AISO

Author: Pavel Scarlat

On the last days of October 2011, the Association of Italian Dental Students (AISO) had the honor to organize the XLI National Congress and LIX General Assembly, which gathered together students and young dentists from more than 20 Italian Universities, as well as international students. The event has successfully covered the students’ thirst of dental scientific knowledge through presentations and workshops, and has gathered together the leaders of the dental student local and national community.

Poster Presentation

The first day of the Congress has offered to the students the chance of attending great presentations in the fields of maxilo facial surgery, implantology, endodontics and prosthetics, held by Professors from Naples, Palermo, Torino, Foggia and Chietti.

The second part of the day has offered a multitude of workshops: Implantology Workshop (GEASS), Endodontics Workshop (Komet), Diagnostic Imaging workshop(BIotec), Sutures workshop, Dental Sensitivity Course (GABA/Colgate) and a Course of Endooral Photography. The attendants were granted with a free of charge participation at the aforementioned workshops.

Scientific Presentation

The most awaited event of the day was the AISO Lecture Contest during which the most talented and involved in dental research students, have competed for the appreciation of the Jury, as well as for the numerous prizes offered by the generous sponsors: a) Theoretical-practical workshop “Maxilo Facial human anatomy on a dead body” at the Charles 1^st University of Prague(Czech Republic), b) hand piece from “Miglionico” c) dental loupes (UK dental loupes),  d)Theoretical-practical course of human anatomy with oral surgery applications in Sofia, Bulgaria e) Instrumental kit (Komet) and a special prize from AISO.

General Assembly

The following brave students were granted with the awards, which came as a result of their hard work:

The best research project in Orthodontics: Carlotta Piccolo,

The best research project in Oral Pathology: Serena Iacovelli

The best research project in Implantology: Lino Locurcio

The best project in Endodontics: Francesca Corrado

The best project in Periodontics: Flavia Iaculli

Gala Dinner

The day has ended in an Amazing “Cena di Gala” (Gala Dinner), which has offered the most vivid example of Italian beautifulness and glamour.

On October 29^th it was organized the General Assembly which started with presentations and annual reports of the local committees/members. New policies were put under debate and voted.  A positively voted decision which is of an international interest, is the will of AISO of officially making the proposal to organize the IADS Congress 2013 in Bari.

AISO-Congress

The day has ended with the elections procedure and for this purpose we would like to congratulate the new AISO officers, and special congratulations to the AISO National Exchange and Scientific Officer for IADS – Mirko Bascianni.

Gaetano Iluzzi – President of the AISO Congress Organizing Committee:

“ We are glad  that the event has gathered together so many Italian as well as international students, offering to them a very good set of workshops, scientific presentations and the possibility to interact with each other. We would be honored to host the IADS Annual Meeting 2013 and we are ready to make an official proposal”

Implantology Workshop

This year’s AISO National Congress will remain for a long time in the memory of the attendants, as it has been successfully serving the student’s interests for education, knowledge as well as creating strong friendship bonds.

Village day

International Dental Summer School 2011 is the second generation of captivating Summer school organized by Dental School of Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta Indonesia. The program is combining academic and clinical activity .The aims of IDSS are to broaden students’ knowledge in Dental Health care in Indonesia and to let International students gain practical experience in Dentistry that as we know, in developing country everyone will witness the impact of poverty on dental health that in conclusion the quantity and quality of dental morbidity is way higher than we find in western countries. IDSS also  allows participants  to perform subjective and objective examination, diagnose and treatment in modified Problem Based Learning system. There are 2 major programs that IDSS offers. First is Educational program that consist of Activities in University, Clinical Visits and Voluntary work.

IDSS 2011

The second one is Non-Educational Program with some intercultural activities and city tour. IDSS is already arranged in 3 weeks program with different topic each week. Preventive and Promotive/ Prophilaxis Dentistry for the 1^st week followed by Curative and Rehabilitative Dentistry ( ART and LSTR 3 Mix MP) and Herbal medicine and Acupuncture. The educational program requires some layers of education which started with the class and followed by tutorial discussion, Skill lab activity, clinical visit and voluntary work, and ended with case report presentation.

The main clinical activity of International Dental Summer School 2011 was Voluntary work. The activity was conducted in a village that indeed has high number of cases. The participants worked on some divisions based on the operator’s chart such as Sterilization, Physical Examination, Operator Assistance, Prescription, and Public Dissemination (to do such fun dental education with villagers), curative treatment ( ART, 3MP and extraction ). The activities were all actually the extension of skill lab activity in which after getting the basic knowledge and skill training, the students were expected to become all capable to do anything needed in Voluntary Work.

Prophylaxis

There were 12 participants participated IDSS 2011. They’re coming from Poland, Taiwan, Czech, Slovakia, Denmark, Finland, and Turkey. All participants had accomplished Educational Program very well. It’s really great to see their enthusiasm and and excitement on the program . For the detail of IDSS 2011 itself, IDSS 2011 had 2 new programs. First was Village Day which let participants experience how to be Indonesian Villagers. The participants would do the same activities as what the local villagers do. The tour around the village would be prior to other activities. This would be continued by villagers activities in such as Rice field digging, traditional game and sport, fish farming, bathing the cows, planting the corn and so forth. In the night time, the participants and the committee members  slept in Villager’s house and socialize with the people surrounding.  .The second one was Social Work and Trauma Healing Project that was conducted in a Shelter of  Merapi volcanic refugees. The purpose of this project was to heal the psychological trauma on the refugees and also to perform a social work with the local government.

Voluntary work

Beside Educational Program , IDSS 2011 also offered Non educational Program that consist of city tour and intercultural activities like international expo and international dinner. In city tour, both participants and some committee members will visit the famous tourism objects that also had historical value like Borobudur Temple, Prambanan Temple, Vrederburg Fortress , Tamansari Watercastle, Sultan Palace, Ramayana Ballet and also clay arts center in Kasongan and silversmith center in Kota Gede. The participants also will go to some beaches like Parangtritis, Krakal, Baron and Kukup and in the afternoon all participants and committee members will enjoy the barbeque party in the beach. IDSS 2011 also offered Rafting and tropical camping and outbond this year.

We will have the same International Dental Summer School program next year on July 2012. The application period is started as of 11th August 2011 untill 11th May 2012. The Educational Program costs 380 € including hotel, transportation, breakfast and lunch and official parties (this doesnt include travelling cost, visa and tour). Social Program cost about 100 € . . The maximal quota is 25 participants. For more information, please contact us on idss2012@yahoo.com and our official facebook acount at IDSS MUY also Esti Riyanda Astuti, SKG as the Executive Steering Committee Chief (phone: +6281345924309, facebook: Esti Riyanda). So we welcome you next summer. Get the application form, fill it and send it back to us  via idss2012@yahoo.com. Get ready to experience a dental experience to remember.

Read also about the IDSS here: http://www.oemus.com/archiv/pub/gim/aim/2011/aim0311/