Dental camaign Overview -

Dr. Nidhi Vyas and I (Dr. Pooja) checked almost 200 patients in which there were many routine checkup patients, we told them about all the dental problems they were suffering from, if not cured or treated they may have to bear painful consequences later on... We diagnosed and treated almost 5 to 8 patients of disimpaction (wisdom tooth extraction). We did almost 150 patients of full oral mouth prophylaxis (scaling). We did almost 40 patients of RCT (Root Canal Treatment) and cap placement in-fact multiple bridges placement also done. We started 2 patients of denture which will be continued after camp also. We also diagnosed 2 cancer patients which will be treated by specialist.

Thanks to Anant Aman Social Welfare Society for such encouragement and help that they gave. Thanks to all team members of our Ngo Hemant sir, Atul Dwivedi, Devendra Pandey, Sarang Rajderkar, Vidit Pathak for all help and coordination.

Dental Checkup of Patients. Diagnosing the dental problems.

ADVISE to General Public..

These days people are really suffering more from dental problems and so we can say that awareness is increasing day by day.

People should not neglect their dental problems it may lead to such diseases that it’s difficult for a person to even chew food nicely.

So please don't be ignorant and get yourself into problem. In camp also and normally also we heard some myths that if u get your teeth extracted, it leads to cancer or if you go for full mouth oral prophylaxis (scaling) it would lead to loosening of teeth. Such things are absolutely wrong. So please don't be ignorant, don't believe in such myths and get yourself checked in every six months. Brush twice with proper technique. Change your toothbrush in every 3 months.... So at last I wish u all have a happy and healthy smile. 

-Dr. Pooja Pandey

OUTDOORS & HEALTH

When I was a kid, summer vacations used to be a most awaited time for me. I could go out to my nani’s place and can visit the farms (natural beauty), play in the garden with my friends until the sun went down. I kept myself quite occupied without any of today’s modern technologies.

Now, exams are about to finish and there are hundreds of television stations, video games, and interactive Web sites that will keep kids occupied for hours on end. Kids staying indoors for a long period of time have prolonged negative effects extending far beyond childhood. They start missing something that is essential for their health and development. Parents think that their child is safe and will not develop any health problems if they stay indoors all the time. The truth is that a child who spends more time indoors gets subjected to Social, Physical and Emotional problems.

There are many health benefits that make outdoor play great for children.

Ø  Control childhood obesity

The prevalence of childhood obesity is increasing; Part of this huge increase is contributed to less outdoor. It's hard to get enough active play and exercise if you're always inside playing video games or watching TV. And without enough exercise, kids can become overweight.

Ø  Bone health

Vitamin D increases with outdoor exposure to the sun. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends just 10 minutes of early morning sun exposure per day for a good daily vitamin D dose. Vitamin D helps in calcium absorption, protect children from heart disease, diabetes and bone problems.

Ø  Reduce stress

Spending time outdoors has been linked with lower stress levels in children. Playing outdoor games for at least 30 minutes every day can do wonders to refresh and rejuvenate physically and mentally.

Ø  Promote creative and innovation

Outdoors, a child learns on multiple levels with each new adventure (Burdette and Whitaker, 2005). With all of the imaginary castles, lands, creatures, the brain develops at a much faster rate than for those who play indoors. There are numerous effects. Not only do they become better learners, and do well in school, but they are more fun to be around (i.e. they make more friends)

Benefits of outdoor games:

Physical development

·         Physical strength

·         Balance

·         Muscular strength

·         Hand eye coordination

·         Flexibility

·         Weight control

·         Cardiovascular endurance

Social development

·         Citizenship

·         Discipline

·         Teamwork

·         Leadership

·         Confidence boosting

·         Communication skills development

·         Feeling of freedom

·         Awareness

Few examples of outdoor games:

Tracking, Cycling, Walking, Gardening, Hide and seek, Jump rope, Ice water, Sports like cricket, football, basketball, badminton etc.

It’s good for our kids to be outside more often. As a parent, it’s our responsibility to provide varied opportunities for outdoor play, exploration and games.

By- Raksha Goyal

ORGAN DONATION- THE GIFT OF A LIFETIME

Indore has now entered among the top Indian cities in organ donation. We are now ranked second (amongst cities) when a sum total is calculated for eye, skin and cadaver donations. We have now started making a green corridor and transporting the organ to other cities by air.

This news has captured everyone’s eyes last week, but there are still few myths related to this. Let’s understand the whole stuff…

What is organ donation?

Organ donation is the donation of biological tissue or an organ of the human body from a living or dead person to a living recipient in need of a transplantation. The donor of the organs plays a role of God in the life of organ transplanted person. One organ donor can save more than 8 lives in his life by donating his well function organs. 

A reality check

More than 5 lakhs of the Indians are dying every year just because of the failure of their major functioning organs anytime.

·         200,000 people die of liver disease

·         50,000 people die from heart disease

·         150,000 people await a kidney transplant but only 5,000 get one

·         1,000,000 people suffer from corneal blindness and await transplant

Law for safe organ donation

To prevent the commercial dealing in human organs a Transplantation of Human Organs (THO) Act was passed in 1994. Aim of this act is to regulate the removal, storage and transplantation of human organs for therapeutic purposes only.

Who can donate?

·         A deceased donor, after brain death or cardiac death

·         A living donor, who can give a kidney, or a portion of the liver, lung, intestine or pancreas

Which organs can be donated?

Up to 25 different organs and tissues can be donated for transplantation.

Transplant able organs include :-

·         Heart

·         Kidneys

·         Liver

·         Lungs

·         Pancreas

·         Small intestines

Transplantable tissues include

·         Blood, blood vessels

·         Eyes

·         Skin

·         Bones

·         Bone marrow

·         Cartilage

·         Connective tissues

·         Heart valves

Maximum time span between recovering organs/ tissues and transplantation

Lung                    (4-6 hours)

Heart                   (4-6 hours)

Liver                    (12 hours)

Pancreas             (12 hours)

Kidney                 (12 hours)

Skin                     (6-12 hours)

Corneas               (14 days)

Reason for low organ donation rate

Most of the people do not have proper awareness about the organ donation, which organs can be donated, when they can donate, how to get registered for the organ donation, etc. Some people do not interested in the organ donation or do not show their independent desire for organ donation because of the family pressure or their own fear and myths.

How to donate

There are two ways to donate organs:

1.   

By pledging for organ donation when a person is alive

2.   By consent of family after death

Indian Society of Organ Transplantation was initiated the Transplant Registry in India in 2005. There is a facility of online organ registry for the people all over India who are willing to donate organs on their own will. Organ registry ensures the proper organ donation as well as the fair use of donated organs in the future according to the priority of need and requirements of the organs to the recipients.  Please visit the following website for registration :-

1. Mohan Foundation: http://mohanfoundation.org/

2. Shatayu: http://shatayu.org.in/

3. Gift Your organ: http://giftyourorgan.org/

4. Gift a Life: http://giftalife.org//

No glitz and glamour, happiness in cheapest ever

10th oct'15 was one of the most awesomes days that has ever occurred to me. This was Saturday which is almost thought as a chill pill day by Indians. School children abhor moving to school this day as next is going to be a fun day-Sunday. College youths find this as an apt day to go for GT. Either to watch a new released movie or urge to go to an adventorus trip. Be it choki dhani, patal paani, vijay chat ki chole  tikki and many many more. But this time none of the above mentioned reason made me happy. Neither the movie nor the odi tickets. The reason because of which I kept smiling the whole day was a social cause. Our visit to orphanage. We all were supposed to report at 11:30am. I only knew the President of AnantAman  social welfare society Mr Hemant gupta sir. We all headed towards a common destination of which maximum people were aware-Annapurna temple. Gradually people started gathering. Some youths were from Medicaps and some were from Vaishnav college. I do not remember all names but yes some remarkable were Apurva, Poonam, Suchi, Abhishek, Aditya and many more. Well presence of every guy made event successful and more remarkable. Well what I really liked in the group was their enthusiasm level. Now finally after all gatherings we reached orphanage. As soon as we entered they greeted us with Jai Shree Krishna. And at that point I realised how wonderful are our Indian values. We took intro of all the kids. Their strength was approx 25. Actually we went with a special moto of celebrating birthday of one of our group member's colleague Divya as well as two children from the orphanage itself: Manish & Ajay. But before cake cutting ceremony we had various games so that they could open up with us and enjoy to their fullest. After intro we had fun including dances, songs, poetries and lots of stories cited by various sweet voices. I was really shocked but actually glad to see their updation regarding songs, movies and several dance styles. It was an awe moments. It was really nice the way we young bloods mingled with our future young bloods, kids. Then obvio it was time for the most trendy thing. Yeah snaps. The other moment we really felt touched was when all kids unitedly recited prayer before lunch and cake ceremony. They looked so determined and ambitious while playing. It truely created a positive aura. It reminded me a flashback of my school days. After a short span we served lunch which comprised of almost every child's favorite. Yes it was yummy pav -bhaji. All of them ate it in very organised and systematic manner. I could glance satisfaction level on each and every face . Well what could be better than this. Apart from all the glitz and glamour of this world they were destined to find happiness even in the cheapest of things. Well this is what exactly we need to learn from them. Even in the toughest phases of life they do not seem to struggle. They are enjoying and living to their fullest. At times kids teach us things which even elder fail to teach. Being natural and simplicity is one of the biggest lessons I have learnt. Not only me but we all need to learn from it. At last, although we were not willing to move but as time didn't permitted us we had to make a move. We concluded our event with some moral teachings that every children should be aware of. More than them we were thankful to kids for making our day extremely unique and our event exclusive as well successful.

Pen portrayed by Poorva Banthiya

Airline Lunches

I put my carry-on in the luggage compartment and sat down in my assigned seat. It was going to be a  long flight from Delhi. 
'I'm glad I have a good book to read Perhaps I will get a short sleep,' I thought.

Just before take-off, a line of soldiers came down the aisle and filled all the vacant seats, totally surrounding me. I decided to start a conversation. 
'Where are you guys headed?' I asked the Young man seated nearest to me. "Agra. We'll be there for two weeks for special training, and then we're being deployed for operations."

After flying for about an hour, an announcement was made that lunches were available on payment. It would be several hours before we reached Delhi , and I quickly decided a lunch would help pass the time..

As I reached for my wallet, I overheard a soldier ask his buddy if he planned to buy lunch. 'No, that cost a lot of money, probably wouldn't be worth it. I'll wait till we get to Delhi ...." 
His buddy agreed.

I looked around at the other soldiers. None were buying lunch. I walked to the back of the plane and handed the flight attendant enough money to cover for 10 lunches and told her 'Take a lunch to all those soldiers..' 
She grabbed my arms and squeezed tightly. Her eyes wet with tears, she thanked me. 'My young brother was a soldier in Kargil , it's almost like you are doing it for him..'

Picking up ten lunchboxes, she headed up the aisle to where the boys were seated. 
She stopped at my seat and asked, 'Which do you like best - Veg or chicken?' 
'Chicken,' I replied, wondering why she asked..

She turned and went to the front of plane, returning a minute later with a dinner plate from first class. "This is your thanks".

After we finished eating, I went again to the back of the plane, heading for the rest room. An old man stopped me. 'I saw what you did. I want to be part of it. Here, take this.' He handed me a Rs 500/- note.
Soon after I returned to my seat,

I saw the Captain coming down the aisle, looking at the aisle numbers as he walked, I hoped he wasn't looking for me, but noticed he was looking at the numbers only on my side of the plane. When he got to my row he stopped, smiled, held out his hand, and said, 'I want to shake your hand.' 
Quickly unfastening my seat-belt I stood and took the Captain's hand. With a booming voice he said, 'I was an Air Force pilot a long time back. Once someone bought me lunch. It was an act of kindness I never forgot.' I was embarrassed when applause was heard from all of the passengers.

Later I walked to the front of the plane so I could stretch my legs. A kid who looked about 18 was sitting about six rows in front of me reached out his hand, wanting to shake mine. I felt him stick a currency note in my palm.

When we landed I gathered my belongings and started to depart. Waiting just inside the aeroplane door was a man who stopped me, put something in my shirt pocket, turned, and walked away without saying a word. 
Another currency note !

Upon entering the terminal, I saw the soldiers gathering for their Trip up to their training area.. I walked over to them and handed them all the currency notes that was given to me on the flight and said. 'It will take you some time to reach your training area. It will be about time for a sandwich. May God Bless You.' and thank you for doing whatever you do.

Ten young men of honour left that flight feeling the love and respect of their fellow countrymen. As I walked briskly to my car, I whispered a prayer for their safe return. These soldiers were giving their all for our country. I could only give them a couple of meals. 
It seemed so little...

A Serviceman is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank cheque made payable to ' India ' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.'

That is Honour, and there are way too many people in this country who don't understand it.............



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