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Dr. Rizali Noor, founder of YKGI, challenged Sr. Kien to be YKGI's coodinator

      It was Dr. Rizali Noor as head of the dental health department who in 1972 challenged Drg. Be Kien Nio to prove that a clinic based on prevention and health education can be lucrative for the staff and at the same time improve dental health of its patients. The implementation was left to Drg. Be, who at that time lectured Preventive Dentistry on at the Public University of Padjadjaran Bandung. With a few colleagues and friends a foundation was founded with a notary act and a board was gathered to decide on regulations aims and targets. A simple planning was made but the basic philosophy was the improvement of Oral and dental health through prevention and Dental Health Education. In the first years the foundation received help from Australia for her fluorides and from the local Church-specifically the Ursuline Sisters agreed to the use of a big room to start the project. The clinic was officially opened in 1973. The first school that cooperated with the idea was a nearby primary school in 1972, taking the children class by class starting from the first grade until it was possible to take in more classes and gradually the whole school was enrolled and the School Dental Service (Usaha Kesehatan Gigi Sekolah /or UKGS was integrated into the school curriculum.

      The parents of the children were informed of the programmed, and since then it has become a part of the introduction to parents when the new school year starts; the information to parents includes what is done and not done by the school dental service (see to prevent misunderstanding and to obtain permission of the parents to treat their children should treatment be necessary. By the year 1997 the Foundation had 6 Primary School and 9 Kindergartens both private and public with a total of 4000 children.

      Belonging to a religious order that is dedicated to education Drg Be (often called Sr Kien) was and still is very interested in the educational/promotional aspect of the project. In the year 1979 at the suggestion of a colleague a Dental Health Education Section was formed which concentrated on Dental Health Education. All educational material was gathered and published - lessons as well as audiovisual aids (from the most simple flashcards to other audiovisual material slides) The Dental Health Education Section has grown into a good business, as the lessons on Dental health range from Kindergarten booklets to 6 booklets for each grade of the Primary School a few teacher who knew about teaching methods and instructions were employed, so that our team of 16 members consisted out of dentists, dental nurses and dental assistants, 16.

      In 1975 the need for an adult clinic became obvious and at the request of the parents of our school children a clinic was opened in a poor region not far from our School Dental Service with a social aspect; and cheap services. The children of the school dental service who needed treatment could come to this clinic for free if they came at their own initiative and if it was kind of treatment promised in our planning; simple fillings and relieve of pain. Complicated treatments - like extractions with local anesthetics are referred to their private dentists or the adult clinic moved from this poor area to a room next to the school dental service and furnished in 1982.
To subsidies the programmed in the morning the dental facilities are rented to private dentists who can practice and share their income with the foundation, in this way the foundation has been able to finance the morning programmers the adult clinic as well as the school dental service, while the staff has to work hard on prevention to lesson expenses necessary for dental treatment.

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