A three year old child Rayan, was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, a fatal form of blood cancer, which causes damage and death by of normal cells in the bone marrow, and slowly spreads to other organs
Rayan is now in URGENT need of a bone marrow transplant. He has not been able to find the perfect match which will help increase his chances of survival. Once the match is identified the donation is easy, maybe slightly inconvenient but imagine the gift of life that you will give for saving the life of a 3 year old young boy
We would like to request you to take a bone marrow compatibility test, and if a match is identified then a non-surgical method to borrow some of your bone marrow cells for infusion into Rayan
Alvi Dental Hospital well act as a collection center for anyone willing to come in for a Saliva test. we are open six days a week from 9:30am to 8:00pm walk in and someone from our team will help do the quick & painless cotton swab sampling of your cheek
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Sharing an interview of Dr. Awab Alvi published on TEDBlog on Friday November 5th 2010.
For years, orthodontist Awab Alvi has been an outspoken political activist via his blog, Teeth Maestro. With the onset of disastrous flooding in his native Pakistan this July, Awab traveled to the front lines, delivering food and supplies to flood victims. Though the after effects of the floods have caused personal family tragedy, Awab’s fierce love for and faith in his country make him optimistic about the future.
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The biggest hinderance for any person with crooked teeth is to have the courage to get metal braces, quite often the fear of a horrid social impact deters many from having braces, many instead choosing to live with their naturally (but crooked teeth) teeth, fearsome of the horrible wedding pictures with a “metal braces look” or even suffer work place taunting of having a “metal mouth“. At times transparent / ceramic braces may help hide a bit of the “metal braces look” but it may still not be sufficient to convince you to get the treatment.
Alvi Dental Hospital is proud to have recently entered into an association with a german company to provide high-end digitally custom fabricated lingual braces which are tuned to quickly straightening of your teeth in the shortest time possible, the lingual braces are tucked in the backside of your teeth, no one needs to know you are having braces unless you deliberately open you mouth wide enough to show them, else within a short span of time, you are guaranteed to have straighter teeth. These braces are casted in Gold alloy this enables a clean and pristine treatment without any allergic reactions or discoloration of teeth
Dr. Awab Alvi has been extensively trained in the precision treatment of lingual orthodontics during his post graduate training at Saint Louis University. The classical and older designs of lingual braces were cumbersome and the overall treatment took longer then regular braces, we at Alvi Dental Hospital never truly offered this option to our patients, Until the improvement in technology to custom fabricate these lingual braces perfectly for each person
Now with drastic improvement in technology Alvi Dental Hospital is proud to be one of the first few dental practices to offer computer precision designed lingual braces for your teeth, a huge advantage of quicker treatment without the hassles and problems of the standard (older) lingual orthodontic treatment. All without no one ever knowing that you got braces, since everything was conveniently hidden behind your teeth
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On the 4th of June Karachi witnessed an amazing event in the form of TEDxKarachi organized by a team of volunteers, in which Dr. Awab Alvi as a TEDIndia fellow curated the first session of the meeting. The event was organized under the official license from the TEDx organization and showcased seven speakers who motivated the audience with their own inspirational stories in the trademark 18-minutes TED Talks. The speakers were
- Chris Anderson, Curator, TED
- Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder/CEO, Acumen Fund
- Roshaneh Zafar, Founder/CEO, Kashf Foundation
- Asad Umar, CEO, Engro
- Monis Rahman, Founder/CEO, Naseeb Networks
- Asad Rezzvi, CEO, e-Cube Global
- Joshinder Chaggar, Theater Artist
It was followed by an Op-ed by Dr. Awab Alvi published in his weekly column at Express Tribune on 11th of June. Videos and Pictures of the event can be seen at the TEDxKarachi website
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Alvi Dental Hospital is please to update that Dr. Awab Alvi [Blogs as Teeth Maestro] has recently been selected as a TEDIndia Fellow for his leadership capabilities and his innovative work in Pakistan. The selection to this TED Fellows group was limited to bringing together some brilliant future leaders from this region together.
Of the list of 103 TEDIndia Fellows from around the world Dr. Awab Alvi is one of the five Pakistanis who would be invited to Mysore for a four day networking conference to meet and exachange ideas amongst probably the future innovators of the world
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We at Alvi Dental Hospital are proud to have a Dental-Surgical Microscope (Carl-Zeiss) since 2004, a first ever for Pakistan and probably till one of the few rare practices that utilize a dental microscope in Pakistan. Its also surprising that only 2% of all practicing dentist in the US, use this as a tool to achieve perfection, while the worldwide percentage is barely in the fractions.
The microscope is used to do dentistry at 24x magnification, which is a substantial leap from the 1x by the naked eye (which most dentists use) or 3x with magnification glasses. You can actually do more acurate dentistry overall. We are now the only dentist in Pakistan to perform Microscopic Endondontics now have the ability to do cutting edge dentistry right here in Pakistan.
Call our offices to set up an appointment for a pain free, highly accurate root canal treatement with Dr. Awab Alvi
