpaste & tooth brush manufactures is no more than 10% - 15%. He further commented that the rise in GNP in Pakistan along with Education and international exposure of a common individual in Pakistan are the major reasons for rise in Oral care awareness. He said that it is a known and established phenomena globally that the rise oral health care awareness is directly proportional to the Secondary and Tertiary education in any country. He said that marketing campaign executed by the toothpaste manufactures and marketers have surely raised the awareness on brushing habits however, the rise of oral health care awareness cannot be complimented alone to the advertising activities. Students to pay more after PM&DC.... Continued from front page directed the colleges to implement the new fees from 2015-16 sessions onwards. This will affect more than 6000 students across Pakistan but who cares. "No medical and dental institution training for MBBS/BDS in the private sector shall charge tuition fee more than 600,000 per annum per student," the 2013 regulations read. Interestingly one of the oldest private dental college in Sindh which until recently was marked in red with admissions stopped has now been graded as category A. Sources told Dental News that the letter issued to them by PM&DC has also been retracted stating that it was sent inadvertently. With this decision it is expected that the tuition fees to the tune of Rs100,000will be increased per student for category 'A' private colleges. Similarly, category 'B' colleges would charge each student Rs42,000 as incremental annual tuition fees. Students reacted to the development with anger and shock, in a recent statement by the Pakistan Medical Student Council (PMSC) they referred to PM&DC as "private medical and dental council". PM&DC is silent on payments other than tuition fee like students pay university examination fees, taxes, hostel fees, transport fees and the one- time admission fee under the PM&DC regulations. Some private colleges are charging Rs 200,000 as non-refundable admission fees and there is no stopping. PM&DC Registrar has categorically said that the council had increased the tuition fees to facilitate those medical and dental colleges which showed good performance. It seems no Public sector medical or dental college came upto the standards of PM&DC as none of them were rewarded. 24 partner varsities attend training session Continued from page 10 conducted by the HEC. He appreciated support from the US government and partner universities in promoting higher education in Pakistan and emphasized that focal persons attending the training must implement the techniques and tools for efficient functioning of the financial aid offices. USAID Education Office's deputy director Dr Garth Willis was also present at the event. Speaking on the occasion, he said that this training is a useful activity to create better understanding of the programme's objectives among partner universities so that it can be implemented according to the criteria of merit and need. He said that the US government has invested in many education projects in Pakistan and USAID-Merit and Need-based Scholarship Programme is one of its key programmes which is dedicated to cater to the needs of talented students who, due to financial barriers, are deprived of higher education. Later, Dr Willis and Dr Bhatti gave a w a y c e r t i f i c a t e s a m o n g representatives of the financial-aid offices. PLAGIARISM AT UNIVERSITIES YDERABAD - The Sindh High Court has recently suspended the implementation of an earlier notification from the Higher Education Commission, which had blacklisted the former Vice president of the Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association, on charges of Plagiarism. According to recent media reports; Dr Azhar Ali Shah- an associate professor in Sindh University, was among the 20 teachers of seven universities in Pakistan who were blacklisted and stripped of all benefits and allowances in March 2015. The news report further stated that; All of them were charged with plagiarism and were accused of re-publishing, in Pakistani journals, two of his articles that were earlier published in foreign journals, without modifying his research. The act amounts to self- plagiarism in the academic parlance. The court restrained the SU's syndicate, which was scheduled to meet in the end of August, from implementing the HEC's notification until the next hearing. The petitioner informed the court that; decision over the issue is on the meeting's agenda. In his petition before the Hyderabad Circuit Bench, Shah maintained that; this decision by the HEC's Plagiarism Standing Committee violated the commission's plagiarism policy. He was not even heard before facing the HEC's action, he added. Shah claimed that before publishing his articles in the SU's Research Journal in 2011, the varsity's focal person for anti- plagiarism - Dr M Saleem Chandio had cleared it for publication. He argued that; the committee took action on a fake complaint against him. "The [then] acting SU's VC Dr Parveen Shah who is VC in Khairpur's ShahAbdul Latif University (SALU)] and former SALU professor Ghulam Raza Bhatti [one of the 13-member Plagiarism Standing Committee] used their influence [against me]," he had said in his initial reaction to his blacklisting. Shah hoped the court would declare the notification illegal and order the HEC to restore his benefits. H SHC Suspends HEC notificationDT Pakistan Report

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