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. And thank you Steve. Good to be with you. Our team has actually spent the past week and and a half in the east of Ukraine, quite relatively close to the front line, doing an assessment on locations for our field, our field emergency unit that we were setting up. That's, it's strange how things change when you actually visit a site. And one of the features that keeps popping up when we when we go to these locations is dental. Everybody's asking for dental. Every NGO we we spoke to, including MSF and 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 gonna do first. So we 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, left the area at the beginning of the war and they've had no dental service for, for, for probably nearly a year now. That is civilians and, and the military and, and they're really are battling. So they're short on supplies. They have no dentists in the, in the region and there, 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, if we can provide a dental service, there are let be thousands of people waiting to see dentists right now and that is all along the eastern frontline. So that's what we are working on for a start. And and that is our challenge to get a dental service going as soon as possible in, in the really, in really in the regions that need, need it the most. Yeah. Thank you for, for this opportunity to share. Thank you Michael. I appreciate that. I'd like to talk to Dr. Yuri just a minute. Dr. Yuri, you have been operating in these regions already with mobile clinics going in and out and you have a MOB one mobile dental unit already. What's your observation and how can we best be helpful there? Thank you, Maria. 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 cause we have an expensive dental care and the lack of dental care and you in, you are not able to even chew the food. You should look poor. 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 toothpaste and tooth pain in our patients. And we have, we have even a Ukrainian dentist who are willing to volunteers, but we don't have equipment of mobile portable units, dental units to help. Yes, we have our mobile, mobile clinic, but we have only one unit. And this one unit is able to cover 150 patients a month with eight mobile trips a month. But if we will have five units, six, five to seven units is minimum. So it'll cover, it'll help over 1000 of Ukrainians a month to be healthy and to be free from pain because it's a real, it's a real PGY and catastrophe with medical care, especially 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 gonna go to Dr. Riner. Dr. Riner, 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, those needs? Well, thank you Steve. Yes, I got a chance to work with Ukrainian refugees on the, 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, 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 are, can be set up anywhere. We can get right into the activity of, of, 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 one, you can go to the advent relief volunteer page and also call me because it's good to have contact with someone who is, 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. Riner for that appeal. We need Dennis and maybe friends you'd like to consider going to Ukraine and helping someone there who has great dental needs in the opportunity is there, so contact Dr. Ranker move in that direction if, if the Lord is impressing your heart, I wanna talk to Danny Kwan just a minute, Danny, you're on the equipment side of this. You've worked a lot of dental, 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 help Amen start their clinics and help 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, 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 gonna encounter over there near the front lines. And so what we can help with is, 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, 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 an under an hour and then packed up and put back into a small vehicle, a van or an SUV and moved to another location and set up again. And so that's, that's all what we hope to be able to achieve with these funds. Thank you so much Dana. 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's with AW R and we're talking about a partnership here actually Susanna and what is AW r 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, for having me here or join you Steve and I do want to, to let you know that Advent Adventist World Radio has committed to giving one of the dental units that we do use in our medical clinics and we will donate that for this cause and praise God. Praise God Because we, we believe that medical outreach is the right hand of the gospel and so in also to spread the gospel, we are going to be sending God pods which have the Bible spirit of prophecy, sermons, health talks and that can be given to the patients who come into to the clinic in our scene. And so we're excited to be able to partner in that way. Thank you so much Susan. I appreciate that. In the partnership with AW R Friends today, you've heard the need, you've heard about the situation there in Ukraine on the front lines, this huge need backlog for dental care. People are suffering there and like Dr. Yuri 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 5, 6, 7, 8 of these units there on the front lines functioning as soon as possible. And we're making an appeal today for you to get engaged. 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 to be involved in helping to relieve pain and suffering on the front lines in the Ukraine. God bless you.

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