COASS
Project Details
Explain your project in details:
7 of 10 of Indonesian People have dental problems. This situation is triggered by relatively expensive treatment. Dental Problems are expensive disease treatment in Indonesia. Whereas, almost 135 million people in Indonesia are low-middle income people. So that's way, most of the Indonesian people treat their dental problems to illegal dental practitioners. Illegal dental practitioners are people who give dental treatment without the proper licenses and formal education. So, patients cant get the high standard treatment quality and many of them being the victims. In the other side, actually, talking about the dental treatment we should take into account dental students (co-assistants). In 5th and 6th year, they are required to do mandatory treatments to obtain the dentist title. By caring our dental problem to dental students, patients could get an affordable treatment cost, up to 80% cheaper than dentists, and high standard treatment quality because they are supervised directly by professional dentists. And this is a legal treatment because this is part of the educational system. However, 50% of dental students take the longer time to obtain the dentist title because they have some problems to find right cases patients, the right schedule, besides the financial problem. So, we have two big problems here that are the lack of affordable dental treatment for low-middle income people and dental student needs patients to obtain the dentist title. COASS is the first platform in Indonesia that used to help dental students (co-assistants) to get patients with the right cases, right schedule, and help to find funding. COASS is the first win-win solution and innovation in Indonesia that connect them. So, by using COASS, dental students are easier to find patients and patients can get free treatment
Read MoreImpact of your enterprise on sustainable development
In Indonesia, Based on Health Ministry Research in 2007, 7 of 10 of Indonesian people have dental problems. The DMF-T (Decay, Missing, Filled Teeth) Index is 4.6. It means that every Indonesian people have 4 until 5 damage teeth. Dental problem is often ignored by people, even though this problem strongly related to the systemic disease such as heart disease, mouth cancer, diabetes, strokes, lung conditions, and many others. By checking our dental health, we can prevent many diseases such as HIV because HIV sign and symptom is shown through the mouth. In Indonesia, there are 8000 dental students. Every dental student should treat minimum 136 patients. So COASS can help 1,088,000 people every period. We also hope people are conscious and able to get the dental treatment by maximizing the existence of dental student with connecting dental student and patients, make Dental Health Education (DHE), and help to find funding. Our goal is supporting the 3rd of SDGs that is Good Health and Well Being. We believe that dental problem can be avoided through prevention, treatment, and education. By checking dental condition we also can prevent many diseases because many of them are showing sign and symptom in oral. Now, we have almost 171 dental students, more than 1700 patients, and almost 4 thousand cases in 9 cities. This is a good step because Indonesia has 32 faculties of dentistry. So imagine how many people we can help with this project. COASS got several achievements such as Best Social Startup Ideas and 4th Winner of Asia Social Innovation Awards 2016, 1st Winner of ESPRIEX BMC ASEAN 2017 and being a representative of ASEAN in IBMC 2017 in Silicon Valley. And we got Top 40 Lean Start-up from 27 countries, and almost 6000 teams in International Business Model Competition 2017.
Read MoreSustainability and future plans
Our revenue streams are membership, crowdfunding, and advertisement. For membership, patients and dental student pay the membership fee. For the patient, the fee is just for treatment but more affordable than usual. If they just want to consultation, it is free. For crowdfunding, from each community development, we do a screening. And we do calculation the total treatment fee. Finally, we make a campaign to help the treatment fee so it will be affordable. For advertisement, in our platform, we also show the dental tools or dental health products which are cooperated with us. You can imagine if all dental students in Indonesia which reach a number of 8000. With the minimum cases have to be treated by them are 136 cases. We can help more than 1 million people in every year. This is our business model in our initial stage. In the future, we want to optimize CSR & enterprises as our benefactor and applying cost replacement fee. Now, we have cooperated with Rumah Zakat. We got 3 ambulances as the transportation for patients. This platform has strong sustainability because dental students will exist every 4 months. Beside supporting SDGs, our future targets are also hoping to cooperate with Government to support the goals of BPJS/health insurance and expand to all over universities in Indonesia. We hope this project can be applied to another developing country that has the same problem with us. So, our goal is we can make a big community who care about dental health.
Read MoreYour profile as an entrepreneur
Arief Faqihudin: Founder & CEO of COASS. He is an engineering student in Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. He has a passion for business, technology, especially relation between medical and engineering. COASS is his 2nd innovation about medical and engineering. In 2014, he was built INOVIA, an audio and visual distraction tools that's used to overcome anxiety and fear in children while undergoing dental treatment. In COASS, he manages all from technology, business, and future development. He is a specialist of UI / UX Design in COASS. He has active 2 months in student study services and many organizations. He built COASS after he has lost his friend because of a toothache and he decided to solve this problem and want these problems never should happen to anyone ever again. Silva Eliana Aspriyanti: Founder & CBDO of COASS. She is dentistry student in Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. She was active for 5 years in community development and active in the national organization of dentistry, and she has many network and links over there. Due to her activities and her awareness, she really cares about the problem in her environment proved by her innovation called DENTALION, an innovation of diagnostic device for mouth screening that is portable. The next year she invents MEDIGLOWS, integration between LED light sources and an electronic system that can be attached to the end of the fingers of the hand and wrist that is flexible and portable. In addition, these products are also economical and easy to use by health workers during the examination both at the clinic and outside the clinic. Her projects got two gold medals in Scientific Research Student Week 2014 and 2015 in entrepreneurship sector. And now with Arief, COASS was founded because of her care about dental problems in Indonesia.
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Comments
Dear Resiliant Entrepreneur,
It's the end of the competition, I want to urge you to not leave this community without the contact (email especially) of as many other entrepreneurs on this platform. You never can tell what your further conversations may produce.
It's the power of networking and leverage I'm talking about...
Here's my email [email protected] looking forward to hearing from you.
Regards
Seth
Bye fellow entrepreneur:
As I say good buy, I must say it has been an astounding time reading so many great entries.
I went through the details of your idea and was indeed very impressed. Would you be kind enough to please explain to me as how you got this idea? Equally importantly, who were (are) the people who inspired you for you to come up with this idea.
Take care and all the very best!
Shuhra
Hello fellow passenger,
You might have heard the famous song "What I've done" by Linkin park. The lyrics have been beautifully carved by the late singer Chester Bennington. The song covers the ways in which our so called development has helped only a handful of the upper society members, whereas people are still living in poverty.
We have a great platform here which is urging super brains from around the world to come together and collaborate with their ideas and help make this world a better place to live in. You have been a part of this community and I congratulate you on your effort that you have put in.
Thanks once again and all the best for the future
Regards,
Team GreenSpace
Hello my fellow traveler, How are you feeling as our road ends temporarily?
I have just seen your entry and have been thoroughly impressed by it. Will you be willing to collaborate incase you want to set it up on ground?
I would like to be in touch with you,
Cheers from Kabul.
Shuhra
Comrades,
In this fight for a sustainable future, what we need is innovation; something which is not necessarily new, but which makes us look at things from a different angle.
I believe this is one of the major motives of this community which we are a part of. Taking one step together hand in hand towards our goal is the only way we can achieve it.
So I wish you the very best in this endeavour of yours and hope to see you together in the new tomorrow
Regards,
Team GreenSpace
Yes, it was a wonderful journey !
a. Reading them gives me good bumps. Will you be able to give me some more details about your proposal?
b. Also, please go through my IDEA called EDU-CELL and if you like it, please vote.
c. This is what I could think when I saw your proposal. Truly inspirational and positive initiative from your side that is sending ripples amongst my friends and relatives. If you think it will be applicable in Afghanistan, please send me the details.
Thank You !
Truly, Shuhra K, Afghanistan
I SEND MY THANK YOU FROM KABUL!
WHAT A JOURNEY AND WHAT A PROPOSALTHE SIMPLICITY OF YOUR IDEA WAS JUST TOO GOOD. WHAT ABOUT YOU? HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO SEE MY PROPOSAL? IT IS CALLED EDU-CELL TO HELP THE SCHOOL EDUCATION IN AFGHANISTAN. INTERESTED? CLICK AND DOUBLE CLICK!!
SIGNIING OFF, SHUHRA
Dear Leader,
We are coming to the end of this awesome competition and I appreciate your efforts, drive and support on my idea, 'AfricEnergy'.
No matter how the result comes out, we should always be focused on implementing our unique ideas and projects for the improvement of the World.
Thank you for your contributions, advice and encouragement so far. I hope to connect with you via [email protected]
Best of Luck!
Thank You my dear!
Three thoughts come to my mind as we end:
(a) Will we be in touch?
(b) It is a small and beautiful world
(c) All the best
Bye for now!
S. Koofi, Kabul
THANK YOU!
THANK YOU FOR READING MY PROPOSAL. I HAVE READ AND EVALUATED YOUR INITIATIVE AND I CANNOT BUT HELP GIVING IT MY HIGHEST COMPLIMENTS. HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO THINK OF SUCH A WONDERFUL IDEA, I WONDER?
ONCE GAIN A BIG THANK YOU FROM MY SIDE.
SK
Hello,
This entrepreneurship-campus platform has been amazing it has enabled us to see all the enthusiasts and to share our passion and experiences to learn from each other. Good luck with your work and wishing you all the success on your journey. Please try to keep in touch; this is important to me as I find this inspirational.
I appreciate all your votes, valuable feedback, advice, and suggestions. For me it has helped me to improve my ideas and also helps me to win and learn from the ideas that you have given me.
Best of Luck! And keep it up
Kindest regards
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Greetings from Afghanistan!
Awesone. Fantastic. Relevant. These are the three words that came to my mind when I read your proposal. Congratulations. If you get a moment, would you be kind enough to read my proposal (IDEAS) called EDU-CELL from Afghanistan? And if you do manage to read it, would you be kind enough to vote if you like the IDEA? And if I am not asking too much, please forward the link to your friends and family.
Thanks in anticipation!
Shuhra K
vHello fellow traveler!
I must say that I found your idea truly inspiring. I would like to know more about it? Do you think you can give me more details about your proposal so I can understand it more and give ffedbakc as well as evaluate if it can be done in my country?
I would also like to request you to please my IDEA called EDU-CELL. DO you think it is relevant in your country. If yes, let me know. I can even help in establishing it in your place during the course of this year!
Have a great day
SHUHRA
Hello my friend,
May I entreat you to read my entry EDU CELL. I have read your and must say it is fantastic. How did you come up with the idea, I wonder? Who helped you?
Bye for now,
Shuhra.
What a proposal! I am truly amazed.
So many good thoughts including yours. Reading them gives me good bumps. Will you be able to give me some more details about your proposal? And on a different note, wont it be great if you have a quick glance at my IDEA called EDU CELL.
Take care!
Shuhra (Kabul)
Also,
Remember it's not over until it's over.
It may be just a few days to the end of the competition but it's not the end of your dreams
There's still a lot you can achieve.
Stay focused.
Regards
Dear Fellow participant,
You have done well thus far. Only few people will venture relentlessly into the things in which their instincts proposes because sometimes the goal appears too crazy to achieve, so they just retreat.
Actually, someone has said that "The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
You may have seen this before but I want to remind you that it's true, only those who are "crazy enough" eventually get results.
Congratulations for been "crazy enough" (seeing beyond normal and following your dreams despite the odds)...
Best wishes,
Seth
Dear Entrepreneurship campus member;
Thank you for being here all this while. I appreciate all your effort and appreciation, suggestion, question on my project. I learned a lot from you guys. Really I have no word to describe Entrepreneurship campus members.
Now we are reaching the end of the competition. I want to thank everyone who have been voting and commenting on my project and interest in helping to support CCT--Cities Controlling and Reporting Tool.
I have gone through all your ideas and projects, I have learnt a lot. i will read its again once and I will comment professionally.
Really I am glad that you are doing such great works and for you Enterpreunerial sprit. I fully support your efforts.
Good luck! THANK YOU all once again!
Hello everyone,
Now we are reaching the end of the competition. I want to thank everyone who have been voting and commenting on my ideas and interest in helping support GU.
As all of you said, a visual universal language is needed for this continuously developing society. I am trying my best to launch my Gadaa Universe with the help of you and your constructive comments. We will do whatever it takes to exceed your expectations.
Best of Luck! And keep it up
Kind regards
Hi COASS Team,
I"m impressed with your project and i can foresee the impact it'll have on dental healthy. Do you mind sharing experience on how long it took you to develop a prototype and what was the estimated investment need?
Cheers!
Hello,
Being a part of India's well-known Entrepreneurship Cell of the most prestigious engineering college in India, I have interacted with many startup enthusiasts, have got to know how they think and what are some qualities that set them apart from the ones who are not able to see their idea through. Reading through your idea, I have realised that your idea has that spark which can help it become a successful venture. Coupled with its aim to help the society achieve its goals sustainably, your idea can be something quite helpful for the same.
But before it's implementation, you need to do a "premortem" check on how it can fail. This would prepare you for any uncalled-for circumstances and help you prepare for them accordingly.
Lastly, I would like you to have a look at our idea, GreenSpace, and share your views about the same.
Regards,
Team GreenSpace.
Greetings Dear Colleague ,
Thank you for being a part of that great event , it was a great nice Journey , but the best thing of it is meeting good friends like you , I hope every one of you achieve his dreams.
thanks again & best wishes for you all.
your brother Ahmed
Hello My Friend!
Thank you for being here all this while. Your dreams are valid and your project is very viable. Keep thriving and best will keep coming your way.
Best of Luck.
Hello dear members of the entrepreneurship community,
I hope you will join us too and learn the GU universal communication system and the Gadaa system practices when the platform and the system implementations are complete and fully ready for use. This work is still under development. I will let you know once it is finished.
Please keep your constructive comments. Your feedback is important! Many thanks to all contributors!
Thank you for supporting GU project. We will notify you as soon as the platform is live.
Best of Luck!
Hello,
To all the people who are asking how to join once the GU platform goes live, all you need to do is to create a free account. Please keep an eye out on the website and my social media pages at: http://gadaauniverse.com/
Kind regards
Dear Champion,
It takes just one idea/project to transform the world. As you keep working hard towards your dreams and to add your quota in the improvement of the world, I wish you the best of luck.
Remain Lifted!
Hello Great Mind!
Thank you for your support to AfricEnergy so far. I appreciate your kind words, positive remarks and contribution on my idea. As you continue to progress in your quest for the improvement of the World, I wish you success and breakthrough.
Best of luck!
Hello Great Mind!
Thank you for your support to AfricEnergy so far. I appreciate your kind words, positive remarks and contribution on my idea. As you continue to progress in your quest for the improvement of the World, I wish you success and breakthrough.
Best of luck!
Dear COASS
That problem you're targeting is a Worldwide Challenge so keep expanding it regardless of how the speed ,it will spread all over the World.Hello Campus members
Snail moves very slow but leaves some Marks for every one to see, so we all know that snails do move, this is kind of encouragement yet the fact that regardless of your speed, keep moving, they will all say he/she was here even after several generations to come. I havedecided to get out of fear of what others do fail,my destine is never tied to anybody failed nor to my past failure so I keep moving and I hope we are together in this journey.
Uledi Kimbavala.
Zero hunger is possible
Best of luck!
Hello,
The TRUTH is, your community will not just benefit from such an amazing initiative of yours but that you will forever be remembered for this great change and transformation you'll cause.
Keep up the spirit because it's adorable.
Your kind is scarce, so hard to find around, you're indeed a great leader!
Wish you all the best world changer.
Kindest regards
Thomas Seth
CISTEM
Hello Sebastian River,
Thank you very much for your comment and support. We are still growing and continue my project. We hope this project will be more useful for others.
Best Regards,
COASS
Dear community member,
As the competition deadline is approaching near, we would like some feedback regarding our idea, some ways by which we can tweak it and make it a little better and ready for future execution.
(follow this link https://www.entrepreneurship-campus.org/ideas/12/5961/comments)
Please vote and support our idea.
Thank you in advance.
Team GreenSpace
Hi,
After going through your project, I firmly believe that with good management and excellent execution, this project will help the society grow in a sustainable manner. This would have various positive effects on the environment and also the society in general.
I wish you the best for the same.
I would really appreciate if you could go through my idea as well(follow this link https://www.entrepreneurship-campus.org Our idea deals with covering an otherwise unused rooftop of a building with green plants and using that space for a multitude of activities.
Thank you
Team GreenSpace
Hi,
Thank you if you have already commented my idea Path To Knowledge. If not, I invite you kindly to do it at: https://www.entrepreneurship-campus.org/ideas/12/5633/ I would really appreciate your opinion.
Best regards,
Andrei
An Awesome Day to You, Dear Campus Colleague,
Cheeking through your Project and seeing it progress in this competition leaves me motivated and inspired that with us, our planet will become better and flourish in goodness and development desired by every human being with dreams and aspirations. To keep you moving and staying on in face of challenges as growing Entrepreneurs, it is my pleasure to share this link with you, "7 MOVIES Every Entrepreneur Should Watch", copy and paste this link to view; youtube.com/watch?v=s3x-_yRRUrk
All the best to you in you Idea!
Cheers
Anita Mbah.
Hello,
Your project is awesome! I love the motivation and the passion with which you're moving and just want to encourage you to continue. All we need is just a little more push to make our dreams come true!
Be encouraged and do more!
I believe that this will turn out to be an awesome innovation that will transform the Health sector of your country. I support your project and wish you the best.
I look forward to support and comment on my idea "Eradicating Poverty and Unemployment via Teens Empowerment."
Thanks a lot,
Seth
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Best of Luck!
Greetings Entrepreneurial Colleague
We are few steps to the announcement day. I want to use this medium to appreciate your effort, progress so far and support to my idea. Never relent, keep pushing and I wish you success, all the way.
You may enjoy this article on "How to Segment a Market" for your project/business: http://www.wikihow.com/Segment-a-Market
Best of Luck!
Hi COASS team,
Dental Problems are expensive disease to treat.COASS team is doing good job by taking up this project.
This project addresses a critical need of people of Indonesia.This is a very impressive project and it will surely be beneficial for al.It looks promising.Congratulations for all your efforts and for your project.
Greetings.
Thank you Great Mind
Having you around is very encouraging and wonderful. I wish you success on your journey and you should always expect the best coming your way.
You may like to see my idea, AfricEnergy, for comments and support.
Cheers.
Hello,
I invite you kindly to please read and give some suggestions or comment my idea GadaaUniverse[GU]-Gadaa Universal Communication System and GU-Fair.
Thanks in advance for your votes and comment. I really appreciate your contribution and would be glad to hear your advice and opinion.
Good luck with your project!
Kind regards,
Firanbek Robele
Hello
Dental problems have been challenge not only in Indonesia, your project is real life saving as it touch both healthy care and social well being. I would suggest more effort to be on education on how to properly protect your teeth. Your project for sure should be supported.
Hii,
your project is a very impressive and it will surely be beneficial for all the people..
It looks promising.
Congratulations for all your efforts that you have put into your project.
Good luck
Regards
Hii,
your project is a very impressive and it will surely be beneficial for all the people..
It looks promising.
Congratulations for all your efforts that you have put into your project.
Good luck
Regards
Hello,
I invite you kindly to comment my idea Path To Knowledge. I would be glad to hear your advice. I have written this message after I commented almost all ideas and projects and probably yours too. I am deeply sorry if this message bothered you, but everyone on this platform wants to go to the finals with his/her idea and makes all it is possible to get there. Maybe not all the actions are fair. Some participants copy the same meaningless message and paste it to all ideas. I just do marketing. Again, I am sorry if this message disturbed you.
Kindest regards,
Andrei
Hello Arief!
Your project is quite interesting and impressive, as it tends to promote healthy life for all.
Congratulations for your efforts!
I wish you success and you can stop by on my idea to add your contribution.
Best of luck!
Great Mind Arief ! This is one of the unique project i ever come across on this platform. Tooth pain is better imagine than to happen to someone. Indonesia will be greatful for this invention most especially the Children. Keep it up and sky will be the starting point for COASS. I am in full support for this project and wishing you the very best.
From your brother: Adedokun Ayobami (Nigeria)
This is a very good project and I congratulate this team for what are they doing. You have identified the problem and in the second moment you have this brilliant idea. Good job! Help the people who need and I am sure they will be grateful.
Regards,
Andrei
Great Project. I want to invite you to vote for my project and comment if you want it.
Thanks and good luck
https://www.entrepreneurship-campus.org/ideas/14/7257/
Hello Betty King,
Thank you very much for your comment and support. We are still growing and continue my project. We hope this project will be more useful for others. Our target is we want to make a big community who cares about dental health. So, people can get affordable dental treatment and aware about their dental health.
Best Regards,
COASS
This is such a great idea that kills many birds with one stone.
Congratulations on your achievements thus far and wishing you the best as you continue with implementation.
Perhaps you can think of ways to plug in to existing corporate dental campaign like Colgate smile- I believe this would help you secure more partners.
Great Job!
Hi, Shuhra/Koofi
For the initial stage, we hope that these problems will be solved by our platform. Because these problems already for a long time have not been resolved. We can solve these problems are our 'profit' for our initial stage. So, in the initial stage, we focus on social to engage the users. However, because this is a social entrepreneurship, we must do our business. In the next stage, we have three revenue streams that are membership, crowdfunding, and advertisement. We can get our money profit in membership and advertisement.
Thank you
Hello,
Indeed your idea is great and all the best for your idea and congratulations for your efforts which you have put into it and it's a very beneficial idea for the people. Just a question that what profit you will be getting from it.
Best wishes
Hi, Shuhra/Koofi
Yes, thank you for your comment. This project has to get support from Government. Our goal is to make a big community who cares about dental health, especially in our country, Indonesia.
Because we believe by caring our dental health can save our life :)
Best Regards,
COASS
Hi Katlego Sito,
Yes, this project is mostly based on helping others than a lot of focus based on revenues. However, we also want to educate the people about dental health, so they can aware with their dental. So, we have changed the revenues. In the future, we want to optimize NGO and CSR as funding, because they are our key partner of crowdfunding (cost replacement contribution)
Thank you
Dental hygiene is big problem in developing nation. You have a good project. Government has to participate in awareness programs to solve dental problems.
Good luck
Regards
I understand that this project is mostly based on helping others than a lot of focus based on revenues.I would really like to wish u luck.have a look at my idea of SMS system maybe u might find it useful and use it there to inform ur intended market.best wishes
Hi Kundoh,
Thank you for your advice. Yes, we still re-think our revenue streams now. We want to change the commission fee with a subscription fee. So dental student pay some fees and they can get the patients. For crowdfunding system, we take 5%. But this is our initial stage. In the future, we want to change to cost replacement from CSR and NGO. We want to cooperate with them as our funding. Or do you have any advice for our revenue stream?
Thank you
COASS is a brilliant project that will curb the dental health challenges faced by Indonesia. Being a win-win solution I think you should re-think on your revenue streams.
Keep in touch.
Hi Hassen Aouali,
It's very nice question. Thank you very much.
First, for people who are not user-friendly with technology especially from low-middle income people, we will integrate our platform to clinic and hospital. So that's why we develop our product to web apps. It will be easier to integrate with the dental clinic, so they can register themselves for the clinic, and the data will be delivered to us.
The different thing between the dentist and the dental student who are doing a mandatory service to obtain the dentist title (or in Indonesia, we called "Co-assistant") is about the fee of their services. If the dental student, they are paid as a replacement of the cost of material and equipment, the service is free because they are still in the educational stage. Different from the dentist, they are paid as a replacement of the material, equipment and also their service. So, the cost of the dentist is higher than dental students. However, the treatment quality of dental students is a high standard, because they are supervised by the professional dentist, and if they do something wrong, they must repeat again and will affect to their time to obtain the dentist title.
Is it clear? Or maybe any other question?
Thank you
Hello,
Your project is an awesome idea!
However I have a question how you plan to convince people to use your app while there are lot of people who are not user-friendly with technology . What's your plan for integrating them into this platform ?
Also when you are launching this project don't think just about the idea and how much cool it is , you should think and ask yourself ; the newly graduated student would love to use your app but why Dentist would do?
When you find the good answer for that , you will be ready to rock!
Good Luck :)
Hello Abdisa Bencha Jara,
Thank you very much for your comment and support. We are still growing and continue my project. We hope this project will be more useful for others. Our target is we want to make a big community who cares about dental health. So, people can get affordable dental treatment and aware about their dental health.
Best Regards,
COASS
Hi Kevin Morales,
Yes, thank you very much. Our goal is we want to make a big community who cares about dental health. So, people can be able to get dental treatment and aware about dental health. Because dental health is systemic disease and can stimulate another disease such as heart disease, mouth cancer, diabetes, stroke and many others. Many cases showed that dental problems can make someone die. So by caring our dental health, can save our lives.
Thank you.
Dear COASS;
I am glad that you are doing such great works. I fully support your efforts. Hopefully you can maintain and continue your project to be sustainable around the area.
Please look at https://www.entrepreneurship-campus.org/ideas/14/6604/ on the project I am launching. I will be happy to learn from your feedback in comments and voting.
Good luck!
Hi again COASS
Thank you very much for your answer, I congratulate you and you have reason about that the students of dentistry have to communicate to the patients, it is an odyssey to do that I have seen it, and they lose the subject by not fulfilling requirements. Keep going
Hi Kevin Morales,
Thank you very much for your comment. This is the first platform in Indonesia to help the dental student get the patients with the specific cases, schedule and help to find funding. And I think, now, there is not the similar platform or competitor in other countries, because of some reasons. First, in other countries, especially in the developed countries, the educational system of dentistry is different with Indonesia. In Indonesia, the dental student must find their patients by themselves one by one. In the developing countries, the educational system of dentistry to obtain the dentist title maybe same with Indonesia. Second is the presence of illegal dental practitioners. There are still a lot of Illegal dental practitioners in the developing countries. So, if two reasons or maybe one of this reason is present in other countries, we can expand our platform. Furthermore, many of platform today is about connecting patient with the doctor or dentist, not the dental student.
Best regards,
COASS
Dear COASS
Hi,
I like your project excellent idea, a good utility for students and patients
I have a question
Is there something similar in other countries?
Best Regards
Hi Simbarashe,
Thank you very much for your respond. Yes, our target makes a big community who cares about dental health in Indonesia. By using our platform, we can help more than 1 million people of Indonesia. So, we hope the level of dental health in Indonesia will increase.
COASS Team.
These is a commendable and formidable project an interesting field of dentistry less explored at social level contribution , you are really making a great impact.
Hi COASS,
I'm from Singapore, so I don't think there are many issues with dental health! (But I don't know anything about dental health so I might be wrong?) Sorry I can't be of more help!
Cheers
Yoke
Hi COASS,
I'm from Singapore, so I don't think there are many issues with dental health! (But I don't know anything about dental health so I might be wrong?) Sorry I can't be of more help!
Cheers
Yoke
Hi, Yoke!
It's very great! Where do you come from? How about your country, is there any problems which are same with us? I hope we can meet or discuss dental health especially in your country.
Best Regards,
COASS
Hi COASS Team,
My graduation was last year, in April 2016. Our team started to work on our project from end of 2015. So it has been more than one year :)
Hope your idea will continue to improve and spread!
Cheers
Yoke
Hi Yoke,
Wow, It's very nice!
When were you graduated from ITB, Bandung? So, your project start while you're studying in ITB or after that?
Yes, thank you very much. Because this is a win-win solution I think. So, we develop it. And these problems is unique because only felt in developing country.
Hi COASS Team,
I graduated from ITB, Bandung, last year in environmental engineering. So I'm very interested in the projects in Indonesia :)
All the best! It seems like you are matching demand and supply well.
Cheers
Yoke
Hi Yoke,
Thank you very much. Now, we're still doing our business based on our plan target for this year. Yes, we are from UGM, Yogyakarta. Very nice to meet you. What university do you study in Singapore?
Actually, in Yogyakarta there are two universities which have Dentistry, that is Universitas Gadjah Mada and Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta. Now, we still focusing this business in Yogyakarta. But, now we have some of our users are the dental student who comes from other universities outside of Yogyakarta.
And our target, we want to expand to all over universities in Indonesia.
COASS Team
Hi COASS team,
Innovative idea! May I ask about your progress so far? I understand that you are students at UGM. Is your platform just being used in UGM/Yogyakarta, or have you expanded to other locations as well?
Cheers
Yoke
Thank you very much, Dr. Arief Faqihudin
I hope we could meet to ,you are welcome to Egypt any time , that will be honor for me to be my guest , I have a friend works as a dentist you can talk with him , if you would like to know anything about dental health in Egypt , you are welcome any time
Thank you, Mr. Ahmed El-Ghamry
I think your projects are also so great. Let's change the world by giving our contributions. I hope we can meet or discuss dental health especially in your country.
Good luck!
Dear Mr Arief Faqihudin
you are totally right , This is great noble goal, to save a life is like saving the whole world, that is very good for society because The human resource is the main element in the production wheel.
good luck )
Hello, Mr. Ahmed El-Ghamry.
Thank you very much for your comment. Our goal is to make a big community who cares about dental health, especially in our country, Indonesia.
Because we believe by caring our dental health can save our life :)
Greetings MR: Arief Faqihudin,
This is a very brilliant project, to make benefits for both of patients & students , the patient get cure with low price & good quality & the student get experience in his future job & be qualified
best wishes :)
It's interesting to see a project that addresses such a critical need that is quite frankly taken for granted in the United States. The impacts that dental hygiene has on other areas of the body is highly underrated. Have you come across any research etc. that talks about this problem among the population you are serving?