M Pallonji

Six decades of saving teeth

When dental surgeon Dr Firoze Mirza started his practice, "the common man could not afford dentistry… The practice largely involved ‘remove teeth, put in plates’… The focus these days is to save teeth, to last a person for a life time,” he told us on August 26, 2021. The coming year, 2022, when he turns 90, will also mark the completion of six decades since Mirza, said to be the first to do so, began practicing dental implantology in India in 1962. "Don’t worry I am still young,” he stated, cheerily. The octogenarian practices privately in the Breach Candy area,......



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