BEAR DENTIST FROM CHICHESTER TO VISIT INDIA

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[image: Dentist Paul Cassar, who will be fitting the bear's golden-capped

tooth Photo no. C062405-2]

Dentist Paul Cassar, who will be fitting the bear's golden-capped tooth

Photo no. C062405-2

 

Paul returns to help dancing bears

CHICHESTER'S bear dentist Paul Cassar will be flying out to India again this

month for his third visit helping provide comfort to the nation's rescued

dancing bears.

 

A root-canal specialist, Paul has been helping give much-needed surgery to

the sloth bears, who were used by the nomadic kalandar tribe to make money

on the streets. The bears end up with horrific dental problems as a result

of having teeth removed when they are cubs or having ropes and rings put

through their noses.

 

On September 18 Paul and veterinary dentist Lisa Mileslla and new team

member Caroline Ingamells were planning to spend a week helping to put a

crown on a bear's tooth which has been damaged. The visit will also be a

chance to review the work they have done over the past year as part of a

project for International Animal Rescue, working in partnership with Indian

wildlife charity SOS.

 

" We are really looking forward to going back out there again, " said Paul

whose involvement with the charity started after be became a trustee in

2003. " The bears' behaviour has changed, they are now much livelier, happier

bears and they are less aggressive and eat better – these are things which

PHD students who have studied them before and after have noticed. "

 

Report in September 21 issue of the *Observer*

25 September 2006