VADODARA, India: The flow of Eastern philosophical and spiritual systems to the US has, since the 1960s, exerted a well-known and powerful influence on the development of a variety of subcultural movements critical of corporate greed. But it now seems that the cultural transfer has come full circle, with adopted Eastern traditions being reimagined in line with Western neuroscience and then marketed back to the Indian subcontinent. As a recent study from India has shown, the practice of one such system among undergraduate dental students has improved their clinical performance significantly, a result which has potentially far-reaching consequences for dental education.