Surgeons’ body moves Bombay HC against PIL challenging dental council’s hair transplant guidelines
The applicant said that the present PIL has been filed “without thorough research and with malafide intent of restricting Oral and Maxillofacial surgeons to enter the area of hair transplant.”
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The central agency had initiated a probe against Jain based on the complaint which was being investigated by Vile Parle Police station by a property purchaser alleging cheating and breach of agreement between the parties (Express)The Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons of India approached the Bombay High Court with an intervention application in a PIL seeking action against their members who are dental practitioners, for performing aesthetic and hair transplant surgery, despite not being “qualified” for the same.
In an interim application filed on December 5 through advocates Harekrishna Mishra and Arun D Mishra, the association claimed that it is a necessary party in the PIL filed by Dynamic Dermatologist and Hair Transplant Association.
The applicant said that the present PIL has been filed “without thorough research and with malafide intent of restricting Oral and Maxillofacial surgeons to enter the area of hair transplant.” The application sought the Association to be made party respondent in the PIL and be heard.
The intervenor added that the PIL made unverified claims as the syllabus and curriculum of the oral and maxillofacial surgeons encompasses surgeries which are “far more strenuous, difficult, compound, complicated, intricate, laborious that when compared to the hair transplant which is merely an superficial one which has got to do everything only and only with scalp.”
The PIL has challenged the guidelines issued by the Dental Council of India (DCI) on December 6, 2022, permitting the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons to practice Aesthetic and Hair Transplant surgery. The PIL claimed that oral and maxillofacial surgeons are merely dentists who do not study hair transplants and are not trained to perform such surgeries.
It sought revocation of guidelines and action against “unqualified” practitioners indulging in aesthetic and hair transplant surgeries.
The HC is likely to hear the application along with the PIL on December 11
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