Dr Abbas Naqvi is a dental marketing professional. He is among the most innovative and creative minds to come out of the Pakistani dental field in the past ten years. Starting out as a dental graduate, he chose to go above and beyond the traditional confines of the profession by integrating into the dental media…
By Our Special Correspondent Prominent Implantologist Dr Irfan Qureshi, who is popularly known as ‘IQ’, has a passion for implant surgery and endeavouring hard to excel at it. “I am trying to break into the international circuit. It is very hard to get into the cutting edge technology that the world is getting into to…
By Our Reporter VOICING concern over increasing number of smokers, incidence of diabetes, prevailing poor oral hygiene and stress in the society, prominent periodontist, Dr Asher Jameel, termed them the root cause of periodontal diseases in the country. Highlightingthe importance of producing more specialists in periodontology, he stressed the need for creating awareness about periodontal…
By Haseeb Uddin Dr Farrukh Ejaz Raja is a graduate of Liaquat Medical College Jamshoro 1978. He has been associated as pioneer member since the time he graduated. When he moved to Islamabad he laid the foundation of PDA Islamabad and has been instrumental in arranging 2 international conferences last being in 2003. Being a…
By DN Staffer Dr. Syed Muhammad Faizan did his Bachelors in Dental Surgery from Fatima Jinnah Dental College, Karachi, is the founder of Pak Dental Community (PDC) as well as its Foundation. He is currently teaching in the Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery department at Bahria University Medical & Dental College, Karachi, besides doing his practice…
Interview Beyond dentistry Section By DN Staffer An entrepreneur, a dentist and an international speaker, all rolled into one, you have Dr Waqas Wahab – the man behind the success of invisible braces under the brand name of Clearpath. He is the founder of ClearPath Orthodontic System as well as that of ClearPath Orthodontics (Pvt.) Ltd….
By Our Reporter UNFORTUNATELY, Pakistan is a country that suffers in a multitude of ways, which led to a severe shortage of qualified medical and dental professionals within the country, and Karachi being the most populous city, suffers the brunt of such a shortage, opined Dr Sara Altamash in an exclusive interview with Dental News….
By Dr Rafia Lahooti Dr Noeen Arshad, a 1990 graduate of deMont Morency College of Dentistry, soon after the house job, went to the United States of America to pursue his two-year accredited programme in Paediatric Dentistry at Boston Universty School of Dental Medicine, thereby acquiring the Board Certification in Paediatric Dentistry. During this period,…
Improve pay-scales to control brain drain–Dr Yasser Dr. Yasser Riaz Malik is a promising foreign qualified dental surgeon who did his BDS from Baqai Dental College in 2006 and then proceeded to do his master’s in public health from Sydney University. He is presently associated with Sir Syed College of Medical Sciences (Dental Section) as…
Dental News, Pakistan talks to Dr. Petros Yuvanoglu, D.M.D. summa cum laude, Cert. Prsth. (Tufts, USA) Specialist Prosthodontist, who is in private practice, working exclusively with immediate loading dental implants. Together with Dr. Costa Nicolopoulos, they co- founded the award winning Same Day Dental Implants Clinic located in DHCC, Dubai, UAE. Q- What prompted you…