The Affiliation of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons of India approached the Bombay Excessive Court docket with an intervention software in a PIL in search of motion towards their members who’re dental practitioners, for performing aesthetic and hair transplant surgical procedure, regardless of not being “certified” for a similar.
In an interim software filed on December 5 by means of advocates Hare Krishna Mishra and Arun D Mishra, the affiliation claimed that it’s a essential celebration within the PIL filed by Dynamic Dermatologist and Hair Transplant Affiliation.
The applicant stated that the current PIL has been filed “with out thorough analysis and with malafide intent of proscribing Oral and Maxillofacial surgeons to enter the world of hair transplant.” The appliance sought the Affiliation to be made celebration respondent within the PIL and be heard.
The intervenor added that the PIL made unverified claims because the syllabus and curriculum of the oral and maxillofacial surgeons encompasses surgical procedures that are “much more strenuous, tough, compound, difficult, intricate, laborious that when in comparison with the hair transplant which is merely an superficial one which has obtained to do all the things solely and solely with scalp.”
The PIL has challenged the rules issued by the Dental Council of India (DCI) on December 6, 2022, allowing the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons to apply Aesthetic and Hair Transplant surgical procedure. The PIL claimed that oral and maxillofacial surgeons are merely dentists who don’t examine hair transplants and usually are not skilled to carry out such surgical procedures.
It sought revocation of pointers and motion towards “unqualified” practitioners indulging in aesthetic and hair transplant surgical procedures.
The HC is more likely to hear the appliance together with the PIL on December 11
