B E Y O N D | J A N . T O M A R . 2 0 2 2 | I S S U E 2 7A team of third-year dental students and faculty members from PAPRSB Institute of Health Sciences – ChuSae Chiau, Nur Afifah Syafiqah Muhd Safwan, and Valen Ong Jia Cin, Dr Jagjit Singh Dhaliwal, Dr LongChiau Ming, Dr Joe Knights, Dr Mary Chong Poh Hua – were awarded the gold medal in the 3rdInternational Intervention & Innovation in Dentistry Exhibition 2021 (IIIDentEx2021). This was a virtual eventorganised by the Faculty of Dentistry, University Teknologi MARA, Malaysia on 5th October 2021. Theexhibition was designed to serve as an arena where creative ideas, inventions and innovations werepresented and where the industry’s keenest minds could discuss and deliberate on the evolution in thedental and healthcare fields. This year’s theme, ‘Bridging Societies in a VUCA* World through Innovation’(*Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous), encouraged the invention of revolutionary and adaptiveprojects aimed at developing new solutions which offer significant and valuable contribution to oralhealthcare focusing on best research, innovative clinical practice, and community impact. The theme fell inline with the three third-year 3 dental students’ SSM3 community event project “Healthy Mouth HealthyLife”, which they then put together to produce the “UBD-GIGI Kit”.U B D - G I G I K I T B Y D E N T I S T R YS T U D E N T S W O N A G O L D M E D A L A TA N I N T E R N A T I O N A L A W A R D 8Top: The award-winning product, UBD-GIGI Kit - a validated edu-kit and assessment tool for oralhealth education. Middle: The virtual booth setup during the exhibition. Bottom: Healthy MouthHealthy Life / UBD-GIGI Kit team members (in order starting from fourth person on the left - Valen,Chu & Syafiqah) taking a group photo with a volunteer and school staff members after holding atalk and booth exhibition at Sekolah Rendah Dato Basir during their SSM3 project.Chu Sae Chiau, Nur Afifah Syafiqah Muhd Safwan & Valen Ong Jia Cin (BHSc Dentistry, Cohort 3)The UBD-GIGI Kit is an all-in-one oral healtheducational package that teaches aboutoral hygiene and care, that is easy to utilizeand suitable for teachers, parents or healthcare professionals. The kit includes avalidated worksheet for pre- and post-assessment of knowledge, a G-ratededucational video regarding oral healthcare and diseases, and a dentist-reviewedhandbook which contains instructions andguides for hands-on learning and funactivities. In addition to manufacturing thekit, participants were also required to makea video and poster explaining the rationaleof the products, its potential forcommercialisation as well as its novelty.These materials, together with the projectposter were displayed in the virtualexhibition booth for judges and otherparticipants viewing (see photo on theright). For more details of the kit, pleasescan the QR code below to view thepromotional video which is also posted onthe official IHS websiteFurthermore, the event hosted severalinteresting plenary talks that were held liveon the IIIDENTEX YouTube channel. Thetopics covered included “Technologies Thatwill Shape the Future of Dentistry”, “FromIdea to Prototype: The F-DentEst Lab©Experience”, and Blockchain programmingworkshops to demonstrate the role of smartcontracts in facilitating patient medicalrecords, drug production and supply chains;and the performance of Sensodyne in deeptargeted repair of dentine hypersensitivity. actionURI(https://ihs.ubd.edu.bn/ubd-gigi-kit-video/):
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