specific professional Dental Association
Zablocki Jaroslav - President of the Association of Ukrainian Implantologists
Ugrin Miron - President Association of Private Dental Ukraine
number of completely edentulous patients in the world is enormous. In this case only by us, dentists, we know how they suffer. We know that these people, especially the elderly, do not complain. They believe that at their age to be toothless - it is the norm. We also know that namely Dental implants can change the lives of these people and make them normal. The only way to completely toothless man is implanted. Other way to return the quality of life for him there, but unfortunately this is known only to implantology. And we talk about it only at its conferences and forums with the hope that we have someone hears, and that we get the new, approved at the European or world level, the standards of rehabilitation toothless man. But we do not hear. Not heard nor those who suffer, nor those who make decisions. They are in our conference do not go!
What people know about dental implantation? In the media space dentists are very few. People other than toothpaste and creams to keep the prosthesis nothing else on TV can not see! And if they see something to understand that the implantation - a Hollywood smile, and then for very wealthy people!
Realizing that our society, no people, no power never heard that dental implants was originally conceived as a way of rehabilitation of edentulous people, we have initiated a professional free movement of implantation for the elderly called "Quality of life for our parents."
400 doctors of volunteers across the country over the years have established about 1000 implants vulnerable people aged over 80 years. Private clinics free of charge produced permanent non-removable dentures. Our most elderly patient - 93 years.
volunteer doctors during "The quality of life for our parents in Kiev, June 25 2010 year
Our patients - 93 years and 90 years
Our assumptions about the low awareness of people have been confirmed. All patients were informed about the forthcoming operation and, as we seemed to have a complete picture of expected results. However, the operation in general of abandoned about 100 patients. Some patients are refused when they learned that the implantation - a surgical intervention, while others, when they learned that for this you need to stay in hospital. We can say that all our other patients were volunteers, for agreeing to an operation, they agreed them to an unknown procedure with unknown results. Anyway, none of our patients, nor those who have agreed to, nor those who are abandoned, never to implantation had not previously heard of.
To be eligible to operate in another medical facility doctors provided all necessary documents (copy of diploma, certified surgeon or podiatrist). For the first time, doctors who work in public, private, military and academic institutions about once a month gathered together in different cities in the territory of military or civilian hospitals and throughout the day established from 100 to almost 300 implants. Together worked surgeons, orthopedists, anesthesiologists, nurses and staff of hospitals. Companies producing implants have become our partners and free were given implants to their clients - the doctors who participated in the rally. All implants were certified.
All patients have made the necessary studies, such as ortopantomogramma, blood tests and fluorography. All patients were carefully selected, received consent for surgery Specialists from the hospital, were admitted to hospital, where doctors were under observation for five days (two days before surgery and three days after).
In all the cities share is always held as a military operation, because all the volunteers had never worked together and never seen before medical institution where they work. All visitors, participants were divided into teams. Each team consisted of four - A surgeon, a podiatrist and two assistants. During the event worked Logistics Center, where participants receive the necessary information. Everyone knew his workplace (the place changing, operating, or orthopedic cabinet), as well as information about where this time is his patient. The surgeon received patient's medical record and evaluate the X-ray image for 15-30 minutes before surgery. One surgeon operated on a day not more than three patients.
standard protocol for the stock
spite of different beliefs and views, all the doctors work on the same protocol - Four parallel to the implant-abutment set in space mezhdumentalnom edentulous mandible. After surgery, patients accompanied in orthopedic offices, where they established a temporary orthopedic, plastic prostheses, made of a special advance prepared templates.
Surgeons working in operating a general profile on these horizontal operating tables, unlike conventional dental units in their home offices. Operating lamp and suction provided hospital. Fiziodespensery, as well as all the necessary tools for implantation, physicians brought with them.
Some doctors sang songs, others looked as if participating in a master class and having the opportunity to see the "arm" the most eminent physicians. journalists who had access to the transaction, with pleasure interviewed physicians, anesthesiologists, who did not hide his pleasure from the work done. It should be noted that the first sensation of this action were different doctors - at first strange, tentative with elements of warnings and then a pleasure, an unusual sense of normality. And the fun is not only a sense of professional complexity, and the fact that it is a social responsibility and involvement in charity, for doctors as a professional community, as a rule, are not involved to charitable, socially responsible projects.
Interviews give our patient an international expert observer
All completed work was presented at the stands during a 5-of the Eastern Conference, held in Lviv on 10-12 March 20,011 years. Quintessence company provided a special prize for the best work for a surgeon and an orthopedist.
Present at the conference on this campaign have learned such well-known professionals such as Chantelle Malev, Karl-Erik Kanberg, Carlo Majorana, Pascal Valentini, Fuad Curie, Rafi Romano, Marcus Shlee, Istvan Urban and others. Some of them have expressed their consent to attend our shares in Kiev, both as e international observers, as well as Surgeons of Volunteers.
Of course, we can not substitute for government programs, but our actions, we can draw attention to this the problem of public and government and as a result introduce the world the standards are so waiting for our people. Yes, and the role of professional associations - it is not necessarily only the interests of its members and the conference, this social activity of its members, which makes the association more lively, less formal, allows share experiences in the home, promotes and lobbies for the introduction of new ones, including social standards.
I must say that our project supported in other countries. In particular the first phase of the action took place in Warsaw (Poland), May 9 event will be held in Sofia (Bulgaria), and 15 October in Tbilisi (Georgia).
invite in Kiev on May 26-27, 2011, where on the basis of the military hospital, we plan to one day operate on 100 patients, set them to 400 implants and the same day to establish temporary dentures. At the same time will involve 30 operating rooms, 30 new jobs orthopedists and anesthesiologists about 25 brigades.
