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PROBE

UNIVERSITY DENTAL STUDENT’S SOCIETY MAGAZINE

Your 2018 Media Representatives

Sing Yeen

As your new media reps we hope you enjoy this quarters edition of Probe! If you’d like to contribute to this publication or provide feedback, feel free to contact us on media@udss.net

Muhamed Agag

The President’s Greeting

Another year of Probe! I hope everyone is ready for four more blockbuster issues of the UDSS publication that’s made by students for… well, just about anyone interested in the happenings of UDSS! Another amazing committee of 27 students have assembled and volunteered their time to ensure that the students are well represented, and to fill up the UDSS calendar with an abundance of events that you do not want to miss out on.

Firstly, a huge thanks to the 2017 Committee for all their efforts and ensuring that the 2018 Committee have a seamless transition into their roles. It’s going to be hard to top last year’s schedule of events and achievements but we’re certainly going to give it a good go!

As always, all year cohorts are represented through their Class Representatives. The DMD 1 cohort of 2018 is the first of a new course structure, and although they may not be seen on-site at the Dental School too much in this their first year, they

are still definitely part of the DMD community and are well represented through their class reps Adam Kadri and Sally Tan.

The previous Education Representatives put in a phenomenal amount of effort in laying down the foundations for UDSS to incorporate a significant amount of educational initiatives into our event calendar, and with events like Clinical Tips seminars and the continuation of Journal Club, the 2018 Educational Representatives are committed to ensuring that educational initiatives remain as one of our core goals.

As with any year, us dental students need to relax once in a while and our Junior Social Representatives and Sports Representatives are in charge of hosting a series of events throughout the year to help maintain the study-workclinic-life-sleep balance that we all obviously successfully maintain. The Senior Social Representatives are already putting in some hard yards to ensure that this year’s Dental Dinner is another spectacular,

and word on the street is that there’s going to be a bit of a change this year to make this event even more amazing so stay tuned for more details!

In case you were living under a rock ADSA Convention is coming to Perth this year, which means that UWA Dental School is going to host a HUGE week in July. Emma Turner is our ADSA representative for 2018 and she is heavily involved along with a few other students in working with the UWA Dental School to ensure that the 2018 ADSA Convention is a memorable one.

Finally, thanks to the 2018 Media Representatives for ensuring we have a great year of Probe magazine to look forward to. It’s about time last year’s media rep was given the boot…

Here’s to a huge 2018!

Paul Chung UDSS President

The 2018 UDSS Committee

Position

President

Undergraduate degree

BSci (UWA)

What do you fear the most in dent?

Right handed dental setups

Greatest wish?

Chelsea winning a treble, followed by world peace

What do you do for fun?

Beat Jay Vaddagiri in golf

Position

Immediate Past President

Undergraduate degree

Double major in science (Micro/Path)

What do you fear the most in dent?

One on one meetings with Prof Farah

Greatest wish?

To pet a cheetah

What do you do for fun?

Usually it involves drinknig and Trivial Pursuit

Position

Vice President

Undergraduate degree

Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons), Monash

What do you fear the most in dent?

I’m terrified of the model trimmer

Greatest wish?

Quit my job and still get paid

What do you do for fun?

Go to the beach, Watch a movie

Paul Chung

Chris Bartlett

Jasmine Li

The 2018 UDSS Committee

Position

Secretary

Undergraduate degree

BSc Biomedical Sciences from University of Aukland

What do you fear the most in dent?

The 3:30 pm alarm sound in clinic

Greatest wish?

Experience every major sporting event on my bucket list

What do you do for fun?

Socialise and play sport a little :)

Position

Treasurer

Undergraduate degree

Engineering/Commerce

What do you fear the most in dent?

That they’ll find out my motto is fake it till you make it

Greatest wish?

World peace :P

What do you do for fun?

I go diving

Position

Education representative

Undergraduate degree

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery

What do you fear the most in dent?

The wrath of Sing Yeen if I don’t submit this bio in time

Greatest wish?

Nutella rolled in fresh Lebanese bread. Mmmm. What do you do for fun?

Basketball, guitar, magic tricks (more often than not, these backfire), grab a beer at Charlie’s Bar and watch the Fresh prince of Bel Air. Most importantly, eat nutella.

Jay Vadagiri

Agnes Tan

Danny Girgis

The 2018 UDSS Committee

Position

Education representative

Undergraduate degree

Bachelor of Pharmacy at Monash Uni, Melbourne

What do you fear the most in dent?

Patients with bad breath

Greatest wish?

Have passive income

What do you do for fun?

Drink good wine

Position?

Research representative

Undergraduate degree?

Neuroscience, and Law and Society UWA

What do you fear the most in dent?

Wardrobe malfunction

Greatest wish?

I’d drop dent and be the next 007 Bond Girl.

What do you do for fun?

Beach and cocktails.

Position?

Webmaster

Undergraduate degree?

Biomedical Science

What do you fear the most in dent?

Breaching infection control in optech

Greatest wish?

For bitcoin to make it back to $25,000

What do you do for fun?

Practising my Chinese and drinking plenty of water

Ruth Um

Sophia Hawes

Jamie Maraj

The 2018 UDSS Committee

Position?

Media representative

Undergraduate degree

B.Sc Physiology and Neuroscience (UWA)

What do you fear the most in dent?

Cooking the pulp

Greatest wish?

Star in a sitcom with washed up 90s actors

What do you do for fun?

Exercise, sport, exploring the outdooors, discovering new music, and competitive swimming

Position?

Media representative

Undergraduate degree?

Biomed and physio

What do you fear the most in dent?

When clinic sesion becomes a runway

Greatest wish?

Happiness to those I value

What do you do for fun?

I like to play sports, swim, volunteer and watch disney

Position?

ADSA representative

Undergraduate degree?

BPhil (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology with Italian) at UWA

What do you fear the most in dent?

Having a complaint against me to the Dental Board/ Convention not running smoothly/ Patient dying in chair

Greatest wish?

To lead a happy and fulfilled life

What do you do for fun?

Exercise

Muhamed Agag

Sing Yeen Yoong

Emma Turner

The 2018 UDSS Committee

Position?

Sports representative

Undergraduate degree?

Biomedicine, majoring in phys

What do you fear the most in dent?

Making mistakes that can’t be fixed

Greatest wish?

To be a good at lawn bowls

What do you do for fun?

SPORT!

Position?

Sports representative

Undergraduate degree?

Bachelor of Science (Hons)

What do you fear the most in dent?

Forgetting to wear gloves and safety glasses in optech

Greatest wish?

Help fix teeth in the Philippines

What do you do for fun?

When I’m not taking selfies with ferris wheels, I usually play basketball, ride my bicycle and eat+drinking

Position?

Senior social representative

Undergraduate degree?

BSc (Majoring in Pharmacology)

What do you fear the most in dent?

Not knowing what I don’t know

Greatest wish?

To live in that 50 million dollar house in Mosman park and have someone feed me grapes whilst sitting on a fancy throne

What do you do for fun?

Eat and then exercise so I can eat more

Maddy Cham

Francis Carlo Tenazas

Parnian Zareie

The 2018 UDSS Committee

Position?

Senior social representrative

Undergraduate degree?

Biomed

What do you fear the most in dent?

MB2

Greatest wish?

Buying one way ticket outta here

What do you do for fun?

Netflix n chill

Position?

Junior social representative

Undergraduate degree?

B.Sc Anatomy and Human Biology

What do you fear the most in dent?

Michelle

Greatest wish?

For it to be the year 2020 (graduation)

What do you do for fun?

Wine and cheese

Position?

Junior social representative

Undergraduate degree?

B.Sc (Pharmacology)

What do you fear the most in dent?

Giving a patient facial paralysis

Greatest wish?

For it to be Friday

What do you do for fun?

Socialise!

Ching Wen Tan

Zoe Thorning

Keely Johnson

The 2018 UDSS Committee

Position?

First year representative

Undergraduate degree?

Pharmacology and Finance (BSci)

What do you fear the most in dent?

The associated stress that comes with learning dentistry

Greatest wish?

To eventually have a happy and successful children in a happy family

What do you do for fun?

I like to paint, play frisbee, learn new instruments, watch soccer and go to the beach to swim! I also love volunteering

Position?

First year representative

Undergraduate degree?

BSc [H] Biology

What do you fear the most in dent?

Bad breath

Greatest wish?

World Peace

What do you do for fun?

Play video games, watch movies & TV shows, go on hikes, and play social sports

Position?

Second year representative

Undergraduate degree?

Bachelor of Commerece (Business Law)

What do you fear the most in dent?

Being late for certain classes.. or redoing Class IIs... class in general?

Greatest wish?

Health and happiness for those I care about :3

What do you do for fun?

Watching cricket, Kung Fu, Thrones, have a good chat

Sally Tan

Adam Kadri

Johnson Ye

The 2018 UDSS Committee

Position?

Second year representative

Undergraduate degree?

Masters in Biomedical Science

What do you fear the most in dent?

Iatrogenic damage in clinic

Greatest wish?

To never let the wife down and for the kids to have a bright future

What do you do for fun?

Think about that after graduation

Position?

Third year representative

Undergraduate degree?

Pharmacology and Physiology with honours in ASL and neurodegeneration!

What do you fear the most in dent?

Having to do a root canal filling on an upper sevenpls no.

Greatest wish?

Leave the world a little brighter than before i got here

What do you do for fun?

Slam poet events, modelling or painting!

Position?

Third year representative

Undergraduate degree?

What do you fear the most in dent?

Greatest wish?

What do you do for fun?

Ruohan Zhang

Zena Ibrahim

Georigia Charleson

The 2018 UDSS Committee

Position?

Fourth year representative

Undergraduate degree?

BCom (Finance and Physiology)

What do you fear the most in dent?

Slipping with the luxator into no-mands land

Greatest wish?

To have time and money to travel the world before I’m 30

What do you do for fun?

Binging superhero TV shows and movies

Position?

Fourth year representative

Undergraduate degree?

Engineering science

What do you fear the most in dent?

Mandibular complete dentures

Greatest wish?

A chance to travel and explore the world!

What do you do for fun?

Enjoy coffees, try new brunch places and shopping trips!

Position?

Alumni representative

Undergraduate degree?

BSc Biomedical Sciencs from Usyd

What do you fear the most in dent?

Insufficient clinic sessions

Greatest wish?

Having time to call my inter state bestie more often

What do you do for fun?

I like to socialize and hang out with friends in my spare time

Christopher Vu

Cina Yaqub

Natasha Koelmeyer

Prime & Bond

On Saturday the 24th of February the University Dental Student’s Society hosted their first social event of the year, Prime and Bond. The name of the event was chosen as such as it was the first opportunity for the first year dentistry cohort to bond with the older students. To encourage the first years to attend, their tickets to the event were free. As a consequence of this, the turnout from their cohort was great. In addition to this, students from all four cohorts, as well as other guests with connections to the dental school, were all in attendance and very eager to meet the new students. The event was held at the Captain Stirling Hotel in Nedlands.

Prime and Bond has been running annually for many years. We have to thank last years social representatives, Sarah and Claire, for helping us make

the event live up to the previous years. Hosting has been a great experience for the two of us and we can’t wait for the events to follow throughout this year.

Keely Johnson & Zoe Thorning – 2018 UDSS Social Representatives

Future Doctor’s Programme

On 18 Jan 2018, two of our DMD students, Emma Turner and Natasha Koelmeyer, ran a workshop to promote careers in dentistry as part of Scietech’s Future Doctors’ Programme

Over their hour-long session, they communicated the importance of dentistry in everyday life and its implications for general health, as well as the evolution of the profession and the distinction between careers in medicine and dentistry. Of particular interest to the students, each of the 13 dental specialties was explored either anecdotally, through videos, case studies or treatment plans. This helped the students to envisage the possibilities that a dental career would allow them to explore as health professionals. The session concluded with each student stepping into the shoes of a clinician by applying plaque disclosure solution to their partner’s teeth to demonstrate the effectiveness of their oral hygiene habits and to promote the importance of patient education.

UDSS Journal Club

Journal Club is back and running for its second year in 2018! Journal Club involves students pre-reading the prescribed articles for the relevant topic, followed by an interactive seminar discussing and critiquing the articles in question, and relating the concepts to clinical practice. Thank you to Dr Amanda Nyguyen, Oral Medicine Registrar for returning to Journal Club in February mediating the hot topic of Gingival and Mucosal Pathology. Welcome and thank you to our new education representatives Daniel Girgis and Ruth UM (DMD2) who have shown great enthusiasm and commitment to continue Journal Club in 2018 and beyond! Please save the date for our next meeting Tuesday 27th March on Oral Surgical Procedures for the General Dentist!

Sophia Hawes, DMD4 Research Representative.

Annual UDSS Dental Dinner

After a very busy, stressful, long and arduous year of intensive studies and having just completed final examinations, the UDSS Dental Dinner is the night every student looks forward to. It serves as a great way to finish off the year and for the students to relax and enjoy each other’s company and the company of the staff members in a more casual social setting. To conclude 2017, the Crown Towers was the venue of choice for the annual event, which took place 25th November.

Guests walked through the Big Top and into the ballroom, which was transformed into a Vintage Carnival. Guests were treated to some fresh popcorn as they watched a thrilling floorshow entertainment of acrobatics, juggling, ring manipulation, poi, LED effects, illusions and comedy. During food service, the performers roved around on stilts in between the tables mingling and posing for photographs. The dancefloor was pumping all night, but those who needed to catch their breath or for whom dancing isn’t their thing, could be found trying their luck at the Laughing Clowns and Lucky Numbers games in our very own SideShow Alley.

The 2017 Dental Dinner was the largest to date, selling a record number of tickets and filling the capacity of the ballroom. We had students from the DMD, DClinDent and OHT courses and of course notable staff members. We were very lucky to have had generous support from our Major Sponsors MDA National, Digident Laboratories, Bank of Queensland, LifeCare Dental, Class 1 Orthodontics, Envision Medical Imaging, and other generous friends of UDSS, without whom an event to this scale could not be possible.

Dr Keenan Inderjeeth and Dr Claudia Marino

Meet the new staff!

Stepping into 2018, a new year and a new semester, the UWA Denta School too welcomes new staff members!

Johan K.M. Aps (Associate Professor, Discipline Lead Dentomaxillofacial Radiology)

Background and Universities of Graduation:

Born and raised in Antwerp, Belgium.

My native language is Flemish (same as Dutch, but slightly different pronunciation, probably like American and British English), but I also speak French, German and English.

1993, University of Ghent in Belgium: dental degree

1997, University of Ghent in Belgium: Paediatric Dentistry and Special needs 2008, University of London in UK: Master of dental and maxillofacial radiology

Experience:

Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital : Taught local anaesthesia, dental and maxillofacial radiology and co-teach in the cariology/dental prevention course

University of Washington in Seattle, USA: Taught the entire dental and maxillofacial radiology course and set up a radiology interpretation service

University of Western Australia: Discipline Lead Dentomaxillofacial Radiology (29 January 2018)

Most memorable dental school experience:

My most memorable dental school experience was in the first week of my final year when I was approached by every department chair of the dental school, championing for their discipline and to convince me to pick their department to become a specialist. I decided to apply to paediatric dentistry and wrote a letter explaining why I excluded the other disciplines. The interview was fun and within an hour the entire school knew I was accepted. The other department chairs congratulated me, but I could sense their disappointment. Nevertheless, I maintained good relationships with all departments in my further career at my alma mater. My publications reflect my interests in all dental disciplines, which is paramount in dentomaxillofacial radiology.

What do I do to unwind:

I love my job and my job feels like a hobby. But I guess my real hobbies are photography, hiking, biking and attempting to play golf. The Perth climate will definitely have a positive impact on all of the latter.

University of Graduation:

Universidade Metodista de Sao Paulo, Brazil (UMESP) in 2000.

Most memorable Dental School Experience:

I would have to say that the most memorable moment during my graduation was when I got assigned my first patient and her smile after I finished her treatment. It is a feeling I don’t think I will ever forget.

What do I do to unwind:

For the last 4 years my favorite thing to do is spend time with Valentina, my daughter. Every waking moment that I have (that I don’t have to work, that is) I choose to spend with her.

University of graduation:

University of São Paulo, in Brazil

Most memorable dental school experience:

There were many memorable moments during my years at the dental school, but I believe my first day in the clinic doing a procedure in a patient was really special. It was in the Prosthodontic Discipline clinic and I had to take impressions of an edentulous patient. Fortunately the patient was very cooperative so it was not a traumatic experience. Perhaps this account for my interest in prosthodontics.

What do you normally do to unwind:

I like to go surfing, it’s my favourite activity. This is how I relax because all my problems stay outside the water.

Mario Ferrari (Senior Lecturer and DMD Coordinator)

Victor Haruo Matsubara (Senior lectuer in Prosthodontics)

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