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Winning a prestigious national award is a distinction in itself, but adding four world-acclaimed fellowships within a year has been an outstanding series of achievements for Dr Omkar Shetye of Vasco, a young Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon and Assistant Professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Goa Dental College and Hospital.
Dr Shetye won the Best Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon award at the recent 5th Annual Famdent Excellence in Dentistry Awards Mumbai on December 16.
He was the winner among the top 10 Maxillofacial surgeons to be nominated for the same and is the first Maxillofacial surgeon from Goa to win the prestigious title.
This year alone he has been awarded with four fellowships. In October, Dr Shetye was awarded the fellowship of the International College of Surgeons at the convocation ceremony in Chennai. He also has a fellowship in implantology awarded to him by the international Congress of Oral implantology, Singapore, in 2016.
Dr Shetye has also added further distinction by clearing the exams for International Board for the certification of specialist in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (IBCSOMS) conducted by International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (IAOMS) with its headquarters in USA. This fellowship will be presented to him by the international board at a convocation ceremony to be held in Brazil.
At the recent exams conducted by the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, he was one among the six fellow oral and maxillofacial surgeons from India and the only Goan to be successful. He will be now enrolled as the member of the Royal College of Surgeons and the convocation ceremony will be held in Scotland next year.
Dr Shetye has also been conferred by the Indian Board of OMFS as their Fellow for successfully clearing their certification exams at the annual conference of AOMSI held at Nagpur.
He has been striving hard to get his specialty recognized in the State. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is a unique specialty. Specialist oral and maxillofacial surgeons use their expertise to diagnose and treat a wide spectrum of diseases, injuries and congenital defects affecting the mouth, teeth, jaws, face, head and neck. He is actively involved in the activities of the Indian Dental Association and is currently Honorary Secretary of the Indian Dental Association, Goa State branch.
