Word Oral Health Day 2014 International Association of Dental Students Prophylaxis Committee
World Oral Health Day….……………...……………………………………………………. 2 FDI President message ………………………………………………………………………. 3 IADS President message ……………………………….………….…………..…………….. 4 Message of Chairman of IADS Prophylaxis Committee …………………….………………… 5 IADS Executive Committee …………………...……………………………………...…. 6 – 7 The best Association Activity Competition and awarded winner …...………….……….. 8 – 9 Photography Competition & Awarded winners ………………………………….…… 10 – 11 Egyptian Dental student association Activity ….……………………………………... 12 – 13 Jordanian Dental student association Activity …………………………………...…… 14 – 15 Sudanese Dental student association Activity ………………………………………… 16 – 17 Italian Dental student association Activity ……………………………………………. 18 – 20 Hungarian Dental student association Activity .………………………………………. 21 – 23 We love IADS! ……………………………………………………………………….. 24 – 25 Slovene Dental student association Activity ……….………………………………… 26 – 27 Armenian Dental student association Activity ……………………………………….. 28 – 29 Indonesian Dental student association Activity …….………………………………… 30 – 31 Palestinian Dental student association Activity .……………………………………… 32 – 33 Jamaican Dental student association Activity ………………………………………… 34 – 35 Libyan Dental student association Activity ….……………………………….………. 36 – 37 Omani Dental student association Activity …………………………………..………. 38 – 39 Serbian Dental student association Activity ………….………………………………. 40 – 41 Bulgarian Dental student association Activity ….……………………………………. 42 – 43 Chilean Dental student association Activity …………………………………………. 44 – 45 Czech Dental student association Activity ..…………………………………………. 46 – 47 Turkish Dental student association Activity …..…………………………………….. 48 – 49 Emirate Dental student association Activity ….……………………………………... 50 – 51 Montenegrin Dental student association Activity …..………………………………. 52 – 53 Nepali Dental student association Activity ………………………………………...... 54 – 55 Iranian Dental student association Activity ………………………………………..... 56 – 57 Romanian Dental student association Activity ……..……………………..…….….. 58 – 59 Tunisian Dental student association Activity ………………………………...……... 60 – 61 Saudi Dental student association Activity …………………………………………... 62 – 63 Indian Dental student association Activity ………………………………………….. 64 – 65 Russian Dental student association Activity …………………………………..…..... 66 – 67
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World Oral Health Day – WOHD – is celebrated every year on the 20th
of March worldwide. It is an international day to celebrate the benefits of a healthy mouth and to promote worldwide awareness of the issues about oral health and the importance of looking after oral hygiene to all ages. It is a day for people to have fun; a day full of activities that would make us laugh, sing and smile. The aim of WOHD is to raise awareness and encourage individuals, families, communities and governments to take action and help reduce the global burden of oral disease.
Why is WOHD important?
WOHD is important because 90% of the world’s population will suffer from oral diseases in their lifetime. Many of them can be avoided with increased governmental, health association and society support and funding for awareness, prevention, detection and treatment programs. In addition, World Oral Health Day offers the dental and oral health community a platform for action to help reduce the global oral disease burden.
What is the theme for WOHD 2014?
The theme is “World Oral Health Day 2014, Celebrating Healthy Smiles”because having a healthy mouth is a cause for celebration! Our efforts will be on protecting the worldwide population’s teeth and mouth throughout life, from childhood to adulthood. International prophylaxis Officer: Dr.Murad Alrsheedi
National Prophylaxis officers: Egypt - Radwa Jamal Jordan - Asil Ellauzi Sudan - Fatima Abdulrahman Italy - Francesca Flauret Hungary – Marianna Doró Slovenia - Eva Sinič Indonesia - Tommy Frahdian Palestine – Nadin Hababeh Jamaica – Toni Ann Chile - Nicolás Cohn Czech Republic - Petra Olivikova Romania - BOTILA Mihaela Russi – Olga Kozmine
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Turkey - Orhan KAZAN Tunisia – Imen Ayouni Saudi Arabia – Walid Almotiri United Arab Emirate - Deema Raslan Iran - Parham Pedram Oral Health day officers: Libya – Taha Khalifah Serbia - Andrej Primović Bulgari - Deniz Alperov Oman - Omer Alhanshi Nepal - Saru Thapa Montenegro - Tea Milosevic
IADS booklet on World Oral Health Day World Oral Health Day is truly emerging as the indispensable means to communicate messages about good oral health to decision makers and to practitioners of other medical disciplines. Most importantly, and despite constant advertising of oral health products on TV and the internet in many countries, members of the general public frequently see maintaining oral health as an option rather than an absolute necessity. World Oral Health Day provides an excellent opportunity to emphasise the importance of oral health and the crucial role it plays in general health. In 2014, World Oral Health Day was celebrated in 106 countries, a huge leap from 37 in 2013. Proportionally, the jump in student activities was about the same, from 12 in 2013 to 29 this year. Of course, that should be no surprise. World Oral Health Day is above all an opportunity to have fun ‘celebrating healthy smiles’. Oral health is a serious subject but being entertaining is sometimes a better way to communicate serious messages. Lectures and workshops have a role to play, of course, but are a less efficient way to raise awareness among the public! A brief read through this booklet will impress the reader with the wide variety of events organized by the world’s dental students on 20 March 2014, demonstrating both creativity and imagination as well as an evident strong sense of duty to better inform the public. Judging by the number of free dental check-ups and awareness raising booths set up, the special day also provided an important opportunity for students to supplement their studies with real-life experience close to the general public, not only those who visit the dentist frequently but also those who rarely do. I am particularly happy to read about the number of events targeting children: good oral health habits learned early in life are an excellent investment in a trouble-free future for teeth and can yield dividends later on by avoiding costly reconstructive work. Children also communicate their enthusiasm back to their families and can play an important role in educating their parents and siblings about the importance of a healthy mouth. It is also impressive to see how students themselves have taken full advantage of the media to publicize their events locally and nationally and get as many people as possible involved. Oral health promotion on local and national television is a very powerful communication tool. In addition, the younger generation of dentists is also very much educated about the huge potential of social media both to bring people to an event and to report it afterwards. So, in this brief message I would like to thank you, dental students of the world, for your commitment to World Oral Health Day 2014 and the time and effort your have invested in ensuring its success. I very much look forward to World Oral Health Day 2015, which promises to be even bigger!
Dr Tin Chun Wong FDI President
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Dear Colleagues, The oral health worldwide is in our hands today, as it is up to us and our actions to improve it. It is in the hands of the doctors who teach at the University, work in clinics and of students as well, as even though we are just climbing on the dentistry profession steps, we too can make a difference. This is the reason the International Association of Dental Students was glad to join for the second consecutive year the great initiative of FDI World Dental Federation, to celebrate World Oral Health Day on March 20th. Students around the world have gathered together, went to schools, public squares, orphanages, remote areas within their region and celebrated the betterment of Oral Health through prophylaxis activities designed to educate and advice the population. From Jamaica to Indonesia, from Italy to Saudi Arabia, many IADS member countries around the world have joined the initiative in 2014. Through their actions, they have set up an example and took the leadership in the student led prophylaxis activities to improve oral health. We would like to express our immense gratitude towards the participating organizations and towards FDI World Dental Federation for the great cooperation. Together, for a better oral health!
Pavel Scarlet President, IADS
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World Oral Health Day 2014: giving the gift of prevention Prevention is better than cure! Here at the prophylaxis committee, we are working toward the benefit of the community through awareness and prevention for better health. For the second time, International Association of Dental Students, in collaboration with FDI, participated in World Oral Health Day (WOHD) 2014. WOHD is a day that helps increase dental health through advocating prevention to the public, whereby dental care provider and students share their time, instruments and knowledge with local communities. This year, 27 countries from 4 different continents were present, including Sudan, Egypt, Oman, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Italy, Serbia, Jamaica, Palestine, Chile, Turkey, Hungary, Montenegro, Czech Republic, Armenia, Slovenia, India, Libya, Nepal, Tunis, UAE, Romania, Bulgaria, Iran, Mexico and Russia. In each of these countries, dental students worked with communities to educate the public on good oral health and to distribute dentifrices. Moreover, two competitions were organized for the purpose of supporting the country activities in this day: the first one was best WOHD photo, and the second one was the best dental student organization activities. These two competitions were sponsored by FDI. The 2014 WOHD was a huge success. According to FDI statistics, 106 countries celebrated that day, and nearly third of their celebration were led by student organization 27 of them are students’ organization. We are thrilled that students are playing such an important role in the society. This event was the result of hard work and collaboration. I would like to thank FDI for their tremendous support to IADS, a partnership has lasted for long time in order to raise oral health in the world. A word of thanks goes to my team in 27 countries “ the national prophylaxis officers ‘’ who worked all together from different places to make this day possible. I couldn’t have do it without them. I am looking forward to extending this collaboration for WOHD 2015 and involving the entire IADS country members.
Murad Alrsheedi, Chairman of Prophylaxis Committee, IADS
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Egypt The winner of the:
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The Winners of the photo Competition
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“Egypt’s report about WOHD 2014”
In collaboration with “FDI” Dental student’s scientific association (DSSA-Egypt) celebrated the WOHD 2014 in different cities in Egypt under the name of “Egypt celebrates healthy smiles” . Our main target was to improve adults and children life by increasing their awareness about the importance of oral and dental health and its hygiene. The celebration took place in different cities as following : Fayoum ,Tanta, Assiut , Ismailia and Zagazig (in collaboration with Directorate of Health Sharqia-dental department). The plan was as following : A) ADULT awareness and check up and some minor procedures. Places: Universities, clubs B) Children awareness and check up. Places: schools, clubs, some social events (e.g. orphan’s day event) DSSA-Egypt celebrated the WOHD in Tanta club as following, there were 3 groups of students: awareness group, kids’ area group and clinic group:
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Jordanian Association of Dental Student (JADS)
Jordanian Association of Dental Student (JADS) focused on raising awareness of citizens of Jordan’s Capital; Amman. Citizens of all ages were targeted to be the audience of this event. JADS divided the activities on this day to:
a. Awareness Booths:
Six different awareness booths were available during the event for citizens of different ages to enjoy and go through during the event. Volunteers raised awareness in each booth regarding the following matters: 1- Oral Cancer 2- Dental Trauma 3- Tooth Brushing 4- Use of Mouth Rinsing 5- Fluoride Application in Preventing Caries 6- Neonatal/Prenatal Oral Health Care Dental Specialist from both the University of Jordan (JU) and University of Science and Technology (JUST) trained Dental Students Volunteers on how to raise awareness regarding the above mentioned issues of awareness.
b. Healthy Smile Contest:
A contest took place on the day of the event. Photographers took pictures of the faces and smiles of those that agreed to participate in the contest. Smiles were cropped of the faces and published on the campaigns Facebook page in which Facebook users got the chance to vote for the most beautiful healthy smile. The face picture of the winner was published on the page after the end of the voting deadline and prize was (Galaxy Tab III Device + Blood Glucose Measuring Device) that will be given to the winner on-air on Jordan T.V. - Number of attendees of the event >750 Jordanians. - Number of participants in the Smiling Contest = 149 Jordanians.
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Sudanese Association of Dental Students (SADS)
Sudanese association of dental students celebrated the WOHD14 in a week as one day was not enough. And we wanted to make it a memorable for all Sudan. We worked hard covering a large area and targeting people of different ages and backgrounds. Our team consisted of dedicated dentists and students well trained and aware of the huge responsibility of spreading health education. On 20th of March 2014 the celebration took place in three different areas:
ABC language school:
A whole day was full of educating and applying the right way of brushing, answering the children’s questions and listening to their opinions. The most adorable and existed part was that the children were preparing a models of carving from the incisors to molars, they have learned how to carve it only from YOU TUBE!
Reformatory:
We chose it as it’s closed from the outside community, and teenagers there haven’t any knowledge about oral hygiene and have never been to a dentist before. That’s why we planned to make a free medical day for them. And to break the usual routine for them we had entertainment program as well.
AL-Waha Mall:
AL-Waha mall was a very productive and rewarding activity where we had an opportunity to share dental information with the wonderful Sudanese people who were very eager to learn and know more . There was free dental examination and referring unit that was opened to anyone who wanted his oral health to be checked.
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Italian Association of Dental Students (AISO)
“It’s day for people to have fun!” is the slogan of the campaign on oral wealth week, which took place in Capitanata from the 15th to the 23th of March. This event has been strongly supported and sponsored by the University of Foggia in collaboration with the Student Association Area Nuova, AISO (Italian Association of Dental Students) and AIO (Italian Association of Dentists). Its meticulous and detailed organization has presented theoretical and practical work in every single day, a common thread with its cornerstone on the 20th of March, the World Oral Health Day. This fruitful week has highlighted that the 90% of the world population suffers from diseases related to oral cavity. All these diseases are simply avoidable with greater attention on the part of political and health institutions or of private or social individuals for the awareness, prevention and creation of specific programs of treatment, offering a platform for action to help the dissemination of simple concepts, but at the same time valuable for our health. The opening ceremony held on 15th March, was attended by the major representatives at the University of Foggia, including the Director of Dental Clinic, as well as the Director of the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prof. Lorenzo Lo Muzio, as well representatives of various associations, such as dr. Pavel Scarlat, President IADS, Carlo Caponio, President AISO Foggia, Victor Luca Palumbo, Foreign Relations Representative National AISO, dr. Giacomo La Torretta, regional President of Puglia AIO, who officially started at the event. In addition, as mentioned earlier, the most beautiful activity of this week was played on Thursday 20th March, when the smiles, the ideas and the ballons of elementary classes of ‘Catalano-Moscati’ and ‘San Giuseppe’ illuminated the dental clinic. For this reason, in accordance with the theme of ‘World
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Oral Health Day 2014’, pupils with took part, with Dr. Michael Saad, to a meeting in order to enhance the importance and the right way in brushing our teeth. They highlighted the health of our mouth that at any age, young and old, allows us to eat, smile, kiss or whistle. This campaign has not been only addressed to children but also to all population. On Saturday and Sunday respectively to Foggia and Cerignola teachers and students were in the square with a stand to educate population to oral hygiene. Moreover, they were distributed small gadget for oral hygiene kindly offer by the sponsor. According to the quote of the writer Mordecai Richler ‘it takes seventytwo muscles to do the pout but only twelve to smile’, we don’t let our mouth worries for some pain too. It represents the vehicle between our essence and the outside world.
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Thanks to IADS and FDI on the 20th March 2014, Hungary celebrated the day of healthy smiles for the second time. Our preparations started two months before the big event. Although we had difficulties in the beginning, we managed to find the perfect venue and support for the event. The Hungarian Association of Dental Students, Semmelweis University Faculty of Dentistry, with 40 devoted students made this event possible in Budapest. Together with the Division of Oral Prophylaxis of the Department of Community Dentistry we organized a health day. In addition to that, we organized a street action to bring oral health awareness closer to people. The main aim was to rise attention to oral cancer and the risk factors as Hungary has the highest prevalence of oral cancer worldwide. Because of that we focused on the improvement of oral hygiene, reduction of smoking, and alcohol abuse. We had individual consulting with the people interested, and we tried to answer their questions regarding dentistry, oral hygiene, and other health matters. A month before the event, our association started to gather the enthusiastic students from all years for this event. A week before the event we started the preparations with the students involved. We started WOHD early in the morning with the decoration of the lecture hall of the Department of Community Dentistry. We used transparent and posters drawn by dentistry students. We played a little with the official logo shaping it to our national colors and making the face unhappy with smoking. In the lecture hall from 9 a.m. until 16 p.m we were showing to the people the proper technique of tooth brushing, flossing, cleaning of dentures, and we gave useful information to those who wore braces or had prosthesis. The participants who had
a risk of oral cancer were sent to Dr. Prof. Gรกbor Nagy who examined them. There was a wide range of participants in age and social background, which made this day very interesting and colorful for both parties. Thanks to the head of the department Dr. Peter Kivovics associate professor we had a great media attention and we reached awareness of WOHD on a national level in Hungary. We had interviews with television, radio and newspapers. We would like to use this opportunity to thank Dr. Peter Kivovics for supporting our cause, and providing us with the venue. In the afternoon we went out to the streets of the centre of Budapest, and gave oral hygene advice to pedestrians. At first people were a little suspicious about our demonstration, but shortly with our smiles, we convinced them to take part in our mini questionaire, and the brave ones got little gifts from us (dental floss, WOHD bracelets, and toothpastes). We can not put our feelings in words about this day, as we had such an amazing time. We reached 400 persons during this day. Next year we hope to increase the activity by involving all dental schools of Hungary in WOHD. Also we would like to expand our activites by visiting schools, kindergartens and retirement homes too, as we usually do on our prophylaxis events.
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We love to be happy we love oral health
and we love IADS!
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We love to be happy we love oral health
and we love IADS!
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Slovenian international dental students committee (SIDSIC)
What is more important than bright smiles and happy faces? Is 20th of March, sunny Ljubljana, and the SIDSIC (Slovenian international dental students comitee) team composed of young, enthusiastic and cheerful students starts up the day. And, is not just a regular day with the regular student activities, but today we are celebrating the World oral health day. Despite is only 7am, the positive energy and good spirit are all around. As a good team players, everyone takes in charge for one piece of the ‚cake›, so we can achive maximum results. First on the run are the bravest. Our students, are already the main TV stars on the Slovenian TV show Dobro jutro. After a short tour around the clinic we promote our aim, about raising the awareness for the oral health, prevention, and the importance of the oral health for the well being and everyday activities among the population. We present one treatment and of course we never forget about our friend FDI, so a video is made, in order to inform and motivate the public of the importance of a healthy mouth. The next stop is the Center for Training and Education, Janeza Levca, Ljubljana. It was planned to meet with children with special needs from 5 to 13 years.Even thought, we were a bit concerned if we will get a positive feedback and interaction with the children, this susspition was gone right after the first minute. We got warm welcoming by the children and their smiling teachers. The few hours filled with pleasent disussion and joy passed so quickly. We talked about oral hygiene, brushing teeth, healthy food, and the health in general. In a fun but effective way, while playing we gave the children useful advices and some tips and tricks how to maintain and keep their oral cavity in an excellent condition. For our great surprise everybody was into the conversation and eager to learn as much as they can. Of course, all the questions were dedicated to who if not, the favourite Tooth Fairy We also demonstrated the technique of brushing teeth and every child got toothbrush and toothpaste. At the end, both sides were satisfied. Children with happines in their eyes, went home motivated and ready to implement the new skills and we continue our work, this
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Profilactic days in Armenia
On 20 th of March Armenian Medical Students› Parliament has started prophylactic month «Healthy teeth happy smile»related on WOHD.It was great honor for association to organize such important action and we have chosen as mark group schools in cities near borders where situation of oral hygiene on the lowest level. We Organized interactive lectures for pupils,were playing games «doctor and patient»,showed the right way to brush teeth and at the end conducted an inspection of the oral cavity.Then we sent all collected statistics to the Ministry of Health for organizing the future treatment. Pupils and their teachers were very excited and interested in active participation.We felt the importance of such kind of programs for development knowledge and skills of the youth in this field.For now our foreground question is to organize regular healthy tours to the all parts of Armenia.
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PERSATUAN SENAT MAHASISWA KEDOKTERAN GIGI INDONESIA (PSMKGI)
Indonesia, 1024- Maret 2014 celebrating World Oral Health Day 2014 at 12 Province with 23 Dentistry Faculty in Indonesia; Aceh, Palembang, Padang, Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang, Yogyakarta, Solo, Surabaya, Jember, Bali, Makassar with one theme “celebrating for oral healthy Smiles�. End of our activity was Free clinic and dental health education at school of handicap children at Cimahi, West Java Indonesia. Total number for Attendees with 150 student, young dentist, and dentist from 23 Dentistry Faculty in Indonesia. Our activity: 1. Long March dan awareness campaign with share leaflet, stiker, banner and poster WOHD 2014 (Jakarta, 1017March 2014). 2. Instalation poster and banner at all Dentistry in Indonesia (1030- March 2014). 3. Social media activity with share WOHD 2014 at facebook, twitter, whatsapp, line, skype (1022- March 2014). 4. Sosial activity on the road with dental health education (DHE) awareness (Aceh, 17 March 2014). 5. Free clinic and dental health education at school of handicap children (Cimahi, 22 March 2014) and Nursing homes (Purwokerto, 17 March 2014). 6. Competitions dental health education tools (Cimahi, 22 March 2014).
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PERSATUAN SENAT MAHASISWA KEDOKTERAN GIGI INDONESIA (PSMKGI)
This year, an activity that took place in two Palestinian cities in conjunction, Ramallah and Gaza. Celebration has been through a lot of activities in the two cities, a detailed presentation of activities, goals and benefits will be illustrated through the next part of this report. With the participation of 100 dental students in Palestine, and with around 500 beneficiaries attended the Event, the activities included : b. People learned the prober way for teeth brushing. c. Toothpastes and toothbrushes were distributed to encourage people for cleaning and brushing their teeth. d. A Campaign of awareness done, by : - Educational posters and brochures. - Public Health lecture. e. A program of Painting and games for children.
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University of technology dental students
Over fifty students from the Utech dental school took part in the WOHD March 20th event. «Creating a beautiful Smile» was just a glimmer in the eyes of us dental students for that day. We made a video from the Pharell happy song on the day with our students, employees at the dental school and random Jamaican citizens. The Video was done by Sean Lue Yen. These are some reaction quotes from persons at the event «It was a lovely day felt happy and I can›t get the song out of my head» said one of our participants. Another spectator said « I love what you guys are doing!!” after receiving a prize from answering a question about oral health.Our professor Dr Doryk Boyd from the oral diagnostic department said he was happy to see what we all put together. Location of the day was in front of Victoria mutual building on knutsford boulevard, the bob Marley statue and the Utech dental school, we started at our first location 11:00 am and ended at 3:00pm the last location the dental school. The theme was promoting world oral health, healthy smile and the color for the day was blue. Our blue shirts we wore while singing and dancing on the street brought a lot of attention.
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Benghazi Libyan Red Crescent
This is the first time Libya celebrates the WOHD and it was an amazing event as the Benghazi Libyan Red Crescent arranged this event in just 7 days and celebrated this event in one of Benghazi›s big shopping mall center AL HAYA Mall . We have been supported by two local companies ALJABAL Company with 2 types of Mouth Wash products and by HB Group Company with Crest toothpastes and Oral B tooth brushes products and some instruction flyers to be given to people as free gifts to encourage them for oral health . At first people didn›t know anything about this day and started asking questions we used mouth ,teeth and tooth brush large models ,and used videos to teach them how to brush and clean the teeth ,we also used funny children videos for better understanding of the children , ,as all the participants were dentists and dental students we gave instructions and advices to some who had dental problems , some of the people thought they were doing a good job in their oral health but after teaching them the right way to brush their teeth and clean their mouth they were happy to learn something new and more happy after they got the free gifts of Oral B toothbrush ,2 types of mouthwashes ,Crest toothpaste and hand braces and stickers of the WOHD 2014 .
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Omani dental students Association (ODSA)
Omani dental students had an event by the name «super tooth» at Muscat grand mall. The event was ranked number 1 in the region so far in the sense of its major . This event was planned and thought of by a group of dental students whom are from the only dental college In the sultanate of Oman «Oman dental college « . The plan started by creating the event›s logo which had the idea and colours of the super hero character super man but in a shape of a molar tooth . The area of the event was designed in a way that it looks like a city with colourful buildings and busy streets all hand made by the students themselves . The area was divided into different sections and each section had an organizer and a number of volunteers along with . The different sections for the kids started at the reception area where the kids received a pass by ticket to begin their journey to the different sections . The educational section comes first where the kids learns the different parts of the tooth , the dental instruments and is given oral hygiene instructions . The second stop is the free dental examination section where the child gets examined and is given a check list with the stuff found and then goes to the market which is the 3rd section of their journey and the gets to shop for food and phrased on the healthy choices they made and advised on the bad ones .Their journey ends at the photo Boath where they dress in lab coats , graduation hats and get their pictures taken with a certificate from the super tooth community . The event included other fun parts like stage performances and games with rewarding gifts . Face painting and entertainment area were avaliable as well . The event included a section for parents regarding oral hygiene instructions which had a constant appearance of parents whom showed so much interest in their dental health . All in all , the event was a major success in all aspects and all the goals set at the first of the plan were achieved . The unity of the team members and their hard work came to action and did show during the event .
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Club Students of Dentistry (KSS)
On March 20th 2014 Club Students of Dentistry (KSS), is a section of the Faculty of Medicine Students Union (Savez Studenata Medicinskog Fakulteta), with the support of the Dental Clinic of Vojvodina ( Klinika za Stomatologiju Vojvodine), the World Dental Federation (FDI) , and in collaboration with the International Law Students Association dentists (IADS), was organized and carried out the action , the purpose of which was to educate and raise awareness of the importance of oral hygiene . On March 18 and 19 in the city center and the university campus was held promotional campaign events scheduled for March 20. March 18 and 19 in the field , we had a promotional campaign of World Oral Health Day , during which we distributed leaflets performed oral examinations , trained on proper technique passers brushing teeth, we also answered all questions related to dentistry . In just two days, we inspected 45 people , 4000 leaflets were distributed to passers-by. In addition to the leaflets were printed 20 posters that were hung in 20 locations around the city ( on the pillars and on the notice boards ) . Local radio stations on their own initiative will be notified about this action . In the regional newspaper “Diary” » («Dnevnik») published an article devoted to our event . On March 20, two lectures devoted to the World Day of Oral Health and Dental Clinic held in Vojvodina , was attended by more than 100 visitors . After the first lecture , from 11:00 to 13:00 , in Hall number 5 in the presence of Dr. Predin (dr. Predin) was examined in 15 patients , and ten of them were made tartar removal and removal of soft sediments. In the period from 15:00 to 17:00 in the Hall as number 5 in the presence of Dr. Assoc. Chankovicha (doc. dr Čanković) was examined in 9 patients , and four of them were made tartar removal and removal of soft sediments. After the second lecture , with 17h . until 18:15 , under the supervision of Dr. Assoc. Petrovich (doc. dr Petrović) in Hall 5 and Hall number for pediatric surgery were examined 33 patients , and ten of them were made tartar removal and removal of soft sediments. Patients who have a need for other kinds of dental services were recorded at the reception during practical training of students in the next few weeks . The event was successful , and the results exceeded our expectations .
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Bulgari Dental Students Association (BDSA)
Our goal was to make this day known to everybody, because our oral health is one of the most important things. So it has begun, our members were really well prepared. They talked to the National Dentist Newspaper to write an article about WOHD. Also we talked with 3 schools for permission to educate the young students and explain them the importance of the oral health. We started our campaign early in the morning with the students at 8 am. We had to prepare a short presentation about oral health and the proper brushing of teeth. After the presentation we asked the students, who were very enthusiastic some questions and rewarded the winners.This Happened in 2 schools in Sofia and one school in Troyan, where one of our members wanted to present WOHD to the children in his hometown and his old teacher in high school. In the end of each session we have the students presents, sponsored by Lacalut, which were Tooth paste, toothbrush and a key holder in the form of a tooth. Also The Sofia Dental Meeting association and their members helped us with sponsoring our posters and flyers. And each of the doctors told their patients what day is 20th of March. We are happy to announce that we informed more than 5000 people in Bulgaria that it is WOHD and educated some of them to have their mouth properly taken care of.
We would like to thank FDI for the bracelets that they sent us for our members who participated and IADS .
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Universidad Austral de Chile
Activities.
Total Number of activities: 2.
a) First International Conference of Health, Poverty and Social injustice. Media: 2 social media.
Public: 450 attendants.
Government officials: 2 Dentists: 45.
Other professionals: 100
Students of the University Austral of Chile: 300 b) Rural intervention, in Rural School of Choroico.
Perform an intervention of education, and also did a diagnosis of all school childrens according to their severity, in one simple classification a, b and C. A means they need sealants and fluoride, b need one or more restorations, and C needs restorations and one or more pulp treatments. In order to be treated at the dental school of the University Austral of Chile, in Valdivia, Chile. We found children with poor oral health situation, with hight level of social risk, 86 children was examined, 74 needs one or more restorations, 39 needs a pulp treatment (need pulpectomy), and only 12 have healthy teeths. We hope to help every year to this rural area, as there is little or no access to oral health.
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Czech Dental Students Association (CDSA)
A group of dental students went out to one of the biggest shopping mall in the area, for the purpose of celebrating with the community in world oral health day. A booth were settled , and the team were working to educate the passer by for better oral hygiene.
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Turk Dentsic
20 March World Oral Health Day 2014 events of TURKEY was done in many regions by dental students focusing on «Giving oral health education to public for future healthy smiles « theme. 170 dental students attended, 2400 adults and 2930 school-preschool children were educated.2000 brochures,300 stickers,150 posters, 6500 dental kits were used at this events. For expressing this day›s importance President of Turkish Dental Association Prof.Dr.Taner Yücel gave briefing to the press and media about dental caries, periodontal diseases and what should be done to prevent oral diseases. Turkey is glad for joining to the WOHD 2014 events and we are looking forward to WOHD 2015 with new projects.
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Early Smiles Campaign - University of Sharjah Dental Students’ Association
As a way to celebrate world oral health day, University of Sharjah Dental Students’ Association held a dental awareness campaign in Rosary Primary School in Sharjah, UAE. The target for this event were children in Grade 2, who are at an age old enough to grasp the concepts of oral health, and young enough to effectively modify their already established habits of oral hygiene.
We arrived to the school early in the morning with a full day planned ahead. The school›s theatre was filled with 150 children, and we presented to them educational videos and slideshows about oral hygiene, brushing techniques, good diet habits and general information about teeth and health. We then held an interactive session, allowing them to ask questions related to oral health. We concentrated on giving them a good impression of dentists, since most of them admitted to be afraid of dentists.
The children were then divided into five classrooms, and we distributed ourselves among them. We used disclosing agents to identify the location of plaque, had a group brushing competition, showed them how to correctly brush their teeth, and gave them pamphlets and brochures to give to their parents so they can make sure their children maintain proper oral hygiene. We designed posters as well to be hung in every classroom and in the hallways of the school. Running parallel with the activities, interns were responsible for providing dental checkups for each child. Using the findings from the dental check ups, we contacted their guardians and advised them on the future dental needs of their children. The event was a great success and lots of fun for the children and our volunteers. We look forward to holding this event on a regular basis, in order to spread and improve dental awareness among the young population.
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Montenegrin Dental Students Association (MoDSA)
On 20th March Montenegrin Dental Students Association (MoDSA) had projects in malls. One grupe was working with children and one group with adult. Children were in game room with their parents. We had presentation about oral hygiene and tooth brushes. We gave them coloring books to play and trought that they were learning how to brush their teeth. After presentation and painting,they were showing us what they have learnt. Because we had our sponsors(only sponsor) Curaprox,we gave to all children tooth brushes and tooth paste. For parents we had interdental brushes and mouth wash. The other group was working with adults. They were showing to us their technique of brushing. A lot of them didn’t know right way of brushing,but they have learnt. Also we had doctors with us so they were answering about all questions about periodontal disease . Television were filming everything because in our contry prevention is not something what dentists do. Also for all visitors we had tooth brushes,tooth paste,mouth wash and also interdental brushes. In this project participated 20 people,two groups in two malls. People were very happy because they got gifts and free advices about oral health.
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schools of Sauraha
On the auspicious occasion of World Oral Health Day 2014, we started school brushing program in 14 governmental, Chitwan, Nepal. Individials students were given a set of Toothbrush and toothpaste that were kept at their classroom which had their names written on it. Everday monitoring was carried by their class teacher to ensure that the students brushed their teeth regularly. Free dental camp along with toothbrush and toothpaste were given to children and adults at Nawalparasi, Nepal. 200 people were examined. 50 extraction was done.
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Students› Scientific Research Center
Students› Scientific Research Center (IADS member), UNESCO, Tehran Municipality and Ministry of Education, together take part in this festival.
Different health care services such as oral examinations, optometry, audiometry, nutrition care and psychological consulting was presented for about 9000 normal and special (Autism, Down syndrome, etc.) students.
Besides the dental examination oral health learning and fluoride therapy were done for about 7000 students.
In the other hand there was some symbolic programs, like a human ring around the Milad Tower and signing a role for the sake of special children rights, baking the biggest healthy cake, and healthy food festival.
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SSS Craiova
In the morning of 20th of March, SSS Craiova members got together, wish they`re hearts full of joy for the day they we`re going to spend. What they we`re going to do was something you cannot change : to receive nothing but kids smiles and appreciation and understanding from the highschool students. Just a little bit shy in the beginning because they we`re not sure about the kids receiving the surprise and the bigger students understand and apply their advises, they have left to “Nicolae Romanescu” school. But what to see, kids were running in the school yard, smiling and laughing. As soon as they have seen the guests, very kindly saluted and went all together to the ceremony room.
Even if the small ones were curious about the presents packed in the bags, they sat quietly in their desks and waited the presentation. Our colleague, Mihaela, started a discussion about “The Dentist”. Kids reacted in different ways… some of them more scared than the others. Until the end of the presentation they have taught the kids that they have no reason to fear, because “The Dentist” is their friend.
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Tunisian Association of Dental Students (TADS)
- All committee consists of 15 active members of the TADS is responsible for organizing this event.
- The preparations lasted three weeks , during which the committee met four times to divide the tasks : some are in charge of logistics , some of the media , other contact managers of places visit and others are responsible for the registration of participants . - A week before the event , a registration booth was placed daily at the Aquarium of the faculty so that volunteers can register their names, their level of education and their phone numbers, then select the place they want to participate in and indicate the time during which they will be available. - In total , 135 students were presented as volunteers and a list for each location was established and given to officials of the latter so that they can contact participants. - The day before the event , two representatives of the event Hiba Hamza and Iyadh Jaouadi were invited to a Radio show at Radio of Monastir to talk about the WOHD. And finally :
* A pretty nice atmosphere prevailed during the two days of the campaign * The number of tracked pupils was beyond our expectations
* Volunteers were numerous and returned satisfied thanks to the good cooperation between the organizers and volunteers .
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Dental Students Activities Unit
According to the latest statistics, dental caries in Saudi Arabia has been considered to be vey high 90%. Therefore, in this distinguish day (World Oral Health Day 2014), a lot of effort has been given to raise the awareness of oral health. So far 5 different city of Saudi Arabia participated in that day, which is Riyadh, Qassim, Jazan, Abha and Alkharj. A group of students and dentists in each designated city organize multi activity to celebrate in this day and support the rising of oral health. These activities include visiting orphanages center, educate kids, organize lecture, presence in shopping mall. All these different places activities were associated with booth, mobile dental clinic for the purpose of education and application of preventive measurement. So far in the end of that day, the student celebrate of it is success with high achievement impact. Interestingly, 180 volunteers were able to raise the knowledge of more than 4000 attendants in that day. So the volunteers were very happy about that achievement and looking to continue this effort in the next years.
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Indian Dental Students Activities Unit
Dewaria district in Gorakhpur is one of the highly populated areas. People in that area is not well educated and don’t have enough money to spend on dentistry. Indian association of
dental students team of Uttar Pradesh decided to conduct an oral health camp in this region. In the month of January
2014 under the supervision of Dr.Praveen Singh and two
other eminent student doctors we conducted oral health camp. Majority of patients suffered with generalized attrition
of teeth with chronic generalized periodontitis. It was a two
days camp in which we treated almost 210 patients. Free medicines were also distributed in order to help poor people. Minor extraction with grade 2 and 3 mobility were also done of 12 patients, the number of pediatric patients were less.
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Russian Dental Students Activities Unit
Russian Dental Students and Young Dentists Association celebrated in WOHD14 in Collaboration with International Association of Dental Students. Oral health awareness
activities were done in one of the biggest shopping mall of saints Petersburg. A group of dental students spoke to the passer by about the important oral health, brushing technique,
flossing, and mouthwash. This year was the first participation in WOHD and looking to continue this celebration with further improvement in 2015.
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