Dr Ashok Utreja Select for Dr H S Shaikh Oration

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Chandigarh 01^st March:- Dr Ashok Utreja, Former Professor & Head Oral Health Sciences Center, PGI has been invited by the Indian Orthodontic Society to deliver the Dr H S Shaikh Memorial Oration at the 20^th PG Convention to be held in Amritsar from 3^rd to 6^th March 2016.

The PG convention of Indian Orthodontic Society is an annual event and is attended by more than 1200 PG students undergoing the course of MDS (orthodontics) at nearly 120 Dental Colleges from all over India. The title of Dr Utreja's Oration would be "Cleft & Craniofacial Orthodontics" based on his lifetime work in the field of Cleft Rehabilitation. Dr H S Shaikh, in whose memory this oration is delivered, was one of the founder members of IOS, was the first Professor& Head of Orthodontics at Government Dental College Mumbai. He is often referred to as "Teacher of Teachers" and is fondly remembered by current orthodontists even after his demise nearly 20 years back.