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/

Mirjana Spasojevic and Pavel Scarlat

International Association of Dental Students and the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations have agreed to strengthen the bond in order to serve the interests of the worldwide health student community. The act of collaboration was officiallized within a Memorandum of Understanding which was signed by both parties during the 60^th IFMSA General Assembly in Denmark.

The 60^th IFMSA General Assembly was a greatly organized event which gathered together 1300 medical students from all over the world. The International Association of Dental Students was represented by Pavel Scarlat who has assured the successful establishment of the IADS – IFMSA Memorandum of Understanding. The IADS Delegate has participated at the Standing Committee Meetings, Plenary Sessions, Regional Meetings, Training Sessions and other activities with the purpose of exchanging knowledge in terms of project logistics and organization matters.

IFMSA

The Executive Committees of IFMSA and IADS have agreed to support and encourage the collaboration between all medical and dental students at a local, national and international level.  The agreement would emphasize mainly on assisting IADS in developing a Training Program, expanding the Dental Research Exchange Program and assistance in connecting with dental/medical student communities outside of the organization.

IADS/IFMSA

Both organizations will be represented annually by its’ delegates attending the Annual Meetings and assuring a successful continuity of the collaboration. The MOU was signed for a period of 2 years with the option of it being renewed or changed when agreed by both parties.

IFMSA General Secretary 2011-2012 – Mirjana Spasojevic:

“Signing this MoU between IADS and IFMSA is a beginning of I believe new era of cooperation. I wish we move from paper work to practical work and in years to come, we organize some joint trainings, we exchange our trainers, work together on local level and be present together on our meetings. I believe that dental and medical students have so much in common and that we should work together much more.

From all over the globe

IADS President 2008-2010/ IADS – IFMSA MOU co-author – Tomaz Spindler:

“I fully support the tight collaboration between IADS and IFMSA. It is important that two of the biggest medical related associations collaborate, share experience and strive towards same goals. I hope these are just small steps to future collaborations and that we will see more of it in days to come”

The collaboration is considered to be an important milestone which will enhance and strengthen the bonds, activities between the worldwide medical and dental student communities.

Author:  Pavel Scarlat

AIM 03

The official Young Dentists Worldwide magazine AIM is out now with the 3rd issue of 2011 featuring:

- Interviews with young dentists from Hungary, India, Germany, Turkey and Japan

- Editorial: Dr. Irina Dragan, US

- Cover: Dr. Chandresh Shukla, India

- Articles about voluntary work in Sudan, India and at the Maledives

- Scientific articles about Ayurvedic Dentistry, Yoga, Hazards in Dentistry

and many more…

All together 100 pages full of interesting stuff around young dentistry. Enjoy it, share it and read it! If you are interested in writing for the magazine contact us the Editor-in-Chief Juliane Gnoth: juliane@un-plaqued.com

http://www.oemus.com/epaper/pub/gim/aim/2011/aim0311

Ionut Luchian

Pain has always been a challenge for every dentist no matter if we are talking about general dentistry or specialty dental treatment. Unortunately pain is still the main international reason which brings patients to the dental clinic. As young dentists or dental students we should always be aware that our successful management of patient’s pain before starting our treatment can represent a valuable business card.

Oral Implantology has become a trend among the patients and although it’s a relative new specialty, it has changed alot of concepts and replaced many classical therapeutical solutions.

Artjom Meier

As a young dentist is more difficult to convince your patients that you are well enough trained to provide him a high quality oral rehabilitation on implants and that patient should choose you instead of a more experienced doctor.

The main problem when you propose the implant solution instead of a classical bridge is the pain associated to the surgery itself. For most of the patients implant surgery sounds very complicated and painful. That’s why it is extremely important to convince the patient that sometime an extraction can be more complicated and painful than the surgery itself.

Intra-operative

x-ray post-operative

We will try to present you in this article some considerations about the intraosseous anaesthesia. We believe that these methods are applicable in every dental office and can increase your rate of success regarding pain management.

Although intraosseous has been introduced in dental practice for some time it’s still not that popular among all dentists. There are many systems for delivering intraosseous anaesthesia. The most used systems available are: X- TIP (Dentsply-Maillefer),STABIDENT (Fairfax Dental), QUICKSLEEPER (Dental HI TEC), INTRAFLOW (INTRAVANTAGE), HYPO (MPL Technologies).

xtip kit

The principal on which all intraosseous anaesthesia techniques base on is common and it refers to depositing the anaesthestic substance in the spongy bone after we have perforated the cortical with the special drill included in the kit. Although the procedure seems very painful and complicated you will be surprised how simple and efficient it is. Some systems have special guides that remain inserted in the bone and help the dentist to easily inject the anaesthetic inside.

Usually every intraosseous anaesthesia technique kit is single use and it includes a perforator, a guide canule and a special short needle. The clinical protocol includes the topical anaesthesia, the perforation of the cortical and the injection of the anaesthetic inside the spongy bone.

There are two different ways to deliver an intraosseous anaesthesia : the lateral perforation and the vertical perforation.

Horizontal perforation

If the lateral perforation is indicated when teeth are present in the dental arch, the vertical perforation is recommended to the edentated arches.

Vertical perforation

In implant surgery we use the vertical perforation and we can say that it is a minimally invasive technique because we use the same spot of perforation were the incicision will be made and the implants will be inserted in their neo-alveoles.

Vertical perforation

The question is why to choose a new and maybe more complicated anaesthesia technique instead of the classical one?

Some of the intraosseous anaesthesia advantages are:

-       The effect of the anaesthesia is almost immediate;

-       This type of anaesthesia requires a less quantity of substantance than the classical one and the toxicity is diminuated;

-       The classical technique mistakes can be avoided. This is very important for patients with special anatomy where young dentists can face difficulties in performing a qualitative anaesthesia;

Vertical perforation

-       The soft tissues like lips or tongue are no longer affected by the unpleasent effect of the anaesthesia;

-       The intraarterial accidental injection of the anaesthetic substance is eliminated;

Like any alternative technique it has disadvantages aswell:

-       Incapacity of perforating the cortical due to its’ thickness;

-       Local complications at the perforating spot;

-       It’s a more expensive technique compared to the classical one;

Intra-operative aspect

In conclusion we would like to say that the young dentists should keep in mind that intraosseous anaesthesia with vertical perforation is a minimally invasive, easy to learn and very efficient technique in implant surgery. This technique proved to be a real and viable alternative to the classical ones but without trying to become an absolutely neccessary substitute or a replacement of these.

Dr. Ionut Luchian, Romania, Immediate Past President of IADS

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Taj Mahal, Agra, Precongress

International Association of Dental Students (IADS) & Young Dentist Worldwide (YDW), the sister organizations which are actually leading and changing the new dental community, had this year their annual meeting in New Delhi, India. 2011 is a very special year for both associations because IADS is celebrating 60 years of existance and YDW 20 years of activity. This year’s meeting was organized and hosted by the Dental Student Welfare Association of India (DSWAI) under the chairmanship of Dr. Chandresh Shukla.

Dr. Chandresh Shukla

The event began with an impressive precongress in Agra. The precongress is usually more informal and has a main social-touristic dimesion. For two days the participants could familiarize themselves with the Indian culture and traditions. The organizers provided a full touristic programme including the famous Taj Mahal and the Fort from Agra. We were overwhelmed by the diversity of places that we got the chance to see in such a short time. The precongress was aswell the first opportunity for the participants to meet, for the first time, the famous Indian cuisine.

After the precongress we departured to New Delhi in order to attend the 58 IADS & YDW Annual World Dental Congress. Such a successful precongress early announced us that an amazing congress is about to begin. The participants were accomodated in a very nice hotel in New Delhi and the entire congress was scheduled to take place in the resort in order to avoid transfers between different points.

Opening Ceremony

Over more than 100 international students and young doctors and more than 300 Indian dental students gathered at this exlusive event to continue the traditional exchange of experience, knowledge and ways to approach dental education worldwide. They understood, once again, that every entity as made out of details and we, the details, are the ones that can put global chages into motion.

Incredible India

Our guests, DSWAI, surprised us with the presence of the FDI President, Dr. Roberto Viannia, the Minister of Coal, Mr. Shri Prakash Jaiswal ji and the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Mr. Rajeev Shukla at the opening ceremony.

The scientific part of the congress was a piece of resistance in the programme. Both well known Indian and international lecturers were invited and their presentations opened new perspectives for the dental students and young dentists. The traditional SCORE Lecture Contest was won for the first time in IADS history by an Indian student fact that brought even more joy in our hosts hearts.

The most important part of the congress, the IADS General Assemblies, took place in the hotel where the guests were accomodated and revealead once more that behind the friendly and sincere atmosphere there is also involved a huge amount of hard work. The democratic spirit, the will of rational debates and the reciproc respect of opinions were the atributes that characterized the GA’s. GA decided that the next congress will take place in Romania.

The new team of IADS

Another important aspect of the congress was the Young Dentists Wordwide General Assembly. The YDW GA underlined the need of filling in the gap between the fresh graduate and experienced dentist and encouraged all fresh graduates to join YDW and bring their contribution to improving  the international status of young doctors. If you ask me the new concept of „young dentistry” is the only one that will bring major positive changes in the dental world.

Congratulations to the new IADS Executive Commitee 2011-2012 under the presidency of Ms. Stefania Rado and see you all very soon in Egypt and afterwards in Romania!

Thank you India for showing us, as Gandhi said, that we „can be the change we want to see in the world”!

Ionut Luchian handed over the medal of the president to Stefi Rado

At the 27th of July, during the annual congress of IADS in New Delhi, India, a new Executive Committee was elected. The EXCO consists of the following persons right now:

Stefania Rado (Hungary) – President

Pavel Scarlat (Romania) – General Secretary

Babak Sayahpour (Germany) – Treasurer

Karolina Florykova (Czech Republic) – Editor

Cristiana Focseneanu (Romania) – International Exchange Officer

Ionut Luchian (Romania) – Immediate Past President

The new team of IADS

In the position of International Scientific Officer was elected Magdalena Wilczak (Poland).

Read more about the congress soon at Dentapress or visit the IADS-website: www.iads-web.org

Course with Prof. Bumann

From the 29^th of June till the 2^nd of July graduating students and young dentist met for the Dental Summer event at Timmendorfer Strand, to join a peak of professional dental training. After the number of participants already broke the record last year , this year the organization committee of the IFG (Internationale Fortbildungsgesellschaft) could delight even on an even higher number of interested parties.

Like last year already, the event was supported by the BdZA e.V. (the German young dentist association).  Already ahead of the dental summer event the new executive board of the BdZA, in office since IDS 2011, met for a workshop.  The Dental Summer event with a lot of participants was a great setting for the BdZA to discuss ideas and future goals with young dentists. The number of 250 graduating students and young dentists attending this year’s event did once more emphasize the efforts of IFG (Internationale Fortbildungsgesellschaft) for postgraduate training of young dentists. On the agenda of the BdZA workshop were not only the reports about the ongoing projects like “Working abroad” or “Salary of assistant dentists”; also subject was the “ Postgraduate education for young dentist”-which was already well performed at the Dental Summer event 2011.

Beachvolleyball-tournament

Not just the beautiful environment of the Timmendorfer Strand enticed young colleagues to join the Dental Summer. The IFG together in cooperation with the BdZA gave out 250 complimentary tickets for two days of the educational program for young dentists via www.dents.de, the booking of additional days were possible with great discount on the attendance fee.

In this amazing setting of Timmendorfer Strand a lot of well known contributors were present to offer a high-end educational program for young dentists.  The schedule was pleased to young dentists needs and contained lectures by Prof. Alexander Gutowski  “function and occlusion- farewell or resurrection” or by Prof. Bumann  who lectured about Functional Analysis of the jaw joints.  Another highlight was the 2 days workshop of Prof. Dr. Hans Eberspächer under the topic “Top-team coaching for your dental clinic”, a workshop also fitted for dental assistance and employees. An additional highlight was the introduction to the Art of Shaolin introduced by Gerhard Conzelmann and the monk Shi Yan Yan.

Young Dentists @ Dental Summer

Dental Winter coming up

In between the lectures the participant could relax at the beach with a nice cooled beverage and enjoy the sunshine especially in the first days.

The well performed educational workshops and speeches were rounded off by exciting after work parties, which took place in various locations of the MARITIM Hotel Timmendorfer Strand, if at the beach or in the garden of the hotel the atmospheres was relaxed and benefit the communication between the young dentists. The top party took place on the 1^st of July, live-music and free drinks let people celebrate till the early morning; the crowd was surprised by the breaking news- that there will be a dental winter in Ischgl for the first time in 2012!

The winning team

Teambuilding for the beach volleyball tournament

Next to the high class educational program a 3 days beach volleyball tournament took place and was a good alternation to the knowledge acquisition.  The organization committee was inspired by the worldwide reputation of the Timmendorfer Strand as a beach volleyball Mecca. In teams by 4 drawn by lots the participants got to know each other better and did fight together to win the match. Even more important than the victory was playing in a team and cheering for the other teams, all this made it to a great group experience. The participants of the Dental Summer event did enjoy their free time on the beach even with changing weather from cloudy to bright sunshine.

Watching the games

Information about the next Dental Summer and also about the new Dental Winter you can find at www.dental-summer.de and on www.dents.de

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Today, the second issue of the ALUMNI International Magazine went online under www.oemus.com/alumni-magazine. The official magazine of Young Dentists Worldwide came out with the second edition right before the YDW/IADS-Congress in India with articles about:

- The current situation in Greece

- Working in the Dominican Republic

- Becoming a dentist in Iran

- Ayurvedic medicine in dentistry

- Report and pictures from the last International Dental Show in Cologne

and many more. Check it out yourself and tell us how you like it. For all those who are interested in writing for AIM please contact the editor-in-chief Juliane: juliane@un-plaqued.com