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Gautam Govitrikar DMD

Jun 16, 2022 • 15 tweets • 12 min read • Read on X

The search for something for our clinic landed me in the heart of Ravivar Peth!

Any true blue Pune 4 native has his roots in the original Pune aka “The city area” or Pune 30!

A thread of what was meant to be a 30 mins visit which turned into a 3 hour walk!

Enjoy…….

Small narrow by lanes with chock a block shops doing brisk business but run down houses above which are but a mere shadow of their glorious past!

A common theme you will see often in this thread…

Beautiful architecture…….

A daily wage labourer resting his tired limbs after a hard day of physical work!

Ropes, ropes and more ropes!

Ganpati Bappa Moraya……

So many amazing temples seen……

So many different forms of everyone’s beloved “Ganpati Bappa” also captured…..

#GanpatiBappaMoraya

Bustling shops below and shut down houses above…….

The Original Mohan Ice Cream-apparently the inventor of “Gulkand Ice Cream!”

Always warms my heart to see a small store aka Mom and Pop store and friends sitting with the owner chatting away-the original FaceBook!

All along the temple just pulled me there……

विठ्ठलं विठ्ठलं……

As I said, the temples just kept pulling at me……

Without planning or realising it, I found myself at the King of Kings: Dagdusheth!!!!

Was lucky to reach just before the “Aarti”

What an apt name for this hole in the wall eatery right across from Dagdusheth-talk about being recession proof!

Loved the lamp post down the road-so beautifully designed!

Saw a tailor working away at his craft! He said his store has been there for 75 years-3 generations!

One of the most fascinating sights when you walk around in the city are the boards with “year of establishment”.-1893, 1848 etc.

Gives you an insight into how old this part of Pune is! As I said this was Pune back in the day!

Imagine-Deccan Gymkhana was “out of town”!

If I made it all the way to “Dagdusheth”, how could I not go to the “श्री दत्त मंदिर” and Kaka Halwai flagship shop!

Again reached just before the “Aarti”

Few more pics of old beautiful architecture…

Does the last picture remind people of any other iconic building?

As I was about to head back home, I found myself on the one and only “Laxmi Road”!

Too many pics to add here so will post a separate thread later……

#LaxmiRoad #NarayanPeth

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Gautam Govitrikar DMD

@Gautaamm

May 30

The magic of modern medical technology:

Patient calls on Tuesday morning in acute pain. See him. Complains of severe pain in the gums adjacent to a lower left premolar. Also unable to eat. Pain starting to radiate to ear.

Normally these are warning signs of a cavity invading the nerve and needs a root canal or extraction.

I took 2 X-rays of the offending tooth and both showed no pathology. The tooth did not respond to any diagnostic tests either.

There was some bruising on the gums which the patient himself attributed to toothbrush trauma.

I wanted to be sure so advised him to get a CBCT aka 3D scan to rule out internal resorption or a fracture. Placed him on an anti inflammatory.

The patient called in the evening stating he was in very acute pain and just not able to eat anything. He was on his way to get a scan.

I put him on a stronger anti inflammatory. I probed a little about temperature sensitivity and he said now having ice cream was providing total relief from pain!

BINGO!

That’s the textbook test to establish diagnosis of partial necrosis aka the nerve was dying. As a result, there are gases formed and that’s the cause of intense pain.

Applying cold to the tooth acts to reduce the intensity and hence provides relief from pain.

But the question of basic cause still was a mystery.

Imagine my surprise when I got the results of the scan and there was a very small cavity in the tooth and a very tall nerve, neither of which were seen on the X-ray.

The scan shows the inside of the tooth from the top, front and side at 1 mm slices. It is also more sensitive and hence was able to detect a cavity not seen on a 2D X-ray.

I got the patient in the next day and started his root canal. Needless to say the nerve was almost dead.

The patient has not had any acute pain since then and was finally able to eat and also get some sleep.

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Gautam Govitrikar DMD

@Gautaamm

Apr 6

Took the kids on a joy ride on the Metro today!

I never imagined we would have one in Pune in their liferime!

One of my favourite aspects are the various scenes we get to witness from the Metro that we would normally be fortunate to experience.

Like the various bridges…..

Some more bridges and some tracks…..

From a circus with a Ferris wheel to trees in full bloom to bales of hay at a stud farm to bare twigs and branches all within the heart of the city!

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Gautam Govitrikar DMD

@Gautaamm

Feb 13

Pune has always had a rich tradition of “Ganpati mandals.” Associated with the same is a history of “Dhol Tasha troupes”.

Schools like Ramanbaug,Numavi and Jnana Prabhodini have had one for a long time. In the early 1990’s, 2 school boys yearned to play in a Dhol Tasha troupe.

They approached their “Shakha Shikshak” with a request to have their own Ganpati mandal, mainly so they can play the Dhol Tasha.

The shikshak agreed to have a 1.5 day Ganpati and the boys were able to get started with their Dhol Tasha dream.

Back then, any such organisations were invariably named after “Shree Ram” and so the “Shree Ram Pathak Charitable trust” was born.

The children raised some funds from their own parents and purchased the first few Dhol Tasha instruments and started practicing.

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Gautam Govitrikar DMD

@Gautaamm

Jan 13

https://twitter.com/i_sudeepa/status/1746004437980917828

I have said this so often!

When you are a student, you are either in a university town or urban America and surrounded by people your age.

Happy hours and weekend parties help build a decent social life.

When you start working, that starts dwindling.

Specially if you are

https://twitter.com/i_sudeepa/status/1746004437980917828

Now in rural America in states like Ohio, Idaho, Nebraska which does not a lot of Desi folks living there.

Eventually comes the inevitable move do suburban life, which is when the loneliness really sets in.

Weekdays are pretty much occupied by work ans household chores.

Weekends are consumed by grocery shopping and laundary. Social life is usually meeting local friends on Friday and/or Sat night and some outing on Sunday.

If you live on the East Coast, you are more or less living a life similar to the lockdown during COVID from Nov to April.

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Gautam Govitrikar DMD

@Gautaamm

Nov 1, 2023

Healthcare in India is set for a major overhaul.

@ThePollLady shared this article the other day:

#India #Healthcare #VentureCapital #Doctors #Hospitals

Initally healthcare was a Patient-Doctor relationship.

Then the Corporate Hospital Ownership came in and made it slightly commercial. People don't realize that this arrangement made it possible for doctors to avail of world class technology and deliver the best healthcare.

Now we have Venture Capitalists from Wall Street in the frame.

They are a purely financial institution and are only coming in to increase their profits by a large number.

They view a Hospital in the same way they view a Hotel or they view a Start up like Peter Thiel viewed FB.

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Gautam Govitrikar DMD

@Gautaamm

Oct 30, 2023

Dental treatment gets a bad rap for being "painful".

If done by a well qualfied, skilled dentist with proper diagnosis and anesthesia, there is usually zero or near zero pain.

The pain and discomfort if any is usually during the healing phase.

There are 2 factors that are

responsible for this.

The difference in how the person's body and immune system reacts to surgery and dental procedures ARE surgeries. No one can predict that.

The other, and more relevant factor, is how well the patient follows the post operative instructions.

Medications are an integral part of any surgical treatment and if not taken as prescribed means basically the treatment is incomplete.

Now I will come to the main point.

Anti inflammatory and/or pain medications.

Anytime there is trauma, either due to injury or surgery,

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