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editor’s wordDear IADS friends,I am very glad to present you the first IADS Magazine issue of 2015 which comes to complete the other former editions. Through this issue, we share with you different IADS events, our members’ activities and IADS success stories, reflecting our association’s spirit and goals on all the continents.

In the name of the entire editorial board and IADS leaders, I would like to express gratitude to all the ones who contrib-uted and made possible the making of our publication.

Malek Ghorbel

editor@iads-web.org

ConTenTS

6 World Health Students‘ Alliance8 Indonesia Calling 12 Dentistry in Pakistan

Is at a nascent level but is evolving rapidly which promises a bright future

14 BrushUp Jamaicaan eternally memorable life-changing experience

16 Student Exchange ReportInternational externship in Taiwan Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung

18 A Trip to HeartlandRussiaAn Autumn exchange Report

20 Memories from Training Session Prague

22 Elective : Why it’s worth staying at home

23 Don’t miss your chance to participateAn interview with Dr Miranda

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Pavel ScarlatImmediate Past President 2014–2015Country: Romania/ Republic of MoldovaUniversity: University of Medicine and Pharmacy Craiova (Romania)IADS e-mail: ipp@iads-web.org

Mahmoud MajzoubInternational Scientific officer 2014–2015Country: SudanIADS e-mail: iso@iads-web.org, score@iads-web.org

Esti Riyanda AstutiInternational exchange officer 2014–2015Country: IndonesiaUniversity: Universitas Muhammadiyah YogyakartaIADS e-mail: ieo@iads-web.org

Malek Ghorbeleditor 2014–2015Country: TunisiaUniversity: Faculty of Dentistry of MonastirIADS e-mail: editor@iads-web.org

Sina SaygiliTreasurer 2014–2015Country: TurkeyUniversity: Istanbul University, Faculty of DentistryIADS e-mail: treasurer@iads-web.org

Murad AlrshadiGeneral Secretary 2014–2015Country: Saudi ArabiaUniversity: Al Qassim University, Saudi ArabiaIADS e-mail: secretary@iads-web.org

Petra HorákováPresident 2014–2015Country: Czech Republic, PragueUniversity: Masaryk University, Brno Czech RepublicIADS e-mail: president@iads-web.org

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Osama AfanehChairman of the Prophylaxis CommitteeCountry: Jordan

Abdullah SalahChairman of the International Voluntary Abroad CommitteeCountry: Sudan

Rexsy NuperdannaChairman of the Fundraising CommitteeCountry: Indonesia

Nesrine GharbiChairman of the Train-ing CommitteeCountry: Tunisia

David Diaz RubayoChairman of the Committee on Recruit-ing new Members Country: Puerto Rico

Nicolás CohnRegional Director – AmericaCountry: Chile

João PiresRegional Director – europeCountry: Portugal

Jessica ZacharRegional Director – Asia, PacificCountry: Austrlia

Rowan FaisalRegional Director – AfricaCountry: Sudan

Asil EllauziRegional Director – Middle eastCountry: Jordan

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on november 15th, 2014, Prague hosted representa-tives of three international associations: the Interna-tional Association of Dental Students, the International Federation of Medical Stu-dents’ Associations and the International Pharmaceuti-cal Students´ Federation. This meeting was held in order to discuss creation of coalition of international health students-run orga-nizations, the World health Students’ Alliance (WhSA).

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operation, the Memorandum of Under-standing, and creating declaration to be co-signed by all three associations.

17th november had been chosen for the signing. This day is recognised as the In-ternational Students´ Day. It commemo-rates the nazi storming of Czech universi-ties in 1939. on october 28th, during one of the biggest demonstrations against the occupation of Czechoslovakia, stu-dent Jan opletal was shot and died a few days later. his funeral turned into the last big protest, led by students, against the occupation by the nazi army. In novem-ber 17th 1939, the nazi regime sent more than 1000 students to concentration camps and executed 8 student leaders along with one professor.

The representatives of the three student organizations first visited memorials of Jan opletal and ended their tour in Kar-olinum, seat of the Charles University, where they signed the World health Stu-dents’ Alliance declaration. Signatories in-clude Petra horáková (president of IADS), Agostinho Moreira de Sousa (president of IFMSA) and Jakub Weber (Chairperson for external Relations of IPSF). By signing the declaration the three organizations express their commitment to advocate for the best interests of our communities to improve patient outcomes, improve the culture related to health professions collaboration, work together in common advocacy topics and capacity building projects that promote interprofessional collaboration and share good practice experiences that promote the develop-ment of the organizations in the Alliance. next step towards WhSA is signing the Memorandum of Understanding, which will take place during the general assem-bly of IADS’ MYM in Jordan, 2015.

Thanks to IFMSA, a representative of IADS will attend 68th World health Assembly on May 18th–25th 2015, and the Youth Pre-World health Assembly Workshop (Pre-WhA), which will be held between May 13th–18th 2015, both in Geneva Switzerland.

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I nternational Association of Dental Students (IADS) has presented the 61st Annual World Dental Congress of International of Asso-ciation of Dental Students (IADS) and Young

Dentist Worldwide (YDW) that is organized by In-donesian Dental Students Association (Persatuan Mahasiswa Kedokteran Gigi Indonesia). The pro-gram took place in two most famous tourism des-tinations in Indonesia Yogyakarta and Bali where everyone could see the beautiful landscape, visit the historical places and learn local culture.  Yog-yakarta is a center of cultural arts of Java that rep-resent the beauty pluralism of Indonesia aswell. It served all participants a full exoticism of Tropical land and the stunning ancient legacy of Javanese culture. Bali is the land of Paradise with all beau-ties of hindus culture and landscapes.

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PRe-ConGReSS: The Tropical Adventure (27th to 29th August) The pre congress theme was Tropical Adventure that let all participants experience the out door activities with 3 differ-ent type of places such as Mountain, Beach and River.  The first place was Merapi Mountain with lava tour where every-one could visit one of the active volcano of all sequence of ring of fire in the world. The adventure started with jeep off road and continued to seeing the volcano museum and lava track from the last eruption in 2006. The tour continued to Parangtritis beach which is one of the famous beach in Yo-gyakarta. everyone enjoyed the beach until the sunset.  on the next day, Participant prepared for another adventure,an exciting water sport, Rafting in ello River Magelang Central Java.

ConGReSS: Good Time Under The Sun of Yogyakarta (29th August to 3rd September)

IADS Congress is one of the most anticipated congress since it offers various dental acivities, general assembly, tours, international night and parties. The main programs in Sci-entific part are lecture Contest, International Speakers lec-tures, Workshops, Dental olympic and exhibition. IADS also provides Training Session and organize the General Assem-bly to all delegates who work within the Association. There is also an exchange fair and parties.

The first welcoming night was the Mocktail Party around the beautiful hotel pool where everyone enjoyed the special west and east snack and cuisine and the mocktail also the welcoming speech from special guest such as President of FDI and President of Indonesian Dental Association.

The next day was the scientific days that all national and intermational participant could update themselves of the newest information in dental technology and FDI campaign. Scientific seminar was supported by special speakers Drg Zaura Rini Anggraeni MDS, Dr Tin Chun Wong (President of FDI), Dr octavian Fagaras, Dr Giovani Pisoni, Dr Gian Battista Greco, Dr nikos Mattheos, Dr Joao Malta barbosa, Dipl.Ing. Azim Ranmal. After the Seminar, Participants visited the fa-mous hindus Temple, Prambanan Temple. Dinner and party were following.

At the third day, General Assembly and Training Session started. All delegates were gathering to discuss the proj-ects of IADS and voted the next annual congress venue that Thailand will host the next IADS annual meeting and it

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would be altogether with FDI congress in Bangkok at Sep-tember 2015.  The exchange fair followed at the evening till midnight. General Assembly continued on the next day and the new leadership of IADS had been elected.

Executive Committee: � President: Petra horáková (Czech Republic) � Secretary General: Murad Alrsheedi (Saudi Arabia) � Treasurer: Sina Saygılı (Turkey) � editor: Malek Ghorbel (Tunisia) � International exchange officer: esti Riyanda (Indonesia) � International Scientific officer: Mahmoud Majzoub (Sudan) � Immediate Past President: Pavel Scarlat (Romania)

Chairmen: � Committee on Recruiting new Members: David Diaz

Rubayo (Puerto Rico/USA) � Fundraising Committee: Rexsy Ajie nuperdanna (Indonesia) � Prophylaxis Committee: osama Afaneh (Jordan) � Training Committee: nesrine Gharbi (Tunisia) � Voluntary Committee: Abdullah Salah (Sudan)

Regional Directors:

� europe: Joao Pires (Portugal) � Middle east: Asil ellauzi (Jordan) � Asia Pacific: Jessica Zachar (Australia) � Americas: nicholas Cohn (Chile) � Africa: Rowny Faisal (Sudan)

At the afternoon, all participants visited the biggest Buddhist Temple, Borobudur which used to be one of 7 wonders of the world.

A t the 5th day, The 11th IADS lecture Contest and Poster Session and 2nd IADS dental olympic were held. 11 participants competed in oral Presenta-tions, and 5 competed in Poster Session, their pre-

sentations were evaluated by an international Jury composed of Dr. octavian Fagaras, Dr. Giovanni Pissoni, Dr. erlinasih Ma-hanani and Dr. Widowati Siswomihardjo.

After 3 hours the winners were announced as below: 1. Adelina Popa (Romania) – Applications of orthodontic

Mini-Implants 2. Betül Gedik (Turkey) – Prevalence of Ponticulus Posticus in

Turkish orthodontic Patients 3. Ayşe nur Koç (Turkey) – The Relationship of Bone Mineral

Density with Chronogic Age and Pubertal Growth 10 teams with 3 dental students each competed in 5 rounds of 2nd IADS Dental olympic. These 5 rounds were Radiography Interpretation, Suturing on a Chicken Skin, Soap Modelling, orthodontic Wire Bending, opening a Cavity on nissin Dental Simulators. The Juries were Dr. Gian Battista Greco, Dr. erma So-fiani, Dr. Cendrawasih AF M.Kes  evaluated all the work. After 3 hours of fierce competition, the winning teams were decided as below:

� 1st team – Team Iran � 2nd team – Team Indonesia 1 � 3rd team – Team Indonesia 2

After scientific competitions, all participants enjoyed the Gala Diner and farewell party. The  winners of lecture contest and Dental olympic were announced altogether with Prophylaxis Award  IADS Peter Swiss Award 2014 with Murad Alrsheedi (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and Azmi Ben Dhiab (Tunisia) as the recipient. The new leadership of IADS was also introduced.

PoST ConGReSS: Soaking In The land of Paradise  (3rd to 6th September) The land of paradise welcomed all participants. everyone visited the wonderful places to see and learn the conserved hindus culture in Bali. There were some epic Balinese dance performances to see and Water Sports to enjoy. At the first

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day all participants enjoyed the white sand, warm water and nice wave and  amazing sunsets in Pandawa and Uluwatu Beach. on the next day, everyone enjoyed the beautiful scenery of Kintamani and Ubud Tour. All Participants had a water sport ac-tivities at Tanjung Benoa and tour around Garuda Wisnu Kencana. The post congress was closed closed with a wonderful dinner in Jimbaran.

I would like to thank to all IADS friends who participated and past immediate IADS execu-tive Committee members who gave us their best support and cooperation. My enormous gratitude to all speakers and sponsor (Sirona and nissin). last but not least the best loC team i have worked with. I am now count-ing down for the Mid Year Meeting in Jordan and Annual Meeting in Thailand. Till we meet again, IADS and YDW family. Esti Riyanda Astuti

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21st century is characterised by the information age with exponential growth of knowledge in all technology fields including medicine. In this regard, the expanding field of medicine was ex-

pected to shun all the redundant ways of acquiring, practising and preserving knowledge. however, we see a slow transfor-mation in the developing countries which still do not adapt to the rapid international developments in the field of medicine. In Pakistan, dentistry is one such field where this difference is significant and pronounced when it comes to the adaptation and use of international best practices. here, the professional approach is rather primitive and relies on outdated teaching methodologies and technologies. This non-innovative ap-proach is followed in a lot of dental colleges.

This is not a good model for incubation of ideas especially those germinating in the young minds. We religiously follow the obsolete teaching methodologies with poor supporting infrastructure leading to unnecessary burden on the students. our dental student feels encaged in self shells but is at par with the international university standards. howbeit it requires a lot of extra energy, hard work and dedication to get there. even though these problems exist, our system is still generating one of the best professionals. The mettle and reasoning skills of the emergent professionals is considered second to none. We have managed to show our talent on international platforms. We still endeavour to bring forth future leaders in our limited resources and in our outdated system.

In order for Pakistan to be recognized among the leading at-traction for dental education, dental curricula has to be shaped to ‘Problem based curricula’. The revised curricula will integrate critical thinking skills in the undergraduates. ‘Tele-conferenc-ing’, ‘Tele-medicine’, ‘Computer-assisted learning’ and ‘ex-change Programs’ might bridge the yawning gap between the two education systems. It is a need of time to amalgamate dif-ferent intellects and give them a chance to express themselves. The talent in Pakistani students is enormous and is blessed with intelligence and the requisite tools of hard work. We just need to steer it in the right direction by using right methodologies. Statistics of Total number of Recognized Dental Colleges in Pakistan:

Province Public Private Total

Punjab 4 12 16

Sindh 4 12 16

K.P.K 2 5 7

Balochistan 1 - 1

Total 11 29 40

not only dental education system is old fashioned, but the oral health care delivery system seems to have some voids too. The challenges it has to face are of a different nature. Dentistry here does not demand sophisticated methods to deal with the prob-lems of public health but to find the most cost effective method.

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Despite this, the health care professionals are not in reach of a common citizen because dental care is a luxury to those who can afford. A common man with Rs. 10,000 income and a fam-ily to support cannot be blamed if he is unable to afford a Rs. 3000 crown to save his tooth. Another challenge is the attitude of general public towards seeking dental help because it seems to shift frames. In Pakistan, a patient would only seek ‘dental as-sistance’ when in dire need; like excruciating pain after tooth decay or the need to have some prosthesis for the lost teeth. For them, routine dental visits are a waste of time and money and most of all, are considered ‘useless’. Moreover, Sixty-two percent (62%) of the rural population is oblivious to this need as well due to non-existent oral health care delivery systems in those areas. If we analyze the dentist-to-patient ratio in Pakistan, then we would know that for 12895 patients, there is only one den-tist available. (Dentists = 14594, Population = 188.2 million). The manpower to tackle the oral health issues is not up to the mark. Despite limited resources, both human and material, we still are trying to combat these issues.

Statistics:

With Basic Degree With Specialization

Province Male Female Total Male Female Total

Punjab/ Federal Area 2156 3458 5614 332 152 484

Sindh 1607 3215 4822 224 102 326

K.P.K 946 1059 2005 183 46 229

Balochistan 189 152 341 32 6 38

A.J.K. 138 116 254 26 8 34

Total 5369 8110 13479 801 314 1115Source: www.pmdc.org.pk

one contributor to this attitude is lack of awareness among the masses regarding oral diseases and importance of maintain-ing oral hygiene. We, as dentists, know the simple answer to prevent this medley of diseases; “Tooth brushing twice a day” but majority is unaware of the “importance” of this simple prac-tice. The government health sector, health organizations, prac-titioners and even dental students are trying to cultivate this habit in masses by focusing primarily on preventive strategies. It is a positive change in our health policies that has riveted the attention to downstream approach and has involved multiple sectors to work coherently.

Another new challenge for our health care system is the ‘expo-nential increase in the cases of oral cancers of different patholo-gies’ over a past few years. A two-pronged way can be employed to tackle this rising issue; either by conducting awareness

programs to stop its emergence by educating the public about causative agents or by diagnosis of these cancers at early stage through different screening programs. Both these approaches have been integrated but there is a need for more outreach pro-grams and to formulate more resilient health care policies by involving multiple sectors. There should be a vigorous culture of research so that new markers, new medicines and new ways to diagnose and treat the cancer can be discovered. ‘oral Cancer’ is our regional problem and we have to deal with it ourselves. If we delay it now, we would be accumulating problems which might become impossible to deal with in the near future.

Despite these problems which depict bleak picture of dentistry, we have array of hope; many organizations are working tirelessly to take dentistry to a new level. one such example is Pak Dental Community, a non-profit organization which is trying to bring about a change in the way we see dentistry here. It is directing the services through its outreach programs to those areas of so-ciety where dental care fails to reach. It has currently launched 26 successful programs in 5 cities. It is also bringing a healthy culture of synergizing the efforts of dental youth by giving them multiple opportunities and giving them a platform where they can bring a positive change. Along with this, it is inculcating a culture of research and also conducts up-to-date workshops at a reduced cost to facilitate greater dissemination of knowledge. not only this, we have PDA (Pakistan Dental Association), which is constantly working on continuing educational programs, scientific seminars, educational conferences and symposiums. These organizations are also conducting international confer-ences and are promoting our talent by sending delegations on international seminars. Recently, liaquat University Medical health Sciences (lUMhS) had arranged a conference with the theme “exploring Dental education, Paradigm Shift in Pakistan” which focused on resolving the issues encountered in dental curriculum. State-of-the-art laboratories have been launched recently in some institutions which has shown us the silver lin-ing. We hope, one day, we can claim the level of dentistry in Paki-stan to be tantamount to international standards. With this rapid progress, we can claim that the time is nigh.

This article is intended, on one hand, to invite the dental com-munity in Pakistan to discuss these issues so that we can devise pragmatic solutions and on the other, to attract international intellectual participation. We might be lacking resources, but progressive policies and an emancipated manpower could gradually bring about this change. These deficiencies must be raised at international platforms, and through global intellec-tual participation, there is a likelihood that the discussion of these issues will lead to practical solutions.

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D uring August of 2014, I took a 3-flight, 26-hour trip to an experience that has changed my life in more ways than I thought possible. I arrived, packed with so much exhaustion and totally jet-lagged,

at one of the most beautiful islands on earth as my trip’s final destination – too bad it was night time the day I landed.

I’ve always been a soul with a keen de-sire to travel the world for the aid of oth-ers in the global community. But, it never seemed possible at such an early stage in both my life and journey as a dental stu-dent. So this opportunity was definitely surreal.

Initially, to be honest, I was intimidated by the level of experience I could see in the group of volunteers who have – like me – come from faraway parts of the world sharing the same goal. however, this program was designed in a way that had us not only get to know each other on both a professional and per-sonal level, but also walk away from this experience know-ing that we were part of a new family.

The feelings, challenges, and experiences we all faced to-gether, as a group or individually, brought us closer togeth-er in mind, heart and soul. It is one thing to spend time with people you’ve just met, but completely different to live and

spend the entire span of a day everyday for a week togeth-er. The kind of chemistry and bonds we built spending so much time together was key for our efficient dental work on the field to all the patients in dire need of dental treat-

ment. Words to describe the level of love and knowledge I received from this group simply do not exist, and all I can say is that I thank God daily for having crossed paths with such talented, genu-inely beautiful-minded people.

In the two weeks we spent in both the raw Kingston and the sunny Montego Bay, we were exposed to so much of the country’s beauty; it overwhelmed me. We saw all sorts of national landmarks and attrac-tions. Some of the experiences we were ecstatic to have been a part of included visiting the legendary Reggae artist Bob Marley Museum (previously his home), driving up the speechlessly gorgeous blue mountains to breathe the high Jamaican air, dining at the Usain Bolt restaurant, spending long and refreshing days on the

breathtaking Jamaican beaches under its warm sun, climbing (struggling, for me) up the slippery and thrilling Dunn’s river falls, and visiting one of the prominently known historical landmarks; Devon house – serving the fourth best ice cream in the world. This is all without mentioning the truly pampered time we spent at a resort packed with an unlimited supply of beaches, lively parties, and exhilarating Jamaican energy!

BRUShUP JAMAICAan eternally memorable life-changing experience

Thanks to the extremely hardworking

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The other – and more purposeful – aspect of this trip carried so much more pricelessness for me; working in the field. I could, honestly, not believe how some people could need healthcare so desperately. Thanks to such a hardworking and devoted team, we were able to visit one of the public healthcare cen-ters in Kingston. And my goodness did that trip grip my heart and bring tears to my eyes. We had all come from places where healthcare was mostly accessible and more or less affordable, to a place where we saw tens of people packed into poorly hygienic-looking rooms waiting for any sort of healthcare to be provided. The conditions were a lot more deficient than I’d expected. And it took me a while before I could finally believe that this was a real place and these were real people. At that moment, I truly understood what this whole dental career I am pursuing is about; providing health and changing real human lives. And it truly put a huge portion of my life into perspective.

T hanks to the extremely hardworking and devoted BrushUp Jamaica team, we were introduced to the only dental college present on the island, giving us a realistic glimpse of how life for dental students

is in Jamaica. We also had the honor of meeting and com-municating on a personal level with many of their highly qualified and truly talented dentists and dental professors. Personally, I learned a great deal of dentistry through just the simple conversations I was blessed enough to have with so many talented dental healthcare professionals. So much that, I can safely say, many of it changed who I am, and will be, as a dental student – an experience that I am sure, I would’ve not been able to achieve had I not been a part of this inspiring trip.

I continue to, until this day, tell whoever I mention this trip to that although there was endless beauty in both the island and the kind hearts of its simple, welcoming people, the most beautiful part of the journey I witnessed, was truly the sincere smile of appreciation I received from those whose lives I felt we deeply had an impact on. Despite being limited in the types of dental treatment we could provide, I could honestly say I walked away from this experience feeling heroic enough to say that I truly have changed someone’s life. The expressive look in their honest eyes was where I learned true gratitude. And in the end, that is the only pleasure that made all of this worth it.

It would only be fitting here for me to sincerely thank a man who is honestly the main reason I was able to pursue such a thrilling and beneficial journey. I proudly call him a teacher, mentor, and friend. Dr. Kokovic not only motivated the drive that pushed me to do this, but also prepared me for all that I needed. Jamaica, you beautiful, beautiful piece of this earth, thank you!

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learn something about Taiwanese cul-ture, social aspects, try Taiwanese food and see many beautiful places.

Taiwanese students are very nice, willing and polite people. They tried helping us every minute of our stay here and pro-vided us with everything we need, so we are really thankful to them!

The weather here is really hot and hu-mid, so I was surprised, that everybody wears long trousers and long sleeves. We were there during August, so we ex-pected a lot of rain and typhoon, but our expectations wasn´t fullfilled.

one thing I don´t like in Taichung was traffic – there was a lot of cars and ev-erybody (!) is travelling by scooter in the city. I´m not used to travel by scooter, so I was little bit shocked and scared at the beggining of our stay here. All informa-tions at bus stops are only in Chinese, so it is not very tourists-friendly (but it was a big challenge for us), and it is really hard to find out, when next bus leaves. But

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and they are allowed to work on pa-tients during their 5th year of study af-ter supervision. Relationships between students and teachers are maybe better, because teachers here, in Taiwan, usually know their students very well, are more closer to them and they spent much more time together.

however, clinical exchange program isn´t only about clinical practice and dental skills. The main point was to meet new people, start new friendship with Taiwanese students, improve english,

W e spent 20 days in Taiwan, Chung Shan Medical Uni-versity, Taichung. our clin-ical practise took 14 days.

Departments, where we spent our time here was: Pedo, Prosthetic, orthodon-tic, oral Surgery and oral Pathology. I can say that many types of treatments are very similar to treatments we have in Czech republic. The most important difference is that we still use amalgam fillings in some cases of treatment tooth decay. The diference is also in access to patients, according to health insurance. In Czech republic, there is higher num-ber of treatments, which we have to pay. In Taiwan, for example scaling is for free two times per year. I was surprised, that orthodontic therapy is very expensive there. Braces in Czech republic are five times cheaper than in Taiwan. naturally, the number of orthodintic patients is much higher in Czech republic.

Difference is also in type of dental edu-cation system. Taiwanese dental stu-dents attend dental college for 6 years

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waterfall, cave or tropical forrest. We were also excited about animals and plants here – bananas, bamboos, betel-nut trees, huge butterflies and caterpillars, spiders and many other kinds!

Third weekend was the best – we spent our time in Kenting – it is the southest point in Taiwan. There is a national park and the most beautiful beach I have ever seen! I think this place is paradise! We got little bit sunburned, but we didn´t regret. It was mindblowing!

Finally, I can say that we spent a wonderfull time here. We have too many experiences! I highly recommend this international externship to other students!

MRT (kind of public transport, something like underground), is being built here, so problems with traffic will be solved soon, after opening MRT.

Food here, in Taiwan, is simply great! Rice and noodles are ev-erywhere. each meal is eaten with chopsticks, so it was really funny to have a lunch or dinner with me, because I had never eaten with them before. But I enjoyed my meal every time. We tried japanese dumplings, sushi, sashimi, beef noodles, hot pot, oysters, local fruit and too many other dishes and I can say I love Asian food!! I couldn´t forget their tea – we had it every day here and it was really delicious. I think I will miss Asian food and tea in Czech republic.

We also saw many beautiful places here. We spent three week-ends in Taiwan, so we wanted to see city, nature and seaside.

First weekend, there was trip to Taipei, which was very well or-ganized. We saw Taipei 101, climbed elephant Mountain, had a lunch in Michelin-star restaurant, slept in one of the most beautiful hotel in Taipei, saw Jinan Temple, xing Tian Temple and Mekong Gondola. We really enjoyed it!

Second weekend we went to Sun Moon lake and Sun link Sea, we could see beautiful sceneries of Taiwanese nature – lake, Aneta Niklová

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ARRIVALon the 17th of September 2014, we took off from Kotoka International Airport with Moscow as our destination. We ar-rived at Vnukovo Airport Moscow at 12pm on the 18th of September after a brief transit in Istanbul. We were met at the airport by some exchange commit-tee members who escorted us to take a train to Ryazan State Medical University were we were to have our excahange. We were accommodated at their stu-dents hostel.

ELECTIVE OBJECTIVES

� To observe the delivery of dental healthcare being practiced in Russia, and the various tools that are being used in the execution of dental healthcare

� To develop interpersonal and communication skills for effective exchange of information between colleagues in the dental profession and patients

� To enhance my knowledge, clinical and laboratory skills

A TRIP To heARTlAnDRUSSIA An Autumn exchange Report

ELECTIVE EXPERIENCEour elective started on monday 22nd September 2014 at the dental depart-ment of Ryazan state medical university. We were accompanied by the dean and some departmental heads to view their phantom center and we were taking by surprise by the things we saw. Their phantom center was very equipped. The dean took us by surprise when she told us they had some phantom teeth set up for us to do some endodotic practise on them. At the end of the we ended up doing a good work of which their endodontic specialist was very pleased with.

The next day was much more excit-ing as we were taking to their dental clinic and the place was very beauti-ful. The dean and some heads gave us a tour of the clinic and we saw all their departments. We started off at their orthodontic clinic were we were intro-duced to the head of department, we then moved to the prosthodontic clinic, therapy clinic, oral surgery department, x-ray department and the laboratory. It was a very nice experience because we

saw a lot of things that we hadn’t seen in Ghana before. From there we had a lecture on files used in endodontic treatment with some Russian students. We were however given a translator who really helped us a lot because eng-lish language was a problem.

on the 24th September 2014, which was a Wednesday, we started at the prosthodontic department with the head of department. We observed a number of procedures which included implant supported dentures, inlays and onlays. The head of department took us through how the procedures were done. We then moved to the orthodon-tic department in the afternoon to ob-serve more procedures. We witnessed a few orthodontic treatments which was mainly braces being fixed. The head of department however gave us a brfief lecture on tooth eruption and develop-ment of the face and we were done for the day.

on Thursday 25th September 2014 we were at the prosthodontics clinic where we observed several impressions taken and had hands on mixing stone and plaster for some casts for patients. It was really a nice experience as we felt

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fulfiiled. In the afternoon we had a lec-ture on sealers used in endodontics by one of the lecturers. We however went to orthodontics clinic again to wit-ness some more braces being fixed. one striking feature about their den-tal school is that it is predominantly females unlike our school so we were quite surprised.

on Friday we were assigned to end-odontic specialist to observe a root ca-nal therapy on a patient. equipment was not a problem since everything was at their disposal. All the instruments you can mention. It was the first time we saw an apex locator and how it is used. Dental chairs with microscopes attached and it was such a beauty. The special-ist performed the root canal treatment on tooth 16 and it was very successful. There was a lunch break and we con-tinued after that with a brief lecture on periodontal examination and we were done for the day.

on Saturday we visited a private clinic owned by one of the lecturers who is a maxillofacial surgeon. It was the first time we saw an x ray machine which shows images in 3D. It was just magnifi-cent and very inspiring. We observed a procedure on implantology on a patient and that was basically it for the Saturday apart from the tour they gave us at the private clinic. It was a complete clinic on its own with all the departments.

on Monday 29th September, which was our last day for the exchange period, we observed one procedure in which a posterior composite was done for a pa-tient. The dean however met us after the procedure and congratulated us on a successful exchange period. We were to leave Ryazan to Moscow that evening so we were given a half day. We left ryazan and headed to Moscow around 4pm by train for the international dental ex-hibition which was going to be held in Moscow the next day. With the help of

their exchange officer we found a place to sleep and relax for the next day ahead of us.

on Tuesday 30th September we at-tended the international dental exhibi-tion in Moscow. It was very amazing be-cause almost all dental manufacturing companies were the to showcase their products. A lot of dental chairs, hand-pieces, loops etc to mention a few. Infact everything dentistry was there and we enjoyed the atmosphere and the air of dentistry around. Sadly that was our last day in Moscow. We cant however say we went to Moscow without talking about the Kremlin which the most popular tourist site in Moscow. We went there and had fun since it was our last day in Moscow. We however arrived in Ghana on 1st october 2014 at around 19:25 gmt.

CONCLUSIONThe exchange period at Ryazan State Medical university is one of the best va-cations we had. We had the chance to observe a lot of procedures and to inter-act with a lot of lecturers and students and also to see a lot of equipments that are not available in my school.

Kwabena Opoku Owusu-Ansah andZaher Safadi

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I t was August and International Den-tal Students Association congress in Yogyakarta was in progress. I was sitting as a Polish delegate in the

General Assembly for the first time in my lifetime. At this time Petra horakova was presenting Czech Dental Student Asso-ciation & Slovak Association of Dental Students Project: TnT- training new train-ers session in Prague. I immediately was interested what is it. I visited the web page and I found that it is about train-ing soft skills. Soft skills? What is it? I did some research and I found that these are interpersonal and relationship-building skills, which help people to communi-cate collaborate and manage tasks effec-tively. I’ve got excited and I immediately sent my registration form. But it was’t over, I had to be accepted first! So I was waiting and waiting and then finally I re-ceived this mail, “you were accepted for the TnT in Prague! At this time I changed my university schedule as fast as i could and I was in!

on 19th of october I finally came to Prague and everything was about to start. The opening ceremony was held by Petra horakova, Kateřina Miklišová and Katerina Krenkova. I was very happy

to see my friends who I met in Indone-sia. 20th october was the first day of the Training and our Trainers Adham el-Shourbagy from egypt and nesrine Gharbi from Tunisia started with some ice breakers and setting up some ground rules of the all training session. At this point we found out that everyone had a “secret friend” who shall give you a gift, we found out that we need many people responsible for something like secretary or coffee officer -the person responsible for making coffee for the other partici-pants. We also wrote down some pun-ishments and put them all together to the bag. The Punishment were for peo-ple who break our rules, like no other language than english. To be honest, our Trainer Adham and organizing Commit-tee member Katka Miklisova were one of the very first people punished for it. If I remember well Adham had to do 20 push ups and Katka had to sign a song, everyone enjoying a lot punishing the others.

The three first days passed quickly. We were working hard from 9am to 7pm in an international team from Iran, Jordan, Tunisia, egypt, Iraq, Belgium, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Poland and learned

MeMoRIeS FRoM TRAInInG SeSSIon PRAGUeI t’s already December but I’m still

thinking about time i spend in Prague in october. Why? What happened there? TnT happened.

What is it you might ask me, well let me explain you everything from the beginning.

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a lot about leadership, project management, communication skills, presentation skills, body language. Therefore upon the completion of the first days, we were granted with an official status of IADS Trainers. now we had 2 days to prepare our own Subregional Training.

however, the TnT was not only about training as it was also about the people who came there, the friendships and inter-personal connections that got forged. I met my old friends and new ones have emerged. We were having great time during evenings. The organizing committee did an awesome job in preparing a fantastic social program. everyday we went for a tasty diner, tasted the great Czech Beer and talked about so many interesting topics! even in the social program I have found the learning, before I thought that Knedliki can be served only one way, now i know how wrong I was. And I love Knedliky in every way.

our 3 evenings were so special, tasting the Czech wines made of grapes and cheese was a pretty much loved activity by ev-eryone. Wine after wine, sweet or dry, we got to number 10 easily. In the morning it dazzled me to figure out that such good wines are made within the Czech lands, but I was not sure if It was the wine or my objectivity making the conclu-sions. Another important social activity to be mentioned was the Karaoke Club and our eurovision skills, however my singing was definetly not in the preference of the club’s owners as they were afraid it would scare the clients. Some of our colleagues got so many instant fans that they started to think about a ca-reer path change

The last very special evening took place in a Restaurace uFleků. We went on a tour around the old brewerey where we learned they middle age way of making beer, that type being able to be bought only in this smallest Czech brewery’s restaurant which is the biggest Czech Restaurant. Social program was

something I really enjoyed, however the main reason why I came to Prague was to become a trainer. So in a meantime our group: Katka Miklisova, Mahmoud Majzoub and I were prepar-ing our own Subregional Training about Presentation Skills.

We worked hard and did a subregional training as the very last participants. our training took 2 hours and I hope our trainees improved their skills. At this moment we officially became IADS Trainers! I was so proud of myself. everyone was very proud about themselves. We did it! During our training we received also very interesting lectures from Colgate about caries and how the toothpaste are being developed. everyone was inter-ested and curious about it. We receive some samples of their very new product Colgate Maximum Cavity Protection with sugar acid neutralizer toothpaste. It might be a breakthrough in caries prophylaxis. Caries problem is more or less solved in a children group but the adults is a big issue, there is no good prophylaxy- colgate lecturer said. Maybe it will be a solution. Finally, the Sunday came and the TnT was over. The closing ceremony started at 8 p.m. however I couldn‘t participate at it because of personal reasons I had to go back to Poland. I was leaving Prague with a heavy heart. I was leaving my friends, but as it is in IADS, we never say goodbye, we say see you soon! With a special thanks to Petra horakova, Katka Krenkova, Katka Miklisova, Monika Michalkova and Peter Dzupa. leaving Prague with a heavy heart. I was leaving my friends, but as it is in IADS, we never say goodbye, we say see you soon!

Ivo DomagałaPolish Assocaition of Dental Students Poznań

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G enerations of student doctors and dentists have made their way to the planet’s most remote out-posts in the hope of using their knowledge and skills to help others less fortunate than themselves,

to sample a change in culture and to see how their trade is practiced around the world.

nowadays, where health and safety is king, and healthcare pro-fessionals can be seen as nothing more than big piggy banks draped in white coats to some people, the dynamic electives has changed considerably, to the point where, if you do things by the book, you are flying to these far-flung and exotic des-tination to do little more than stand in the corner f a dental surgery an watch someone bang in a class I composite. This as far as I am concerned, offers no educational value to a dental student who is less than 12 months away from throwing off the schakles of dental school and is about to make a living from “drilling and filling”.

Some dental and medical students may treat their “elective” as little more than a glorified drinking/seightseeing holiday, and that’s fine by me, but the elective is meant to be an educational opportunity, which brings me to my main argument: do you really need to go abroad to have an enjoyable and skill enhac-ing elective ?

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By Garry Wilson

To that question, I must give an unequivocal ‘no’! I spent 3  weeks working at King’s College hospital in the depart-ments of oral surgery and oral medicine and I absolutely loved every second of it. The 3 weeks were a wonderful blend of learning from staff members, passing on my wisdom to other students, assisting in procedures and diagnosing and treating patients of my own. It was an excellent means of con-solidating my existing knowledge but also building my con-fidence and becoming more aware of and adept in my own surgical performance. What I really enjoyed about spending my time working with KCh staff was that they treated me like a fellow member of staff and made me feel at home in the department. I’d jump out of bed in the morning knowing that I was about to spend a great day amongst lovely people.

I couldn’t fault my rotation in any way. I was able to involve myself as much as possible in the management of patients – much more than I wouldn’t/shouldn’t have been able to had I gone overseas.

I was absolutely exhausted by the end of 3 weeks, considering that I started my rotation on the Monday after the academic year had finished, but I look away so much from my time work-ing at KCh that I would strongly recommend anyone to spend their elective in the UK. Special thanks must go to Mr Prag lal for his help and commitment in ensuring that I was able to take as much from my elective as possible.

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Don’T MISS YoUR ChAnCe To PARTICIPATe

u So lets start with dentistry? Why you choose it, how the decision come up?

My decision to study dentistry came out since I was twelve years old, it really caught my attention when I saw all the instruments, devices, chairs, etc, at the dentist office and what the dentist did when my parents took me to appoint-ments, also, everytime that I went to my check ups I asked him for a mirror to be able to watch what he did while he was performing my teeth profilaxis.

u Dr Miranda, we know you as the person who sent us photos of for-mer IADS congresses since 1982 and we can understand from that you’re very nostalgic to this experi-ence. Could you please tell us about your participations? (how you heard about IADS Congress the first time and how many times you par-ticipated to this events...)

It is quite nostalgic indeed, in the best way, can tell that I experienced the best

memories in my life as a dental student and after too. All started in the summer of 1982 at the end of my second year course, by that time I was the delegate of my school at the American Students Dental Association (ASDA), the dean of the School of Dental Medicine called me and Carlos Bravo (RIP) and asked us if we like to attend and represent our school at the IADS Congress in helsinki, in which we accepted immediately even without a clear idea of what we were going to do. Since there, I got so moti-vated that I continued as a delegate for few more years, sometimes representing IADS at the FDI congresses, raising mon-ey for prizes during the congresses, also organizing the courses program to some Congresses and kept assisting to more than 12 congresses. our school and stu-dents got so motivated with IADS that we ended hosting in Puerto Rico the 1983, 1990 and 1997 IADS Congresses. In 1995 I got nominated for the lifetime Membership at the Congress in Brazil. I do keep in touch with my IADS friends on a regular basis.

u We know IADS bring best memories and friendship worldwide. Can you tell us your favorite story and you still see your friends back then?

The best story that I could tell is the group of worldwide friends that I had made thru IADS and I still having now amoung all this years. each country is special can’t tell which one had a good or a bad Congress, the best of all be-sides knowing the country is the op-portunity to get education and meet-ing people around the world with the same interests, and that makes IADS priceless!

u Today the congress registration and advertisement are done via internet, how was it in the past ? (how you were hearing about the event and how was the payment done ...)

In the 80’s the internet was not so ac-cesible, so we practically used phone calls, the regular mail to send the ad-vertisements, and give the information away to the delegates during the mid-year meetings and previous Congress-es to take it to their respective schools and the payments for registration were mostly done by wire bank to bank.

In the 90’s the internet became more useful to send the advertisements and registrations by emails, I think by that time the payments were done by wire bank to ban too..

IADS founded in 1951 and many dentistry students served this association from the beginning. Those now are leading dentists all around the world. Dr. Aldo l. Mi-randa Collazo from Puerto Rico an experienced dentist for 30 years who is accepted as honorary life Member of the International Association of Dental Students in Au-gust 1995. We asked him his experiences and feelings all about his lifetime in dentistry and IADS.

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u After all those years in the service of the international dental student community, do you think that IADS had an enfluence on your career?

Definitely, a great part of it, specially in the professional way, I could tell it had made things easier to contact other colleagues worldwide for continuing education, references, etc.

u What are you doing now, any clinic stuff or which field you keep on working?

Right now I have a private practice in San Juan, Puerto Rico I’m part of the Board of Metropolitan District of the Puerto Rico Dental Society and president of the Puerto Rico Constituent of the Academy of General Dentistry which is the second largest

dental association in USA, in both we are always looking to bring the best in continuing education. now the Academy of General Dentistry opened memberships for international den-tists, you may find more information at this website www.agd.org. Also I had been active with the YDW, three years ago we hosted a MYM in Puerto Rico.

u any message for today’s dentistry students ?

My message to the dentistry students is if they could get the change to participate into an IADS Congress, don’t miss it!! It’s an unique experience to meet other people with the same in-terests with the potencial of developing lifetime friends. IADS is one of the thing in my life that I won’t never regret. Don’t miss this unique experience while you’re at Dental School!

Interview by:Sina Saygili

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