Dr Anas Patel

Dentist 🦷 🇨🇦 /BDS, MDS (Orthodontics) 🇮🇳

[CIHR @CIHR_IRSC]

Approx. 1 in 5 Canadians has high levels of Lp(a), an inherited risk factor for heart attack and stroke that regular cholesterol tests don’t detect.

Dr. George Thanasoulis helped improve access to a simple blood test that can uncover this hidden risk.

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[Dr Anas Patel @iamanaspatel]

@pxue Shawarma Palace, Ottawa on Bank & Hunt Club is the best shawarma in CANADA.

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@WalmartCanada @WalmartCanada sent you a DM, but nothing has been done on your end.

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@SaudiAirlinesEn Don’t see any discount from YYZ-BOM flight.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Sundown tonight marks the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, a time of fasting, prayer, and reflection.

I wish everyone observing Ramadan a blessed and peaceful month. Ramadan Mubarak.

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[• @Al__Quraan]

Sorry to interrupt your scrolling, but may your next trip be to Mecca. Ameen

[Dr Anas Patel @iamanaspatel]

@hilal_council The responsible organizations should come together and talk to Ulemas I am sure they have a solution for this.
Every second year Half of the region celebrates and the other half doesn't . Can we just not get United and celebrate Eid together in Canada 🇨🇦?

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@hilal_council Where was it sighted?
Plz name the country or region to avoid confusion.
Thanks

[Peel Region @regionofpeel]

Peel Public Health (PPH) is investigating a case of measles that was confirmed on March 4 with a recent history of international travel.

The public may have been exposed on the following flight or locations:

[Dr Anas Patel @iamanaspatel]

Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦 🍁

[HilalCouncilofCanada @hilal_council]

Assalamu Alaikum, Eid Al-Fitr Mubarak! There were multiple sightings of the new moon. Thus, tomorrow, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, is the 1st of Shawwāl 1445.

We encourage everyone to try sighting locally as well
عيدكم مبارك! تقبل الله منا ومنكم صالح الأعمال وكل عام وانتم بخير.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Today, few neighbors of my patient, a 33 year old man, came into my outpatient department to convey the message that he had died by suicide.

On the way to Kasargod town by train, he jumped on to the tracks from the moving train and was smashed to death.

He was sufferring from alcohol use disorder and barely survived a severe episode of severe alcohol-related hepatitis 4 months back. It took me and my department a whole lot of shouldering burdens to get him out of the ICU and discharge him home.

He went through a de-addiction protocol and was off alcohol for two months. But on that train, he was partly inebriated.

He left behind his wife, aged 29 and a cherub of a daughter, aged 3. People love to believe that there is an afterlife and the spirits of the deceased linger on out of love. These are consolation borne out of grief and loss. The young child's father died. The young wife's husband is no more. There is no afterlife. When some one dies, it is same as it was before birth. Nothingness. They become memories for the living to grow around and move on. And nothing more.

Value lies in living a life. Not in living to death.

Covid had destroyed his travel and photography business. He could never recover losses. It was as if, he decided he wanted to die, as he could hardly provide for his family and became dependent on his elderly parents. To die and to quit - alcohol use reinforces that decision very easily. Even if the best doctors work on it, the simplest of answers for the patient always lie at the bottom of a bottle - because temporarily, it takes you elsewhere, away from all worries and paints an inaccurate picture that eveything was going to be ok.

When people think about alcohol use, they always think about the liver. But there is more than meets the eye with alcohol use and the one I dread, because consequences are unpredicable, is alcohol's influence on the brain. It is terrifyingly close.

Alcohol use (sometimes even one drink a day)
➡️Can reduce brain volume and accelerate brain shrinkage
➡️Can reduce "gray matter," leading to brain degeneration
➡️Can make it difficult for consumers to make new memories
➡️Slows down how your brain processes information, making it harder to work out what you are really feeling and possible consequences of your actions
➡️Alcohol targets and feeds negative feelings inside your head - regardless of your mood
➡️Increases anxiety, depression, and other psychiatric disorders higher compared to non-drinkers
➡️Can increase risk of social anxiety disorder and panic disorder
➡️Alters sleep physiology, reduces rapid-eye movement stage of sleep, induces periodic limb movements during sleep and worsens sleep quality

You can never know what alcohol can really do to you - small or large. You can never be too sure either. Because if alcohol is your friend, trust me, you dont need any enemies.

I lost my patient. A family lost their son, husband and father. What can you do about it? Directly, nothing. But there is something we all can do. None of us can stop people from drinking or enjoying their drinks. We are all adults and the most intelligent ones take the right decision on alcohol use. To abstain from it.

But the other lesser intelligent ones, can still help. At least, STOP normalizing alcohol on social media - on Instagram, on Twitter (X), on Facebook, and on your Reels and Shorts. There is no style in it. There is no love in it. When you feel putting up photos of your alcohol escapades, try to deviate and put up another picture - of your dog, your flowers, your garden or a nice book collection or something that is useful for others. Do not give undeserving credit to this socially accepted poison.Take honor in not doing so, because this way, you can contribute towards your fellow humans well being.

[Shah Rukh Khan @iamsrk]

And God save me from people who tell me how films are made. I kinda know it cos I have done a few myself. Idiots!!!

[• @Alhamdhulillaah]

The joy a child can bring 🥹.

This Saudi couple adopted a child after trying for their own for 11 years.

[Dr Anas Patel @iamanaspatel]

@NealKravitz @JCOMag 🔥 🙌👌

[Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau]

Making your life more affordable. Improving our public health care system. Making dental care more affordable and accessible. Creating good, middle class jobs. We’re doing that – and more – with #Budget2023. Find out more at https://t.co/MvhPNgqEUh.

[Dr Anas Patel @iamanaspatel]

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary
13 years on twitter.
My favourite app 🙌

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@NealKravitz You are absolutely right Dr. I always give my own example to my ortho patient when I investigate preortho records. And yeah I do have supplemental tooth too so I share these stories.

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@NealKravitz A friend of mine was learning how to take a PA on me in our oral radiology posting. 🤣 and boom we saw something, which followed the detailed examination and that's how I came to know I have a cyst in my jaw.

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@NealKravitz I found out I have TBC accidentally in the 3rd year of dental school. No history of trauma. It's been there. I was asked to do a yearly follow-up by my professors.