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   We invite you to the photo exhibition of Ms Aleksandra Gnaczyńska, a student of the Faculty of Dentistry at the Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, on 22 March 2025 at 10.30 a.m. at the Main Library of the Pomeranian Medical University, 20 Powstańców Wielkopolskich Avenue. 

The exhibition is organised in connection with World Oral Health Day, which is celebrated on 20 March 2025 in over 100 countries around the world on the initiative of the World Dental Federation and aims to promote oral health. 

Quiz: The exhibition will be accompanied by two quizzes for students: anatomical and histological. The questions with are in QR codes will be located in the library hall. Prizes will be raffled among the visitors of the exhibition. 

We support: Every visitor to the exhibition can make a small contribution to support the charity and auction for Adaś in his fight against DMD, which students of the PUM STN and IFMSA Poland, Szczecin branch are promoted. 

Every dentist is an artist to some extent. They should be. They often recreate the beauty of a smile, restoring not only health but also beauty to their patients. The external beauty of straight, white teeth is something everyone can see. The gift of seeing the beauty inside a tooth and bringing it out is something few have. Aleksandra Gnaczyńska is one of them. A 4^th-year student of Dentistry at the Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, she is a member of the Student Scientific Society at the Department of Propaedeutics, Physical Diagnostics and Dental Physiotherapy at the Pomeranian Medical University. 

With the help of a very thin grinding technique (0.2 mm), she brought to light the secret beauty and harmony of the tissues that make up a single unit, commonly known as a tooth. She managed to show the beauty of the endodontium - functionally connected dentine, blood vessels and nerves with endings in the sinuous dentinal tubules, radially arranged enamel prisms and a thin layer of root cementum. She then illuminated, photographed and graphically processed all of this.  

In some of the polishes, she managed to capture the various stages of the defence that the endodontium uses against the attacking cariogenic bacteria, the hypermineralisation of the dentine under the gradually worn enamel and the tissue cracks caused by overload - that is, the traces of the teeth's history preserved in the tissues. 

Dr Sławomir Badurek is right when he writes that social campaigns, including those promoting oral health, should no longer be conducted with ‘fire and sword’, but with memes, posters or exhibitions.  

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