Dental Tribune Pakistan Edition No.2, 2016

PUBLISHED IN PAKISTAN MARCH, 2016 - Issue No. 02 Vol.3www.dental-tribune.com.pk Page 10 Page 14 Editor - Online Haseeb Uddin CLINICAL PRACTICE WOHD 2016 Feline dental implants: New paradigm shift in maxillary cuspid extraction treatment planning Technological innovation in professional home bleaching..... 2016 Customer Service Award ARACHI - World Oral Health Day (WOHD) is celebrated each year on March 20 to highlight the benefits of a healthy mouth and to create worldwide awareness of the issues concerning oral health and oral hygiene among all and sundry, whether old and young. Though the oral diseases affect 90 per cent of the world's population in their lifetime, many of them could be prevented with increased support of government, health associations and the society at large, and with the funding required for prevention, detection and treatment of such ailments. "It all starts here, Healthy mouth, Healthy body" is the theme of 2016 World Oral Health Day. Dental News a JV partner of Dental Tribune in Pakistan in collaboration with Pakistan Dental Association (PDA) launched a major campaign aimed at popularizing the WOHD 2016's current year's theme "It all starts here, Healthy mouth, Healthy body" so that people could be apprised about the importance of oral health. The campaign is backed by FDI, JPDA, DTI, FDI partner associations and the local sponsor, Shield Corporation. World Oral Health Day is celebrated throughout the world on March 20 and in Pakistan it would be the 6th consecutive year that the Shield Corporation, as part of its CSR activities, has sponsored the mega event. Shield Corporation will be doing 204 schools across Pakistan in April to create awareness among schoolchildren as part of its commitment to serve the community. In Pakistan, Shield Corporation Ltd. has been working in the sphere of oral cancer for over 30 years and like previous years, Shield® again joined hands with the internationally celebrated "World Oral Health Day" to highlight the importance of oral hygiene and to offer the dental and oral health community an action platform so as to help reduce the global oral disease burden. As more than 90 per cent of all dental diseases go untreated, Pakistan has a long way to go before it can truly celebrate `healthy smiles'.Almost every Pakistani has or will suffer from oral disease in their lifetime, ranging Continued on page 04 K DT Pakistan Report By Our Staff Reporter ARACHI- Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan’s (Drap) chief executive officer (CEO) Dr Muhammad Aslam has vowed that all the 7,500 pending cases of drugs registration will be cleared during the current year. The Drap has, however, registered 1,900 medicines during 2014 and 2,775 medicines in 2015, he added. Giving details of the pending cases, Drap chief said that of the total 7,500 drug registration cases, 3,500 cases belonged to the period ranging between 2010 and 2015, while remaining 4,000 cases have been pending due to some technical reasons such as incomplete documents or non-payment of registration fees, etc. According to a press release, the Drap had fixed the timeframe of 30 days to clear such cases and that all these cases would be registered by October this year. A mechanism had been evolved to maintain transparency in registration of drugs and two meetings will be convened every month to study the cases, the press release quoted Dr Aslam as saying. “In fact, drugs registration cases kept on piling up as previously only few meetings used to be convened in a year,” he added. He said that of the 700 pharmaceutical companies registered with Drap, 24 are multinationals. He said that under the reforms transformation strategy, the authority had been focusing on four aspects which include registration, licensing, quality control and price control of medicines, besides an international standard of registration was being developed in the country to make it on par with the standard of WHO-specific format, called Committee on Trade and Development (CTD). Under the Drap’s new reforms policy, senior- level officers such as chairman and secretary would be the signing authority for registration as against the past practice when a section officer used to be the signing authority, he said, adding that there would be an international standard accredited central drug-testing laboratory, while laboratories would also start working at provincial level. He said these laboratories would be pre-qualified from the WHO in order to improve the credibility of these labs. He said that a federal drug surveillance laboratory would soon start functioning under WHO assessment scheme and Drap would observe gaps and potentials, while its transparency would be checked by the WHO. Continued on page 14 K PDA, Shield & Dental Tribune join hands to reach over 25,000 patients 2,775 DRUGS REGISTERED IN 2015 Page 6 Editor - Online Haseeb Uddin NATIONAL NEWSCLINICAL PRACTICE Drap vows to clear 7,500 pending cases by October It all starts here Healthy mouth. Healthy body

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