Clicky

ROAD SIDE DENTISTRY IN ASIA – REAL LIFE STORY AND PICTURES

An in-depth article analysing the the situation of dental quacks in India and wha the Government and dentists can do to correct the situation.

Harmful Effects Of Dental Quacks!

image source : youtube

  1. Dental quacks perform many dental procedures like extraction, fixing the tooth, filling the tooth, dental bleaching & excavation of caries.
  2. They don’t have proper instruments and they mostly use modified old instruments. Instruments are not autoclaved.
  3. Local anaesthesia is not administered properly. Many times alcohol is also administered to reduce the pain sensation by sedating the patient.

These quacks are very good in giving a cheap low quality material dentures that just fits. They use self cure acrylic directly intra-orally and fit them over gums.

The quacks provide all these treatments at dirt cheap price and for poorest of the patients that is the catch.

Complete dentures are given stability using suctions. This produces a negative effect on the palatal bone leading to bone resorption. If one start enumerating then there are many adverse effects. The list will keep increasing.


These photographs were taken around 9 years back by Dave Adair on his trip to India. Here the dentist quacks duo provide dentures and extract in their road side shop. Just have a look at the entire sequence of dental procedures that were snapped by Dave Adair.

Source : Dave Adair Photography

The Patient before treatment

Dentist Baba 1 preparing & shaping the denture on road with non dentist tools

Happy Patient ! ! !

Dentist Baba No.2 Giving LA for extraction

As per the photographer – He pulls out the heavy artillery, and the girl isn’t even sitting down – she’s squatting as Mr. Less-Colorful-Dentist CRANKS on her tooth.

We don’t know why she didn’t faint, because we almost did.

Extraction Done

As per the words of the She used a plastic bucket to rinse out her bloody mouth and spit into the gutter. But she doesn’t look any worse for the wear – and she said it didn’t hurt. She looks older, but she’s only 14.