First digital dental laboratory opens at Damascus University

The first digital dental laboratory at the level of public universities was opened on Wednesday at the Faculty of Dentistry at Damascus University, at a cost of more than one billion Syrian pounds.

Dr. Bassam Ibrahim, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, stated in t after the inauguration that the laboratory is the product of the partnership and cooperation between the university and the private sector companies.

Rector of Damascus University, Dr. Muhammad Osama Al-Jabban, pointed out that the opening of the laboratory coincides with the university’s celebration of the centenary of its founding and in light of the whole world’s tendency towards digital transformation. He underlined the importance of this transformation in qualifying our students and teaching them how to use digital transformation tools in diagnostic treatments and procedures, accomplishing distinguished research at the academic level and postgraduate studies, and serving the research process, in addition to providing an ideal treatment service.

Hussam Al-Tabbaa, representative of the Digital Portal Company for the Dental World in Syria, confirmed that the laboratory will be an encouragement and motivating factor for students to achieve their aspirations and make more efforts to reach the stage of achievement and creativity. The laboratory will provide scientific and medical services with modern technologies, and ease work of doctors so that the treatment and diagnosis process becomes more straightforward, faster and more accurate. He stressed the importance of keeping pace with scientific and technological development in order for our students to become acquainted with the latest technologies in a way that qualifies them and helps them enter the labor market directly.

Dr. Fadia Deeb, Assistant Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research for Scientific Affairs, indicated that the digital transformation is continuous and permanent in the world of dentistry, so it is necessary to add these equipments in the College of Dentistry to qualify master’s and doctoral students who also wish to develop their research at the global level, and start keeping pace with the latest developments.

Dean of the College of Dentistry, Dr. KhaldounDarwish, said: This laboratory will open the way for the dissemination of digital culture well among the students of the college, and gives the possibility and ability to raise the level of research by making use of the laboratory’s equipment. This enables us in the future to provide greater and better treatment services to patients and transforming to export this modern technology.

Inas Abdulkareem