European University of Lefke (EUL), Faculty of Dentistry and the Dentistry Club affiliated with the Social Cultural Activities Centre organised a documentary and a talk on “The Fear of the Dentist”.

Prof. Dr. Ertuğrul Sabah, who has travelled 57 thousand kilometres and reached 45 thousand mentally disabled people and continues to work for the dental health of the mentally disabled, participated in the interview on “Fear of the Dentist”.

After the documentary screening at the EUL Faculty of Law Conference Hall, Sabah stated that the Association, which consists of young volunteer dentists who founded the Aegean Oral and Dental Health and Dentists Association in 2001 in Izmir, has taken dental treatment to the feet of the patients with the system it has developed for people with mental disabilities living at home or in homes with disabilities in Türkiye.  Sabah also shared with the participants that the association has developed fully equipped mobile dentistry units to carry out oral and dental examinations of mentally disabled patients and to apply the necessary treatment methods.

At the end of the interview, Sabah stated that thanks to this system, which takes the service to the feet of the patients and is applied for the first time in Türkiye, many procedures can be performed from root canal treatment to filling, and that the treatment is ensured to be sustainable by providing tooth brushing training to the patients.