The department of Pediatric Dentistry was founded in September 1998 by the faculty of the M. I. Pirogov Vinnytsia State Medical University. On 01.10.99, the Department launched the new base with a total area of 350 m2, the effective area of 250 m2. In these areas allocated 7 clinical rooms, which are 11 dental units. These rooms held teaching medical, dental surgery and prevention of dental diseases, Hall of orthodontic, dental laboratory, a room for the central sterilization of instruments, materials, 2 phantom classes and methodical study.
The Head chair of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry of Vinnitsya National Medical University named after M. I. Pirogov since its inception was Associate Professor, PhD Y. V. Filimonov. In 1978, he graduated from Donetsk Medical Institute, and from 1981 to 1998 he worked in Ivano-Frankivsk Medical Academy. During this time he had 50 articles on current issues in the early diagnosis and treatment of anomalies of the teeth-jaw apparatus of his own invention. In 1992 he defended his research work “The Treatment of the Teeth-jaw Anomalies Arc Removable Device” in Kiev. He registered 4 patents, 11 innovations and 10 papers at scientific international conferences.
Assoc. Filimonov Y. V. conducted 30 appearances on the television program on the development and operation of the department.
Brazhenko Y. F., born 1954, graduated from Donetsk Medical Institute. Gorky in 1977 Dentistry. He has been at the Department of pediatric dentistry in Vinnytsia National Medical University named after M.I. Pirogov since 2000. He performs a workload of 900 semester hours, including 34 hours of lecture. He received a PhD in 1989 and became an associate professor. The professor holds the PhD degree in a specialized scientific council of Lviv State Medical University on “Bridges to Cast Parapulpar Pins”. He is the author of 35 published articles including 5 monographs, 30 innovations, 5 patents and 15 appearances.
Prof. Shuvalov S. G. worked for the department in 2000-2005, graduated from the Irkutsk Medical Institute, Faculty of Dentistry in 1973 and is known as an MD, professor and doctor of the highest category. At the end of medical school from 1973 to 1977, he worked as a dental surgeon in Minusinsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory. From 1977 to 1979 he studied in clinical internship in Irkutsk Medical Institute at the Department of Operative Dentistry, and then from 1979 to 1990 worked as an assistant chair of dental surgery at Krasnoyarsk Medical Institute. From 1980 to 1984 he worked as an assistant to the dean and took an active part in the creation of the Faculty of Dentistry. Currently he conducts workshops and lectures for students of III-V years.
In 1987, in Omsk he defended the thesis “Treatment of Purulent Wounds in Odontogenic Phlegmon Using Properties of Semi-permeable Membranes”. He is the author of 109 publications, including 1 book, 2 manuals, 3 guidelines, 3 inventions and 26 innovations. In 1999 he defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Oropharyngeal Cancers” (Kiev). Since 2005 he has been the head of the Department of Surgical Dentistry.
Planned new scientific theme of the Department is prevention, diagnosis, treatment of oral diseases of сhildren and teenegers of Podollyan region. To date, the department continues to work toward the accumulation of clinical material, improvement of diagnostic methods and standardized algorithms for diagnosis, collation, analysis and synthesis.
At scientific conferences 30 articles were published, 5 presentations within the Vinnytsia region, 2 in the report — Ivano-Frankivsk, 2 reports at the II Congress of the Ukrainian Dental 22-24 February, a report in Moscow, Leipzig, Turkey, Germany.
Isakova N. M. successfully completed her dissertation “The Combined Treatment of Patients with Purulent Inflammation of Maxillofacial Area with Antibiotics” in Kiev in December 25, 2005 and was awarded with the title of candidate of medical sciences. Isakova N. M. printed an article about the development of the department in the newspaper “Vinnichiny”.
Dmitriev M.O. defended his thesis for the scientific degree of candidate of medical sciences “Features and Odontokefalometriс Performance in Adolescents with Orthognathic Bite” on 30 November 2005 and was awarded with the title of candidate of medical sciences.