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Dealing with life’s challenges...I was happy to be invited to be part of the YDW family one year ago and participate actively in both issues of the AIM as member of the editorial board. It is a pleasure to welcome you here in the name of my colleagues from all over the world...
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“Leading the world to optimal oral health.” This is a sentence that has been around the globe for a while and has a meaning for every dentist. Taking FDI’s mission to the dentists is the responsibility of the current members and stakeholders of FDI. This had and will have an impact on the present and the not too far away future, but going one step forward, for a vision to come true, plans have to be done for the coming decades as well.
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4,380…You must be saying to yourself, “What a random way to start this article.” Well, let me get to the point. It will take me 4,380 days, or 12 years, of post-high-school training to be allowed to practice as an orthodontist. Broken down that is 5 years of undergraduate college at an American university, 4 years of dental school, and 3 years of orthodontic training.
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We would like to invite you to participate in an ambitious not-for-profit coaching project “DentCoach”. This global project started in September 2010 after consulting with Young Dentists Worldwide (YDW). The project is the logic follow-up of the successful project for young veterinarians VetCoach that was launched in August7. VetCoach (www.vetcoach.info) has produced 5 book editions and over 11,000 books, available in English and Spanish for Europe as well as North and South America.
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IDSS 2011 - A Dental Experience to Remember: International Dental Summer School 2011
Esti Riyanda Astuti
International Dental Summer School 2011 (IDSS) 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 we have.
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The 58th IADS & YDW Annual World Dental Congress, New Delhi, India.
Ionut Luchian, IADS Immediate Past President 2011–2012
If somebody would have told me years ago that I will be facing now the strange but very interesting feeling that sometimes the world is not enough I would have started laughing for sure. How can you describe in words something that you can consider part of yourself without being neither boring nor superficial? I think it’s indeed a difficult mission but a mission which must be accomplished.
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I am standing sleepless in the boarding gate at Madrid airport waiting to fly to Santo Domingo, where I’ll work as a volunteer dentist for two weeks together with five Spanish colleagues. As soon as I landed in Madrid from Athens, I searched for my Spanish colleague and we both rushed in order to weight our luggage and put in order the dental and medical equipment that we’re bringing with us.
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From time immemorial, generations in India and other countries have grown up hearing the grand Hindu Epic “Ramayana”. In this world famous epic of the Hindi poet Tulsidas, there is a description of a wonder herb called the “Sanjeevani booti” (Life giving herb), which according to the popular belief had given life to the dying “Laxmana”, the younger brother of Lord Shree Rama. Since then, the question of existence of such life-giving herbs has been floating in the minds of people. According to the Ramayana, the Sanjeevani booti is found in the Indian Himalayas and has the unique property of bioluminescence, which helps in its easy identification.
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Competitive environments, fear, guilt, anxiety, restlessness, anger, disorganization, bills, unemployment, poor sleep, etc. are factors that usually cause emotional stress. Related to these factors are several systemic and oral diseases, such as non-carious lesions (abfraction, erosion, abrasion, wear), periodontitis, xerostomia, burning mouth syndrome, autoimmune diseases (e.g. oral lichen planus) and cancer that might by triggered by the immunological disturbance that is caused by continuous persistent and no-functional stress.
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Dental professionals are susceptible to a number of occupational hazards. Relying on relevant literature, this paper discusses selected occupational hazards, including occupational biohazards, stressful situations, latex hypersensitivity as well as factors leading to musculoskeletal system diseases. Dentists belong to a professional group potentially exposed to harmful biological factors, which most often are infectious microorganisms, less frequently allergenic or toxic microorganisms. The fundamental routes of spreading harmful microorganisms are blood-borne, saliva-droplet, direct contact with a patient and with infected equipment, and water-droplet infections. In this paper, the current status of knowledge on microbiological hazards in a dentist’s work is presented, including groups of microorganisms, such as prions, viruses, bacteria, fungi and protozoa, to which a dentist is or may be exposed.
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Dental professionals are susceptible to a number of occupational hazards. Relying on relevant literature, this paper discusses selected occupational hazards, including occupational biohazards, stressful situations, latex hypersensitivity as well as factors leading to musculoskeletal system diseases. Dentists belong to a professional group potentially exposed to harmful biological factors, which most often are infectious microorganisms, less frequently allergenic or toxic microorganisms. The fundamental routes of spreading harmful microorganisms are blood-borne, saliva-droplet, direct contact with a patient and with infected equipment, and water-droplet infections. In this paper, the current status of knowledge on microbiological hazards in a dentist’s work is presented, including groups of microorganisms, such as prions, viruses, bacteria, fungi and protozoa, to which a dentist is or may be exposed.
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Ergonomics and usability have gained a lot of momentum in the last years. Employees and Employers in many industries started to spend time and money to think about how the workplace and its environment could be enhanced and how long-term damage to the dentists musculoskeletal system can be avoided. One possible answer: Change the dental foot controller.
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My arms are still sore from carrying around the movement boxes, so much that I was thinking about the last few weeks. Many things just happened. I passed the final examination, I had a nice prom and I moved out of the apartment I shared with a colleague and stored my belongings...
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The Orthodontic Program at the Hebrew University - Hadassah School of Dental Medicine in Jerusalem
Dr. Chen Israeli-Tobias, D.M.D
The Orthodontic Program at the Hebrew University—Hadassah School of Dental Medicine (HUJI) is the most prestigious post-graduate dental program in Israel. Every three years, a few selected resident dentists are accepted to this 31-year program and I feel fortunate to be one of the seven residents studying towards graduation in 2012.
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Brno is the second largest city of the Czech Republic and has nearly 370.000 inhabitants. It is located in the central part of Europe and as Prague is called “the heart of Europe”, Brno is called “the heart of South Moravia”. Brno was established as a city in the 13th century, but the first signs of settlement date back to the 5th century. Therefore the city is an important historical centre. But as we try to preserve sights and keep our traditions we also try to evolve and keep up to date.
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Charity plus adventure, camping and oral health, learning through helping and sharpening clinical skills while having fun journeying on the countryside—these are all descriptive names for a great experience called projects for outreaching the nearby rural areas and also the far-away communities in need. For dentistry to become part of ordinary people’s lives we all—dental students and dentists—try to educate, spread the awareness, help people realize the importance of self-reliance oral care and show them the improvements of one’s life after successful treatment.
