Dentistry
Ultimate Computer Station or High-tech Dental Chair
Being a dentist by profession it is generally a habit to be on the look out for dental issues being blogged around the world. This recent image of the Ultimate Computer Station caught my eye while browsing through Gizmodo which most definitely remains the center of all upcoming geek toys.
PCE the creators of this [...]
Bitwine - Professional Advice over Skype
I have for sometime been interested in highlighting different ways with which the tremendous talent in Pakistan is able to tap into the global market and make a buck or two in the process, since we continue to face a number of hurdles which include visas to economic restrictions by the Government of Pakistan. [...]
Immediate effects if you STOP smoking
Smoking is an addiction which claims over 3.5 million premature deaths every year throught out the world, Pakistan has a huge population of cigarette smoking addicts. Beating any addiction requires a person to make a choice and a decision that they will stand by no matter what it costs or how difficult it may [...]
Gum That Makes Brushing Obsolete
Lets not go jumping around throwing away your toothbrushes just yet, but the future holds a new product in development that could change your nightly ritual forever and find its away into your medicine cabinet one fine day
The Wrigley Gum Company has paired up with the U.S. military to create an anti-bacterial chewing gum that [...]
APDC 2006, Karachi, Pakistan
Starting from the 23rd Feb to the 27th Feb, Pakistan is going to be honored be the host of a very elite dental conference titled the 28th Asia Pacific Dental Congress. This is a prestigious Scientific Seminar conference which Pakistan has obtained after some serious negotiations amongst the 28 Asia Pacific nations with some [...]
Floss Facts
Commercial floss was first manufactured in: 1882
Material it was first made of: Silk
Newest material: Gore-tex
Amount bought per person: 18 yards
Amount that should be bought per person: 122 yards (12 inches a day)
Percent who say they floss daily: 28% (some are fibbing, according to the sales data)
In 1994 a prison inmate in West Virginia braided [...]
Dentistry in Karachi
Teeth Maestro is actually the pen name of Dr. Awab Alvi who is a dentist by profession in Karachi, Pakistan. He has been practicing Dentistry in Karachi since 1999 when he graduated from de’Montmorency College of Dentistry, Lahore and has since been practicing with his father Dr. Arif Alvi at Alvi Dental Hospital, which [...]
Nanospheres to cure Sensitive Teeth
The Institute of Physics in a conference recently revealed some interesting research related to dentistry, preliminary findings show that Nanospheres could finally solve the age of problem of sensitive teeth.
Sensitive teeth or ‘dental hypersensitivity’ is a condition that arises when the dentine of the tooth is exposed. The dentine is made up of [...]
Cyberchondriac
Teeth Maestro’s Buzzword for this week is Cyberchondriac noun; A person who searches for health information online.
There are about 6 million more cyberchondriacs in the United States than the previous year reaching a massive total of 117 million according to Harris Interactive. What remains to be seen how soon will the change come [...]
EU Creating a Blood Substitute
The European Union is in a 3-year research grant to create the perfect alternative for human blood. Research has gone to an extent that they have found the perfect material that can be sterilized hence rendering it disease-free and is also able to traverse the smallest of blood capillaries. This fluorinated hydrocarbon is [...]
Human testing in Pakistan
Before I begin, this post can very well be a simple rumor but I feel it is important enough to bring to your attention.
It has come to my attention that US & UK based pharmaceutical companies are sending experimental drugs to be tested on human subjects in Pakistan, they have hired services of certain doctors [...]
How to Compile Software in Visual?
As you all must know by now that I am a plain simple dentist, a little familiar with computers but not to the extent to be able to compile a source code - ;) I hear it ain’t too much of a big deal.
The software that I am after is open source and the source [...]
and the pictures……
Here are the pictures of the event we held at Alvi Dental Hospital to launch the 1st Dental Microscope in Pakistan - the event was well covered in the press, News reports appeared in PTV Khabarnama, ARY News, City News and Indus News, articles appeared in The News, Daily Times, Pictures were seen in many [...]
Freehand designs
It was for the very first time I played with Freehand Mx together with Photoshop to come up with these designs - In the process I got to learn a lot and now can attest to the fact that these two programs are indeed the BEST publishing softwares to date.
These 2′x5′ vertical banners which elaborate [...]
1st Dental Microscope Launched
I’m back ……
Today afternoon we had a very impressive ceremony at the Alvi Dental Hospital to launch the first dental Microscope was offically launched, the ceremony was attended by more then 250 influential poeple of Karachi with the Chief Guest as Justice (Retd) Saeeduzaman Siddiqui and also Mr. S H Hashmi the director of Orient [...]
