[Guite]

Originally Posted by Jaguar

Have you tried changing your barber? The upscale ones don't use the white stone. And you can always ask the barber to use electric trimmers for the neck area to further reduce the risk of cuts.

I keep changing as per convenience. This particular barber shop is inside our residential colony, so extremely convenient. Thanks for the tip on electric trimmer.

[adhiraj]

Any general surgeons in the house? Had some query.

Thanks

[praful]

Looking for good recommendations for ENT doctors in Bangalore? Need to show someone in the family suffering from BPPV and Tinnitus.

[Eddy]

Originally Posted by Eddy

Wife is suffering from neck, back & knee pain suddenly. Any good ortho recommendation would help, preferably in Gurgaon / Dwarka.

Update: We visited Dr Ravi Sauhta at his clinic

Krishna Speciality Clinic, 101-D, Supermart-II, DLF City Phase IV, Gurgaon,

Looks like he was able to identify the root cause of the pain and the medication is helping (no painkillers).

[carboy]

My mom had a root canal done recently of one of back teeth. After the root canal was done, she refused to have a permanent crown fitted. I am trying to convince her to do so. But what are the problems if she doesn't agree?

[ritz3645]

Originally Posted by carboy

My mom had a root canal done recently of one of back teeth. After the root canal was done, she refused to have a permanent crown fitted. I am trying to convince her to do so. But what are the problems if she doesn't agree?

I a patient, had root canal done in early 2000. I never got a crown, and the tooth had cement plus silver on top only. As there was no crown, first the cement came out in like 5 years, and later two of four developed structural damages and had to be removed.

[cunnuvila]

Originally Posted by praful

Looking for good recommendations for ENT doctors in Bangalore? Need to show someone in the family suffering from BPPV and Tinnitus.

Dr. Surya Prakash is good for vertigo, says my friend who is working in MS Ramaiah. You can see him at Ramaiah or Silverline at Kalyan Nagar. Hope this helps.

[carboy]

Originally Posted by ritz3645

I a patient, had root canal done in early 2000. I never got a crown, and the tooth had cement plus silver on top only. As there was no crown, first the cement came out in like 5 years, and later two of four developed structural damages and had to be removed.

What do you mean 'two of four'? Did you do root canal treatment on 4 teeth and put a crown for those 4?

[ritz3645]

Originally Posted by carboy

What do you mean 'two of four'? Did you do root canal treatment on 4 teeth and put a crown for those 4?

Hi, my 4 teeth got root canal procedure done. No crown was fitted on any, hence they suffered structure damage in long term.

[Happysmiles]

Originally Posted by carboy

My mom had a root canal done recently of one of back teeth. After the root canal was done, she refused to have a permanent crown fitted. I am trying to convince her to do so. But what are the problems if she doesn't agree?

Root canal treatment, basically means removing the infected nerve and blood supply to the tooth and later filling certain materials, so as to maintain the function of the teeth for eating.

Now the vital tooth becomes non vital i.e alive tooth becomes essentially dead. Therefore, the root canal treated tooth which is now dead eventually becomes brittle over the course of time and causes fracture, or structural damage as Ritz 3654 mentioned.

To avoid fracture and structural damage a crown is placed on the tooth.

Ask your mother to get the crowns made asap.

[JustStarted]

Looking for some info on Partial Nephrectomy, my father has lesion in right kidney in mid pole of approx 11mmx14mm, and we are in middle of deciding where to get it done

also we should go for open, laproscopic or robotic ?

we are inclined towards robotic , so looking for right hospital,we can travel to new Delhi, Hyderabad or Mumbai.

anyone have any recommendation ?

Thanks,

[Eddy]

Originally Posted by carboy

But what are the problems if she doesn't agree?

She will ultimately lose the tooth. It happened to me as well, although it survived a good 15-16 years. Maybe that was because I got the root canal done even before my teenage.

[fine69]

Adulterated Drugs?

My wife gets migraine headache about 3-4 times a month. Our family doctor recommended 2 tablets - Stemetil and Naxdom. One to be taken immediately and then another after 30 mins.

Now my sister from USA was visited us about 2 weeks back and suggested that she take 2 ibuprofen tablets as they are better. For the first time ever, my wife's migraine was cured within an hour of taking those tablets. Even with stemetil and naxdom she had to ultimately sleep to actually get rid of the headache.

This got me thinking and I went to the doctor and asked what's so special about those ibuprofen tablets and why shouldn't she take the same instead of stemetil and naxdom. The doctor said that the 200mg ibuprofen tablet that my sister was carrying (she visisted him earlier so that doctor had a look at those tablets) was way better than the 400mg tablet available in India.

He said that if I could get my hands on those ibuprofen tablets then its better than any other drug for migraine.

I wanted to check with the doctors in the house, are drugs really that adulterated in India? Lastly, though my sister left me a 200 tablet box is there a way to get those in India through any channel and is that perfectly legal?

[Thad E Ginathom]

Originally Posted by fine69

I wanted to check with the doctors in the house, are drugs really that adulterated in India? Lastly, though my sister left me a 200 tablet box is there a way to get those in India through any channel and is that perfectly legal?

Call at your local medical shop?

I have not taken it for a while, but I have Brufen 200 in my medicines box, obtained very simply, legally, and easily from local pharmacy.

I do not know its status here, but it is an OTC medicine in UK.

[fine69]

Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom

Call at your local medical shop?

I have not taken it for a while, but I have Brufen 200 in my medicines box, obtained very simply, legally, and easily from local pharmacy.

I do not know its status here, but it is an OTC medicine in UK.

Ibuprofen is very much available. What my doctor told me was that what a 200mg ibuprofen does (the one my sister was carrying from US) shouldn't be expected from the 400mg ibuprofen commonly available with the chemists in India.

It didn't make sense as the salts are expected to the same throughout the world so I thought let me get a second opinion here as well.