Pooja Toshniwal Paharia

M.D.S (OMR) - Masters in Dental Surgery (Oral Medicine and Radiology)

Oral Medicine, Radiology

Pooja Toshniwal Paharia is an oral and maxillofacial physician and radiologist based in Pune, India. Her academic background is in Oral Medicine and Radiology. She has extensive experience in research and evidence-based clinical-radiological diagnosis and management of oral lesions and conditions and associated maxillofacial disorders. Her expertise involves diagnosing and managing potentially malignant as well as malignant lesions and conditions, temporomandibular joint disorders, orofacial pain conditions, salivary gland disorders, developmental anomalies, dental management of systemic conditions and medical emergencies, etc. using conservative treatments inclusive of medications, physiotherapy, biofeedback coupled gold standards such as surgical excisions and advanced techniques such as low-level laser therapy and transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation.

During her post-graduation, she received accolades at several national and international conferences for her scientific research papers and the Academic Excellence Award for two consecutive years at her educational institute. Her field of interest has always been the use of advanced and non-invasive novel diagnostic as well as therapeutic techniques for maxillofacial disorders to provide an improved standard of care to patients. She has worked extensively on several research projects based on molecular spectroscopic analysis of proteins and nucleic acids and radiological assessment of morphological alterations correlated with disease severity in potentially malignant conditions. She has also worked on systematic reviews on the immunological management of Sjogren’s syndrome using novel monoclonal antibodies. As part of her post-graduation curriculum, she has undertaken several scientific writing assignments based on weekly reviews of constantly updated scientific literature published in peer-reviewed medical journals.

She is currently working as a consultant oral and maxillofacial radiologist at an advanced dental diagnostic center in India and provides three-dimensional and accurate radiological diagnostic information to doctors and patients on several dental conditions. Pooja is passionate about writing and dental health. Outside of work, she enjoys art, music, traveling, reading, and cooking.

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COVID-19 risk substantially reduced in seniors who receive 4th mRNA booster

In a recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers in Singapore estimated the effectiveness of the second booster (fourth dose) vaccination with messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines against symptomatic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant and associated hospitalizations with among individuals aged ≥80 years.

14 Sep 2022

Parenteral-prime mucosal boost an effective strategy to protect against SARS-CoV-2

In a recent study published in the journal eBioMedicine, researchers in Denmark and Sweden administered a cationic liposome-adjuvanted severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike (S) protein subunit vaccine as a subcutaneous (s.c.) prime-intranasal (i.n.) boost strategy to elicit mucosal immune responses among SARS-CoV-2-infected Syrian hamsters.

14 Sep 2022

First report of a SARS-CoV-2 variant with an ORF7a deletion that dominated an outbreak

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers in Australia determined whether severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Delta-ORF7aΔ17del [open reading frame 7a protein with 17-nucleotide (nt) frameshift-inducing deletion] variant has a fitness advantage over the Delta variant lacking the ORF7aΔ17del deletion (Delta-ORF7aintact) and/or the SARS-CoV-2 lineage (A.2.2).

12 Sep 2022

Research supports use of FFP2/3 masks for HCWs caring for COVID-19 patients

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers in the United Kingdom assessed the aerobiology of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in United Kingdom (UK) hospitals and the impact of aerosol-generating procedures (AGP).

12 Sep 2022

Vaccines that induce mucosal immunity against SARS-CoV-2 are needed

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers in the United Kingdom studied assessed plasma and nasal antibody (Ab) responses induced after a year of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-associated hospitalization and the potential boost by subsequent severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccinations in the United Kingdom (UK).

12 Sep 2022