Thank you, friends, for your support that relieves suffering and pain for many in Ukraine.This report focuses specifically on the dental needs of those near the front lines of the conflict. Most dentists fled the area months ago, and the needed equipment and supplies would be missing if they were there.Please watch this report and help meet this need as you are impressed by the Lord. We also ask you to share this report with others and pray for this project.Donate to the Ukraine Emergency Relief Fund here: https://outpostcenters.org/ukraineNote: To support the Ukraine effort, please donate through this link only and not to AudioVerse.

Thank you, friends, for your support that relieves suffering and pain for many in Ukraine.This report focuses specifically on the dental needs of those near the front lines of the conflict. Most dentists fled the area months ago, and the needed equipment and supplies would be missing if they were there.Please watch this report and help meet this need as you are impressed by the Lord. We also ask you to share this report with others and pray for this project.Donate to the Ukraine Emergency Relief Fund here: <a href="https://outpostcenters.org/ukraine" target="_blank">https://outpostcenters.org/ukraine</a>Note: To support the Ukraine effort, please donate through this link only and not to AudioVerse.

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Steve Dickman

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Ukraine Live Report 27: Dental Edition


Hi, friends. My name is Steve Dickman, President for Outpost Centers International. We're doing a special report today on the need for dental care in Ukraine. This need has been developing over time and has become more and more critical, especially on the frontline areas where the damage to infrastructure has been extreme and many of the people there have pulled back and are not functioning there. So this appeal is to try and bring dental care back to the frontline area or near the frontline area to provide for some of those needs.

I have with me today, Dr. Michael, who is with Advent Relief. Michael, could you just talk to us a little bit about what you're seeing there? You're in the country of Ukraine right now. You've been there on the front lines, near the front lines.

Tell us what's happening there and what the need that you've observed. Thank you, Steve. Good to be with you. Our team has actually spent the past week and a half in the east of Ukraine, quite relatively close to the front line, doing an assessment on locations for our field emergency unit that we were setting up. It's strange how things change when you actually visit a site and 1 of the features that keeps popping up when we go to these locations is dental.

Everybody's asking for dental. Every NGO we spoke to, including MSF and a range of other smaller NGOs, kept saying to us, do you have dental? And So we've actually reordered our thinking around what we're going to do first. So we're actually prioritizing dental over our other medical services that we're working on because that is what the need is. They basically were telling us that the dentists left the area at the beginning of the war and they've had no dental service for nearly a year now.

That is civilians and the military. And they really are battling. So they're short on supplies, they have no dentists in the region and there are no NGOs actually doing dental services at the moment. So that is really an area we're focusing on. They told us if we can provide a dental service, there are literally thousands of people waiting to see dentists right now and that is all along the eastern front line.

So that's what we're working on for a start and that is our challenge to get a dental service going as soon as possible in the regions that need it the most. Thank you for this opportunity to share. Thank you, Michael. I appreciate that. I'd like to talk to Dr.

Yuriy just a minute. Dr. Yuriy, you have been operating in these regions already with mobile clinics going in and out. And you have 1 mobile dental unit already. What's your observation and how can we best be helpful there?

Thank you my dear friends for readiness to help because it's, you know, it's not about amazing smile, it's about quality of life and about surviving because we have an expense in dental care and the lack of dental care and you're not able to even chew the food you should look for. So it's not about smile, it's about quality of life and surviving. We have enough pain as Ukrainians, my friends, and we will be so grateful that you will decrease our level of toothache and tooth pain in our patients. And we have even a Ukrainian dentist who are willing to volunteer, but we don't have equipment of mobile portable units, dental units to help. Yes, we have our mobile clinic, but we have only 1 unit.

And this 1 unit is able to cover 150 patients a month with 8 mobile trips a month. But if we will have 5 units, 6, 5 to 7 units is minimum. So it will cover, it will help over 1, 000 of Ukrainians a month to be healthy and to be free from pain because It's a real tragedy and catastrophe with medical care, especially on liberated territories. We covered over 80 cities and towns and villages during this year, and I can assure you this is a topic what we need to discuss and to help. Thank you.

Thank you, Dr. Yuri. I appreciate that. I'm going to go to Dr. Rinker.

Dr. Rinker, you've been serving in Moldova in the last year or so. You've spent some time there. And now we're talking about Ukraine and going into Ukraine and serving near the front lines and needing some dentists. What would you say to those needs?

Well thank you Steve. Yes, I got a chance to work with Ukrainian refugees on the border of Moldova. And I can tell you this, that it was an incredible experience. And so now we've got another great opportunity. And now's the time to act, not to talk, but to do.

And so we have these dental units, these mobile dental units that can be set up anywhere. We can get right into the activity of healing and taking care of dental needs. And so we need, obviously, we need money. We always do. And the second thing is we need dentists.

And so if you're willing to volunteer, number 1, you can go to the Advent Relief Volunteer page and also call me because it's good to have contact with someone who's been there, done that, and I can be of encouragement and help and answer questions. So bottom line is it's opportunity time, it's time to roll. Thank you, Dr. Renker for that appeal. We need dentists and maybe friends you'd like to consider going to Ukraine and helping someone there who has great dental needs and the Opportunity is there so Contact dr.

Rinker move in that direction if the Lord is impressing your heart 1 talk to Danny Kwan just a minute Danny. You're on the equipment side of this. You've worked a lot of mobile dental clinics across the US and around the world. What do you see here with the equipment and how that could come together and really be helpful in this situation? Thank you, Steve.

I'm with Life and Health Network and I used to be with Amen and helped Amen start their clinics and helped Adventist organizations start mobile dentistry and I think a lot of people when they think about the dentist they think about their own experience and that's in a nice comfortable padded chair you know looking at a nice screen and with beautiful shiny equipment everywhere And so it's sometimes hard to imagine how you're gonna duplicate that out in the field. But what we've been able to do over the years, and I've done over 70 clinics, is be able to set up clinic situation in any setting. We've done it under tents, we've done it in gymnasiums, We've done it with no power, just using solar. These are the kind of extreme situations that I'm anticipating that we're going to encounter over there near the front lines. And so what we can help with is setting up, you know, portable pop-up type dentistry, which you may have seen with Amen Clinics and Pathways and that we're doing now with Life and Health.

And so, you know, we'll make sure that every dollar is spent efficiently and that we will have the best quality versus price to be deployed out in the field and things that can be repaired, things that can be replaced easily is the goal. Things that can be set up quickly, like in under an hour, and then packed up and put back into a small vehicle, a van or an SUV, and move to another location and set up again. And so that's what we hope to be able to achieve with these funds. Thank you so much, Danny. Appreciate that.

Gives us the view of portability and the need to move around, especially when you're in this frontline environment, would be extremely helpful there. So thank you for that. I want to talk to Susanna for just a moment. Susanna is with AWR and we're talking about a partnership here actually Susanna. And what is AWR able to help with here as we're looking at this?

We don't want to just help people with their physical need. We also want to help them spiritually. Absolutely. Thank you so much for having me here. We're joined you, Steve.

And I do want to let you know that Adventist World Radio has committed to giving 1 of the dental units that we do use in our medical clinics, and we will donate that for this cause. Praise God. Praise God. And because We believe that medical outreach is the right hand of the gospel. And so, also to spread the gospel, we are going to be sending God Pods, which have the Bible, Spirit of Prophecy, sermons, health talks, that can be given to the patients who come into the clinic and are seen.

And so we're excited to be able to partner in that way. Thank you so much, Suzanne. I appreciate that and the partnership with AWR. Friends today, you've heard the need. You've heard about the situation there in Ukraine on the frontlines, this huge need, backlog for dental care, people are suffering there and like Dr.Uri said it's not necessarily about giving them a good smile.

But it's about helping to relieve the pain and suffering that they're in right now. We've estimated that we can put these units in the field set up and functional there for about $15, 000 a unit. We'd like to see 5678 of these units. They're on the front lines functioning as soon as possible. And we're making an appeal today for you to get engaged.

A couple of things you can do. You could volunteer and go help there. You can pray for this operation that the Lord will bless it and that he will provide safety in the midst of a difficult situation. You can also give. Our address there will be showing up online for a portal where you can click in and you can contribute to the work of the dental needs there on the front lines in the Ukraine.

The other thing that you can do though is share this opportunity with your friends. You can Send this link to someone else and say watch this video and see this need That so that we can work together as we partner together. We can do more. Thank you friends for watching today Share this needs with your friends And pray and See how God would lead you

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