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2ND QUARTER 2021 • VOLUME 22 NO. 2 • ISSN 1018-1466 JOURNAL OHASAOFFICIAL MOUTHPIECE OF THE ORAL HYGIENISTS’ ASSOCIATION OF SoUTH AFRICA HELPS REBUILD & STRENGTHEN YOUR ENAMEL No.1 DENTIST RECOMMENDED BRAND FOR SENSITIVE TEETH* Specialized Enamel Protection Rebuilds, Restores, Refreshes *IPSOS Expert Performance Tracking 2020 GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare South Africa (Pty) Ltd. 57 Sloane Street, Bryanston, 2021. Reg. No.: 2014/173930/07. For any further information, including safety information, please contact the GSK Hotline on +27 11 745 6001 15853 or 0800 118 274. Trademarks are owned by or licensed to GSK group of companies. Refer to carton for full use instructions. Promotion Number: PM-ZA-SENO-20-00123 15853 Pronamel Advert OHASA PRESS.indd 1 2021/01/25 16:59 NON- ABRASIVE TECHNOLOGY1 PROTECTS AGAINST FUTURE STAINS1 HELPS REMOVE 99 % OF GERMS2 MILDER TASTE CONTENTS EDITORIAL 20 Decolonising dental education: If not 2 From the Editor’s desk now, then when? Part 1 RUGSHANA CADER SIZAKELE NDWANDwe (BOH) and TASNEEM AJam (BOH) 3 From the President’s desk STELLA LAMPRECHT 24 South African tobacco smoking cessation clinical practice guideline 4 Guest Editorial RN VAN ZYL-SmIT, B ALLWOOD, D STICKELLS, BRUNA DESSENA G SYMONS, S ABDOOL-gAFFAR, K MURPHY, A VANKER, K DHEDA, GA RICHARDS RESEARCH 5 Positioning depression as a critical OHASA NEWS factor in creating a toxic workplace 32 News from the Gauteng Branch environment for diminishing worker productivity 34 UWC update SAMMA FAIZ RASOOL , RASHID MAQBOOL, MADEEHA SAMMA, YAN ZHAO, AND AMNA 35 ISDH 2020 call for abstracts ANJUM 37 Faculty of health sciences 47th 15 The effectiveness of a pre- annual awards ceremony procedural mouthrinse in reducing bacteria on radiographic phosphor plates ALLISON HUNTER, SAJITHA KALATHINGAL, MICHAEL SHROUT, KEVIN PLUMMER, STEPHEN LOONEY EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Managing Editor Rugshana Cader | Tel: (021) 937 3123/(021) 370 4409 | Cell: 082 710 7103 | E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Co-Editors Published by Anri Bernardo, E-mail: [email protected] | Lesley Vorster, E-mail: [email protected] Stella Lamprecht, E-mail: [email protected] OHASA OFFICE PO Box 830, Newlands, 0049 | Fax: 086 696 7313 | E-mail: [email protected] | [email protected] | Website: http://www.ohasa.co.za PUBLISHER Kashan Advertising | Reg. 2020/131924/07 | E-mail: [email protected] On behalf of PRODUCTION OFFICE Kashan Advertising | Tel: (012) 342 8163 | Fax: 086 645 0474 | E-mail: [email protected] | Website: www.kashan.co.za Sub-editor: Caro Heard | Layout and Design: Kashan Advertising ISSN 1018-1466 © 2021 All rights reserved in text: OHASA. © 2021 All rights reserved in design: Kashan Advertising. 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The publication of advertisements in this magazine does not imply an endorsement by the publisher or its editorial office/board and does not guarantee any claims made for products by their manufacturers. 2ND QUARTER 2021 • vOLUME 22 NO. 2 PAGE 1 editorial FROM the EDItoR’S DesK Earlier this month, I was with a group of people We sat in gob-smacked silence when Kim finished and we were all lamenting the current state of speaking. She simply smiled and said, “Come on affairs – COVID-19, the Third Wave, should we guys. It’s no big deal. It’s not as if I invented sliced take the vaccine or not, the Palestinian Struggle, bread or something.” But it WAS a big deal and it is the Zondo Commission, the corruption, the crime, even better than sliced bread. We all felt a seismic same old, same old. It was all so tiring, draining and shift in the conversation, in the rest of the evening depressing, until a lady (let’s call her Kim) spoke and yes, in our lives. For many of you, that last bit up and gave us a perspective that quite honestly, sounds melodramatic but please stay with me on is potentially life-changing. this. I said this is potentially life-changing and it IS, Rugshana Cader Kim said, “You are all talking about such negative if you allow it to be. Managing Editor things. Things that weigh you down, things that add Take a moment, close your eyes and place to the immense weight on your shoulders. Reading your hand on your heart. Breathe in slowly and about the negatives, speaking about them, agitating listen to the silence. Now open your eyes and if they have a child at school – if yes, then invite about them can easily turn the negative part of your stay in the moment. Think of everything you can them home on a weekend to use your Wi-Fi; carry life into the person you are. It means you fill your be grateful for – your health, your family, your job, fruit in your car to give to the car guard. Whatever being with that which is negative. How then will your material possessions, the beauty of nature you do, just GIVE, of your money, of yourself. Trust you emerge as a positive being?” around you. Compare that to bombs landing on me, the giver always feels better than the recipient. Kim continued, “I am not saying that we must housing settlements in Gaza, the COVID-19 death And that ultimately is what this piece is all about. ignore the painful realities of life around us or that rate in India, the poverty in our rural areas, the We are all looking to improve our lives – to feel we should all be tree-hugging airy-fairies – what I joblessness of especially our youth, the suffocating better, to be in better spaces. Only we can get am saying is that there is another way. And it is the smog of so many cities in the world. Spare a thought ourselves into that space. It starts with gratitude. way of positivity. How about we only skim over all for children whose futures are destroyed by war; If we begin our day in gratitude, invariably the rest the negative stuff and then focus, really focus, on for the gogos who must now raise grandchildren of the day will be spent like that. Make gratitude a the positive things, the innumerable blessings in our because their parents are no more; for the victims habit and watch the blessings pour into your life. It lives; things we should be grateful for in our lives and the survivors of the horrific crimes that occur is true that what you put out into the universe will and in the lives of our friends and families. I follow in our country. Spare a thought for all of that, look come back to you. Have you ever wondered how the news, I know what is going on in the world, I what is happening in the world and ask yourself, some people always seem so happy and they are am not an ostrich with my head in the sand. I read “How can I NOT be grateful for all that I have?” always smiling and content? That has nothing to all the negative stories but I CHOOSE not to fixate Now that we understand that we do, in fact, have do with money or material wealth – we all know on them. Rather, I look for the positive, feel-good so much to be grateful for, we can turn that gratitude of very wealthy people who are very miserable. stories and then I FOCUS on those, and I let them into action. Allow me to share examples of actions A meaningful life is not being rich, being popular, become a part of my being. I focus on the petrol of gratitude that will make a huge difference in your being highly educated or being perfect. It is about attendant who paid for a lady’s fuel when she life. Here goes: the next time you order take-outs, being real, being humble, being able to share forgot her purse at home, or my colleague who sent order a drink or hot chips for the delivery guy and ourselves and touch the lives of others. money via e-wallet to a student because he was watch his face light up in surprise and gratitude; if hungry over a weekend, or my son’s teacher who you can afford it, go to PEP Stores and ask if any You have no need to look beyond yourself. What initiated reading sessions at a local old-age home. customer has put school uniform on lay-bye, then you seek is within, if only you reflect ● Such stories lift me up, fill me with hope, and help pay for it anonymously and just imagine how that to wash away all the negativity around me. Focus mom will feel when she finds out the uniform is paid on the positive and the positive will become YOU.” for; if you are lucky to have a domestic worker, ask PAGE 2 OHASA JOURNAL EDITORIAL FROM the Stella Lamprecht OHASA president PResIDent’S DesK As we welcome the second quarter of the year, we are all still faced with the COVID-19 pandemic; however, it is my hope that our oral healthcare practitioners will take comfort in knowing that many of our healthcare practitioners have now been vaccinated (by choice), proper infection control is being practiced, and correct personal protective equipment is being used.