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10 Dental Tribune Middle East & Africa Edition | January - February 2014industry Inauguration of Carestream Dental Training Centre for Knowledge and Care in Ajman UAE “Carestream, Innovation made Simple” By Dental Tribune Middle East A JAMAN, UAE: Care- stream Dental hosted the official opening of the Ajman University Dental Centre for Care in UAE on 30th of October 2013. Dr. Aisha Sultan, Director of Den- tal Services, MOH, UAE was the Guest of Honor alongside more than 60 attendees. The event was opened with a warm welcome by Dr. Mohd. Kashif Shafiq of Ajman Uni- versity Dental College who introduced Dr. Aisha Sultan Alsuwaidi, Director of Den- tal Services at the Ministry of Health in UAE alongside several VIPs including Deans from Dental Colleges across the UAE as well as regional dental industry dealers. Carestream Dental has part- nered up with Ajman Univer- sity to combine academia and business through the opening of the new Carestream Den- By Dental Tribune Middle East A JAMAN, UAE: Den- tal Tribune Middle East & Africa covered the Inauguration of the Carestream Dental Train- ing Centre for Knowledge and Care in Ajman, UAE. During the event we caught up with Dave F. Pullen, General Man- ager Dental Business Europe, Africa and Middle East Region and Fritz Dittman, Regional Sales and Service Director for Northern Europe, Middle East, Russia and Africa. DTMEA: Why should the den- tists chose Carestream? Dave Pullen: Carestream origi- nated from Eastman Kodak. All the heritage, trust and quality in Eastman Kodak was inher- ited by Carestream. Then a company called Onex (equity company) helped to extract the medical and dental busi- ness from Kodak and invested in Carestream which became a 2.5 billion corporation. Prior to the rebranding of Carestream, Kodak bought Trophy, known for innovating the sensor and tal Training Centre resulting in a win-win situation across the board. According to Fritz Dittman, Regional Sales and Service Director Northern Europe, Middle East, Rus- sia and Africa, “Next to the fact that the University has a great team, being able to take X-Rays and constantly have our equipment in use are the main reasons behind this partnership. The benefits are clear, this is a unique op- portunity which will lead to great things. We can train our customers, their technicians, dealer engineers and in the future application training for dentists and clinicians as the equipment evolves. Custom- ers from the Middle East no longer have to travel to USA or Europe to be trained how to use our technologies.” The Ajman University Dental College is one of the pioneers of oral and dental healthcare education in the country with well-structured and accred- ited programs. With over 130 PracticeWorks (Practice Man- agement Software mainly in America) known for the R4 which we successfully brought into the Middle East. Care- stream was Kodak and since the rebranding and acquisition nearly six years ago has done lots of things like improve the RVG sensor substantially, get dental units and a very expe- rienced and highly qualified faculty, the college is one of the largest in the middle-east providing free dental services to dental patients. Under the leadership of Prof. Salem Abu Fanas, Dean of Ajman Uni- versity of Science & Technol- ogy the college has produced 12 batches of quality dental graduates who are already very well received by the den- tal industry. Mr. Osama Saeed Abdulla Salman, Vice Presi- dent of Ajman University of Science & Technology com- mented in his opening speech, “Ajman University of Sciences & Technology has become a hub for higher education in the entire region. We are now working hard on becoming the hub leader in Research & Development. R&D is what makes Carestream and the University what we are, it is our dream, our ambition and our vision.” Prof. Salem Abu Fanas, Dean of Ajman University Dental College further explained “Our vision at the Ajman Uni- versity Dental College is clear, we are catering for 130 clin- ics and until today we have treated over 40,000 patients coming to Ajman from all over the UAE. There is a great demand for education. Last year alone we received more than 350 applications from students willing to join our university, double of what we can cope with.” Prof. Abu Fa- nas further commented on the partnership with Carestream as “a new landmark for the college”. The University is very pleased with these new facilities. “I would like to ex- press my sincere gratitude to those who made it possible. Thank you to Carestream for enabling this project to take place as well as Mr. Fritz Di- etman and Montessar Ben Tili together with their fantastic team who all went far beyond their core of duty to see the success of it” were the clos- ing words of Prof. Salem Abu Fanas. After the ceremony, the del- egates were taken for a tour of the new facilities witness- ing the ribbon-cutting of the new Training Centre. Make sure you visit Carestream at AEEDC Dubai 2014. Official opening of the Carestream Training Centre for Knowledge and Care in Ajman UAE Dr. Aisha Sultan Alsuwaidi, Director of Dental Ser > Page 11