Pain Patient Assist

I am the founder of an early stage organisation that will break the barriers for patients in modern day dental care. My organisation helps patients and their guardians understand the importance of thorough and complete dental and related examinations with a multidisciplinary approach. 

Pain Patient Assist (PPA) will initially be an online portal that patients can get guidance and advice to help identify who they need to see, what questions they need to ask and how they co-ordinate it all. 

After initial launch, funding allocated to PPA will work on AI technology programmed by relevant doctors and therapists to be available any time of the day and night to help with many questions and help them find the right practitioners and what questions they really need to ask and can be linked with data previously collected. 

Funding will help with providing expert advise panel for the portal and AI code, keeping material up to date, and provide a portal for patients with their Doctors and Therapists for a true multidisciplinary treatment plan. 

Many patients of doctors and related therapists/specialists work in silos usually making an assessment and treatment only in their area of expertise often without considering the bigger picture. 

My name is Fiona. I was born in 1980 with a condition that I only grew 12 natural teeth. My parents could not afford complex dental treatment and I was treated in a public dental clinic. 

For a period spanning 22 years, there was a major lack of planning and collaboration throughout including misdiagnosis and further medical problems not treated with a "true" multidisciplinary approach. 

As a teenager I could have had all of my dental problems resolved and lived a pain free existence, instead I have lived in pain all of my life. 

For example: I was tongue tied all my life, that caused my maxillary arch to be under developed. As a result my airway was compromised, nose blocked and breathed through my mouth my whole life until present time. My head was always too far forward constantly straining my neck. 

My organisation seeks to change how patients deal with the medical system, empowering them to understand impacts of treatment and asking the right questions to the right practitioners. My organisation is here to support, not replace medical advice, and most importantly avoiding unnecessary ongoing medical treatment and pain/dysfunction conditions because of lack of planning and co-ordination. 

Many children have dental problems from a young age. Many children have nutritional and developmental deficiencies that can be addressed and fixed before they have fully developed as an adult. 

When a child has problems with their teeth they often will see a general dentist or orthodontist.

The best opportunity to fix dental & not always obvious related problems is in pre-adult development. Children are very resilient and have a proper chance in life to reach their full potential.  

My organisation ethos is to 

1. Prevent children from experiencing unnecessary and avoidable dental related problems. 

2. Help troubleshoot and support pain patients already in pain. 

We will do this by: 

1. Providing accessible resources on a multidisciplinary approach to help formulate the right questions and see the right doctors and therapists. 

2. Provide a database to connect and have real time data with all persons involved with treatment to ensure the best outcome for the patient. 

3. AI support to help FAQ for patients programmed responses by qualified professionals. 

Many times these conditions are diagnosed at a chronic stage in adult years and the root cause is rarely identified causing a life long battle with chronic conditions. 

The medical system in most countries is disease management rather than health. 

When you first hear "dental" issues majority of people will think of your teeth, however this is only one part of the impact dental problems will have on your overall health. 

I have noticed from many hours over many years of observation through many different ways that a persons teeth and jaw structure represents alot about them. 

This includes their confidence, physical appearance, their nutrition as their ability to chew and digest food properly, their breathing and C02 levels, blood and lymphatic circulation, sleep and recovery, their posture and most importantly the opportunities they will have in their life and what health ailments that they will be subject to when these things are overlooked. 

I have suffered for many years and been restricted unnecessarily because I trusted doctors solely for my health. YOU are in charge of your health and it can be hard when you do not know what to do or what to ask. 

My organisation will change that to empower patients and to put doctors who work in silos on notice to be accountable to their patients. 

PPA is in very early stages and I as the founder am the only one in my organisation currently however I have spoken to four of my Doctors so far to ask them to be involved when I have funding available

PPA has an instagram page and a website page and I am 23,000 words in a PPA guide book, drawing on my personal experiences inside and supporting some of the PPA goals. This is me on the cover. 

PPA is a resource that many people need for themselves, their child or someone they know. Most people who have any illness will have problems in their mouth or their gut. 

Most of these people are unlikely to find the "root" cause of their pain or illness and will live their life disadvantaged in many ways. 

Pain Patients like me then develop anxiety and chronic fatigue as they are never rested and then their diet is compromised because they have no energy and looking for sugar to stay awake. 

Online resource and book content are my current projects to finish and once funding can be obtained, then backend portal will be next and AI content planning.