The international cooperation

In order to train highly professional and competitive specialists, the Department of Therapeutic Dentistry continuously replenishes and deepens its knowledge, improves the theoretical and professional level by exchanging experience with universities in the USA, Ukraine, the Baltic States, Uzbekistan and Russia.

2019 was marked by the beginning of a successful and fruitful cooperation of the Department of Therapeutic Dentistry of the School of Dentistry of the NJSC “Kazakh National University named after S. D. Asfendiyarov” and leading companies in the dental market offering a full range of innovative materials and equipment with modern software; support in the field of training, education and scientific marketing. In the period from 29 to 30 May 2019, within the framework of the VI International Congress of Dentists of Kazakhstan “Education, Science and Practice of Dentistry of the XXI Century”, dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Faculty of Dentistry, a conference of the section of therapeutic dentistry “Modern technologies in therapeutic dentistry” practical course “Errors and complications in endodontic treatment. Solutions”. These events were timed to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the pedagogical and scientific activity of the academician of Preventive Medicine of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Laser Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Honorary Head of the Department of Therapeutic Dentistry Zazulevskaya L.Ya. Ph.D. Ivile Grabliauskienė and Ph.D. Neringa Skuciaite, visiting lecturer in endodontics, clinic of dental and oral cavity pathology, Faculty of Odontology, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, took part in the work. The lecturers’ visit took place within the framework of the European Union Erasmus + program aimed at cooperation between European countries and partner countries around the world. To organize and conduct master classes at a high level, the companies “Dentsply Sirona”, “Carl Zeiss Meditec AG” and the leading distributor of dental equipment, the company “Luch” provided all the necessary materials and equipment: operating microscopes “OPMI pico” with accessories for the teaching staff and for students; head loupes EyeMag ProS; X-Smart endodontic micromotors with auto-reverse function; training sets with endoblocks and a set of hand and machine (ProTaper Next, Wave One Gold, ProGlider) files, modern obturation systems. Special presentations on innovative developments of the company were held by Oksana Dokashenko, manager for work with the dental community in the CIS countries of Dentsply Sirona, and Elena Kolesova, representative of Carl Zeiss Meditec AG in the Republic of Kazakhstan. During these events, the teaching staff of the Department of Therapeutic Dentistry, students and practitioners had the opportunity to discuss modern algorithms and protocols in endodontics, master the principles of root canal formation using rotary technologies, and practice the skills of root canal processing using machine tools; disassemble the errors and complications of endodontic treatment.

A lecture-practical course for the staff of the department and doctors is conducted by a visiting lecturer, PhD Ivile Grabliauskienė and PhD Neringa Skuchaite (Kaunas, Lithuania).

Employees and veterans of the School of Dentistry with guests at the conference “Modern technologies in therapeutic dentistry”

From May 29 to May 31, 2019, excellent students, 4th year students of the Faculty of Dentistry had the opportunity to take part in all training and educational events of “Dentsply Sirona” within the framework of the Kazdentexpo – 2019 Annual International Exhibition, at the company’s stand and at the conference on digital dentistry. Students noted with gratitude the scale of the events held, the acquaintance with experienced and interesting specialists and speakers who came from the countries of near and far abroad, the opportunity to improve their own communication and professional skills.

4th year students of the Faculty of Dentistry at the stand of the Dentsply Sirona company.

In cooperation, we would like to pay special attention to supporting the company in the participation of the entire faculty of the Department of Therapeutic Dentistry in two major conferences organized in the city of Almaty in 2019. The first conference “Therapy. Digital dentistry. Prosthetics” was held on May 31, 2019, the second “Concept is one step ahead. Diagnostics. Treatment” was organized on October 18, 2019. The relevance of the topics of the reports, the high professional level of domestic and foreign speakers (Ph.D. S. Geranin, Ph.D. R. Popov, K. Lazareva, A. Barysheva, A. Toybakhtina and others), and the excellent organization of events evokes sincere respect and gratitude.

Conference “Concept – One Step Ahead”. Diagnostics. 10/18/19

The beginning of the second semester was marked by a wonderful new initiative – the participation of 4th and 5th year students in a series of endodontics training webinars for dental schools in the Commonwealth countries. The webinars were held every 2 weeks for two months at hours convenient for students’ independent work and covered the most relevant topics of endodontic treatment: three-dimensional anatomy of root canals and the formation of endodontic access; initial passage, preparation and determination of the working length of root canals; irrigation and obturation of the root canal system. Taking into account that the modern trend in the development of education is the introduction of digital technologies, the transition from the traditional “classroom” teaching model to online education, the relevance of this activity can hardly be overestimated.

An excellent end of the semester was a motivational webinar, held on December 17, 2019, on the topic “Endodontics in the style of IQ. Primary treatment”, at which the lecturer, Ph.D., Denisenko Marina Mikhailovna (Ukraine, Kiev) highlighted the progressive developments in the field of endodontics. In particular, the X-Smart IQ system was announced, which allows you to draw up individual treatment plans and support dentists at every stage of the endodontic process from patient education to data processing.

Dean of the School of Dentistry of NJSC KazNMU named after S.D. Asfendiyarov “B.P. Dilbarkhanov opens a series of webinars for students

August 28, 2020, as part of a joint initiative of the Dean’s Office of the Schools of Dentistry of KazNMU named after S.D. Asfendiyarov, Indiana School of Dentistry (Indiana University, USA) and the American-Burma Institute (USA), a joint international video conference of students and teachers studying at specialized dental departments. The organization and conduct of this videoconference was attended by the dean of the School of Dentistry B.P. Dilbarkhanov, head of the department of therapeutic dentistry, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Aldasheva M.A., Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Bayakhmetova A.A., ass. Dolgikh V.R., and 3rd and 4th year students of the English department. The videoconference was moderated by Indiana School of Dentistry staff, associate professor, and executive director of the IUSD Oral Health Care for Cancer Patients Program Foundation, Stuart Schrader and Dr. Odette Aguirre. Our students told about Kazakhstan, Almaty and our university. The performance aroused keen interest in a large audience of over 100 people. Questions were asked about national traditions and peculiarities of national nutrition in our country, about studying at our university and the life of our country, as well as the topic of discussion of the videoconference was the issues of medical ethics and deontology, the peculiarities of the cultural diversity of the countries of the world, work with HIV-positive patients and their psychosocial problems, healthcare organization in different countries of the world and many other topics.

Videoconference participants, teachers of the Department of Therapeutic Dentistry and students