Ashwini Bhalerao
Personal Information
Name: Ashwini Bhalerao
Address: 703-B, Prachi, Juhu-Versova Link Road Andheri (West), Mumbai 400 053
Country: India
Phone: 0091 9820095453
E-Mail: ashwinib1170@gmail.com
Languages: English
Education and training
1991
Bachelor in Dental Surgery – Nair Hospital Dental College (India) Dental Colleges of India at University Gold Medallist in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
1993
Master in Dental Surgery (Oral & Maxillofacial) – Nair Hospital Dental College at Mumbai University Topper, India
2002
Post Graduate Diploma in Medico Legal Systems – Symbiosis Institute of Health Care, Pune, India.
Professional Life
Experience
1996 – present
- Director – Wisdom Tooth Oral Surgery Clinic
- Visiting consultant to 40 private dental practices
Awards
- Winner: Oral surgeon of the Year 2013 Award, Famdent Excellence in Dentistry Awards, Pan-India
- University Gold Medal in Oral Surgery in Undergraduate level
- University Topper in Postgraduate level
- Conferred the Famdent Excellence in Dentistry ‘Oral Surgeon of the Year’ Award in December 2013
Competences
Surgeries (Major)
- Reconstructive surgery post facial fractures
- Management of trauma to dento-alveolar complex
- Orthognathic surgeries
- Oral cancer and submucous fibrosis
- Treatment of cysts of jaws
- Management of dentofacial infections
- Excision of benign intraoral lesions and biopsy techniques
- Diseases of Temporomandibular joint
- Salivary gland disorders
- Mucosal and bone grafts
- Surgical placement of oral implants and associated surgeries
- Preprosthetic surgeries
- Prosthetic rehabilitation of oral cancer patients
- Closure of oroantral fistulae
Surgeries (Minor)
- Surgical removal of impacted teeth
- Extraction of teeth and roots
- Treatment of oral lacerations
- Dental surgeries of medically compromised patients
- Gingival surgery
- Orofacial pain
- Replantation of teeth
- Exposure of unerupted or partially erupted teeth
- Surgical endodontics
- Treatment of pre-cancerous lesions
- Dental implants
- Laser surgeries using CO2 and diode laser
- Instrumental in initiating the use of Piezo Surgical Unit in dental Implant related surgeries such as Sinus Lift, Ridge-split, Bone augementation.
- Use of Diode and CO2 laser for all soft and hard tissue procedures
Memberships
- Member of Group Study Exchange Program of the Rotary International Foundation to Florida, USA
- Rotarian Member
Publications
- 3 Papers published in ‘Famdent’, a widely read dental journal in India and abroad on:
– The management of Syncope
– The management of a Diabetic patient
– The management of a Hypertensive patient
- Paper presentation on ‘Dental implants made easy’ organized by the Indian Medical Council.
- Paper presentation on ‘Rehabilitation of the Oral Cancer patient’ at CME workshop in BSES MG Global Hospital.
- Paper presentation on ‘Wisdom Teeth Surgeries’ at Famdent annual conference – June 2013.
- Conducted modules on “Oral Surgery in daily practice” for dental clinicians.
- Course director of ‘SURGITRAIN’, an intensive course on clinical oral surgery
- Conducts courses on ‘Direct and Indirect Sinus Lift’
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