© 2017 Contemporary Clinical Dentistry | Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow I recently had the honor and pleasure to participate as a speaker at a conference in Punjab state and met with the leaders and members of the Indian Dental Association (IDA), Amritsar branch, and the administrators, faculty members, and students of dental colleges from the Punjab Government Dental College and Hospital,...

Mr Chairman, Distinguished Guests, Friends and Colleagues: I am greatly honoured to speak at the 4 TTSH Oration following such distinguished luminaries like Dr Chew Chin Hin, Dr Chen Ai Ju and Professor N Balachandran. I also wish to thank all of you who are present this evening. We are indeed fortunate to be alive at this moment in history. We are not only entering a new millennium—we are witn...