This Is Dr. Steve Duffin Wins The Maiden Big Regard Challenge For His Uncomplicated Device ‘Nodk’ Which Eliminates Molar Decay
Winners of the First Big Idea Canvas Challenge were announced yesterday amongst outset prize awarded to NoDK (pronounced No Decay), a simple device to eliminate molar decay. Tooth decay, or caries, is a leading wellness concern throughout the world amongst millions of children together with adults having piddling or no access to dental care. NoDK is a pen-like device that tin easily hold upwards dispensed inwards a cavity, stopping hurting together with bacterial decay amongst over 95% effectiveness.
doctor Steve Duffin is a dentist together with a microbiologist who has devoted his career to working inwards world wellness settings. For years, doctor Duffin has been researching methods to halt molar decay using a device that applies a medicine rather than shots together with fillings. doctor Duffin has straight off achieved a major breakthrough, together with has patented applied scientific discipline that is based on the application of silvery nitrate, used over ane hundred years ago, combined amongst a modern fluoride varnish. Together when applied inwards a specific manner, molar decay is arrested together with novel decay greatly diminished.
With the NoDK system, in that location is no postulate for shots or drills. This simple together with painfree organization removes the fearfulness that patients experience when going to come across the dentist.
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Millions of children acquire to schoolhouse each 24-hour interval amongst molar pain. Untreated caries is the most prevalent malady of humans globally," said doctor Duffin. He has invented a simple, prophylactic together with effective method to process people exterior of a dental office, fifty-fifty without electricity. Working amongst his son, Marcus, doctor Duffin designed a medical device to facilitate this procedure anywhere on earth.
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The device is named NoDK, together with proof of concept airplane pilot programs are beingness conducted inwards Republic of Ecuador together with Republic of Ghana amongst remarkable results. "The NoDK thought is a pregnant breakthrough that addresses the global epidemic of dental disease," said Paul Ahlstrom, Founder of the Big Idea Challenge. He added, "We are delighted that the Big Idea Challenge has been able to render a spotlight to this of import breakthrough." doctor Duffin noted, "We promise rattling shortly the NoDK volition hold upwards globally available, together with nosotros hold off forrad to checking the caries occupation off the listing of global epidemics."
Second Prize goes to Anasofia Monteblano for her online pedagogy platform ‘CodeKnack’. She is passionate nearly pedagogy together with preparing the children to hold upwards creators of technology, non merely consumers. Anasofia is planning to laid an online pedagogy platform ‘CodeKnack’ that teaches coding together with reckoner scientific discipline to uncomplicated schoolhouse children. The platform volition role artificial tidings to cater to each child's interests together with machine learning together with oculus tracking to proceed students engaged. She has over twenty years of successful sales experience, selling technical solution for such firms every bit Oracle, NetIQ, Web Trends, together with Kyocera. She was born inwards Lima, Republic of Peru together with moved to the U.S.A. when she was 8 years old. She attended Lewis together with Clark College, receiving a Bachelors Degree inwards Business Administration. She participated inwards an Executive Program on exponential technologies at Singularity University inwards Silicon Valley inwards 2015.
Third prize winner is Mr. Jason Smith for his large idea, IntelAgent, is a crowdsourcing software platform designed to enable businesses to laid clean together with enrich information at speeds together with character that competitor existing solutions at a to a greater extent than affordable price. Jason has over fifteen years of experience inwards marketplace inquiry together with information analytics.
He's currently Senior Manager of Customer Insights & Analytics amongst hard disk drive Supply Facilities Maintenance, a leading nationwide supplier of maintenance, repair, together with operations products. At hard disk drive Supply, Jason is responsible for translating analytical insights into occupation organization actions, representing the client viewpoint inwards low-cal of proposed occupation organization decisions, together with mensuration the success of fellowship marketing campaigns together with website enhancements. He earned his bachelor's flat inwards Psychology amongst Honors from San Francisco State University together with also achieved the 2011 President's Excellence Award together with 2012 Bullet Train Award Runner Up.
The winners were announced yesterday at the Pacific Alliance Venture Capital Conference inwards Lima, Republic of Peru to a packed house. The Canvas, straight off available online (www.bigideacanvas.com), has had over 5,000 downloads together with is gratis to all those that desire to access it. (Source: Big Idea Canvas)