"…
at the beginning of the very beginning… what bothered me most at the Faculty
was the quietness… there was some sort of silence which didn’t become
a place where the student spirit resides… There was an acceptance of the
everyday rhythm without any question… Dentitia broke through all that
… we invested our hearts to succeed in changing at least something. The
smell of printed paper… Leafing for the hundredth time through the editions
that are still smelling as if they are just off the press… A
certain feeling that we are speaking! It somehow started to live…It started
to breathe even stronger!… "
Ana Angelova , the first editor of Dentitia
The
beginnings
AND
THERE WAS Dentitia. June 4, 1994 has a symbolic meaning for Dentitia,
it is the D-Day. It was then that Dentitia was given its Soul by a small
group of enthusiastic students- its idea and content postulates were
established. In a short period of time it is Embodied- it gets its visual
index, easily recognisable and stylish( the form and the design correspond
with the contents within). It enriches with a Youthful charm the First
Student Dentistry Congress ( on 23.7.1994). The successful promotion
ties a beautiful bow on it as a lucky charm in the process of finding
its way to the hearts of the current and future generations of students
and professors. It was promoted by Dragan Veleski, a professor at the
Faculty of Dentistry, Skopje. The beautifully packaged gift that was
Dentitia was unraveled hungrily by all the people interested in the
printed media, the science of dentistry, culture and entertainment.
The days between 23-26.2. 1995 are holidays for Dentitia. At the Student
Dentistry Congress in Istanbul , Turkey ( organised by IOSS- the International
Organisation of Dentistry Students) Dentitia was named the best student
dentistry magazine. The words of support are always welcome generators
of positive creative energy. Dentitia draws from the youthful Enthusiasm
and Spirit in order to be always New, Original, Alive, Ours… The six
successful editions have seen the light of day, the seventh is in the
stages of intensive creation, but some of the articles from the seventh
edition are already available for reading on the Internet.
Contents
The editorial
concepts of the idea and esthetic contents are not rigid, they are open
to creative flexibility and inspiration dictated by the Spirit of the
Times. However, in order for the basic contents to avoid falling into
creative chaos, Dentitia follows the general principle of subordination
of the content; texts that belong to the domain of science and texts
from the domain of culture.
In
the first part, Dentitia dedicates space to scientific issues covering
all the stomatological disciplines ( scientific news, works by students
in collaboration with teachers and professors, short reviews of the
newly published books from the field of science).
In
the cultural domain, there are contents that include texts by authors-
essays, interesting surveys that cover interesting issues and try to
determine public opinion, texts inspired by the Spirit of art ( film,
music, theater and literature).
The
entertainment section contains a comic strip and a special entity Caries
profunda which is undoubtedly the most relaxing impulse which adds a
charming note to Dentitia.
Dentitia educates,
satisfies the cultural and the esthetic impulses, cheers you up…
Goals
Dentitia respects
its own credo- the intellectual is a complete person ; the definition
of the intellectual includes not only a high level of education and
expertise of a person, but also its potential and accomplished creative
characteristics. The intellectual in the broader sense of the word is
a versatile person, with a great intellect and a broad range of knowledge
of a variety of natural, civilizational and cultural terms. In that
perspective, in the perspective of its own credo, Dentitia rounds off
its existence. The ideas and goals are multidimensional and with every
new inclusion of members to Dentitia, the goals get richer. Practically
, every member of Dentitia has a Goal of its own. However, there is
one goal that unites us all – bringing each other closer on a scientific
and cultural level through the possibilities that the printed medium
offers us. Will give some of the Dentitia postulates now;
Dentitia on-line
Dentitia has
the honor to be the first Macedonian student magazine whose pages are
available for reading in the fastest, most efficient, and modern way.
The Era of the Modern Age with all its potentials has not forgotten
dentistry, on the contrary, dentistry has started to use the most contemporary
trends on the filed of communications- the Internet....
"….If
you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can
think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can
meet with triumph and disaster
And treat
those two imposters just the same;
If you can
talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with
kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither
foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men
count with you, but none too much;
…And - which
is more - you'll be a Man my son!"
Kipling
Daniela
Veleska
(the article was published in the Bulletin of the
Macedonian Medical Chamber)