Dental quacks are playing havoc with oral hygiene of rural people in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu with over 80 of them based in various parts of Tuticorin district and about 200 more in other parts.
According to Dr C Sivakumar, state secretary of the Indian Dental Association (IDA), fake dentists are ruling the roost in the rural pockets, where awareness on oral hygiene is very poor among the people. He said that a meeting to discuss the problems caused by these quacks was held in Tuticorin, on Sunday. There about 160 registered dentists in Tuticorin and they had identified about 80 quacks, who are having full-fledged clinics in the rural pockets.
