Olena Polikarchyk

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Hryhorivna and the family name is Polikarchyk.
Olena Polikarchyk
Олена Григорівна Полікарчик
Born (1980-03-27) March 27, 1980
Lviv, Ukraine
Citizenship Ukraine
Alma materLviv Polytechnic National University, Classic Private University
Occupationsbusinesswoman, philantropist
Known forfounding the Dental Help UA

Olena Hryhorivna Polikarchyk (Ukrainian: Олена Григорівна Полікарчик; born March 27, 1980, in Lviv) is a Ukrainian entrepreneur, social activist, and volunteer. Founder and CEO of White Dental Group, founder of the Dental Help UA charitable foundation[1][2].

Biography

She graduated from Lviv Polytechnic National University with a degree in “Organizational Management” and from Classic Private University with a degree in “Management” [3]. She also studied in the “Business and Society” program at the Aspen Institute Kyiv (2020) and in the Advisory Board program of the Swedish-Ukrainian project Develop Your Business (DYB), founded by IFL Entrepreneur with support from the Sida agency (2023–2024).

From 2004 to 2019, she was a co-owner and director of InSpe, a distributor of dental equipment. In 2019, she founded White Dental Group, a distributor of premium dental products. Every year, White Dental Group organizes over 70 educational events for dental professionals. Olena Polikarchik is also a co-owner of the Villa Louisa network of dental clinics in Lviv and Kyiv[2].

Philanthropy

In 2022, she founded the Dental Help UA charitable foundation, which brings together volunteer dentists to provide free treatment to veterans, including full-mouth implant procedures[4]. As part of the “Give a Smile Back to a Hero” project, approximately 1 million UAH was raised for the treatment of military personnel[5].

In collaboration with over 330 dental clinics and 13 dental laboratories across Ukraine, as of December 2025, over the course of three years of the Dental Help UA Foundation’s work within the “Give a Smile Back to a Hero” project, free dental care was provided to over 2,200 veterans. The total value of the medical services provided exceeded 460 million UAH in equivalent value[6][7]

In 2024, the Dental Help UA Foundation received the Ukrainian CX Excellence Award in the category “Best Project in Social Responsibility”[8].

At the end of 2025, the foundation announced the launch of the “Mission: Full Recovery” project, aimed at comprehensive dental rehabilitation for veterans with complex clinical cases[7][9].

Community Service

She is a member of the Ukrainian Section Leadership Team of the International Team for Implantology (ITI) — an international professional network uniting over 25,000 implantologists worldwide[10].

In March 2022, she secured the adoption by the French government of a special temporary mechanism that simplified the recognition of Ukrainian medical professionals’ diplomas and enabled them to practice their profession[11].

She is the initiator of professional events and forums for the dental community, including Impulse Online Perio, the Neo Event “Dentistry: The Difficult Choices of Today” — a congress for dentists, and the White Summer Forum. In 2024, the White Summer Forum attracted over 500 participants, and in 2025, over 800[12].

References

  1. ^ "Olena Polikarchik" (in Ukrainian). Forbes Ukraine. Retrieved 2025-12-23.
  2. ^ a b "Olena Polikarchik" (in Ukrainian). RBC-Ukraine. Retrieved 2025-12-23.
  3. ^ "Olena Polikarchik" (in Ukrainian). Ukranews. Retrieved 2025-12-23.
  4. ^ "Interview with Olena Polikarchik" (in Ukrainian). WOMO. Retrieved 2025-12-23.
  5. ^ "Dentists Raised One Million Hryvnias" (in Ukrainian). Skyscraper. Retrieved 2025-12-23.
  6. ^ Yevheniia Hlusha (2025-09-09). "The Dental Help UA Charitable Foundation has restored smiles to over 2,000 Ukrainian veterans free of charge: before-and-after photos" (in Ukrainian). LIGA.net. Retrieved 2025-12-24.
  7. ^ a b "Dental Help UA Foundation Launches Dental Rehabilitation Project for Veterans" (in Ukrainian). Delo.UA. 2025-12-05. Retrieved 2025-12-25.
  8. ^ Pavlo Tverdokhlib (2024-06-21). "Dental Help UA Receives UCXE" (in Ukrainian). Ukranews. Retrieved 2025-12-23.
  9. ^ "Mission: Full Restoration DENTAL HELP UA" (in Ukrainian). Dental Help UA. 2025-08-01. Retrieved 2025-12-23.
  10. ^ "Sections ITI, Ukraine". Retrieved 2026-03-19.
  11. ^ Anastasia Teplova (2022-03-25). "Ukrainian doctors allowed to work in France" (in Ukrainian). Mind.ua. Retrieved 2025-12-23.
  12. ^ Daria Berezhna (2025-07-09). "White Summer Forum in Lviv" (in Ukrainian). Focus. Retrieved 2025-12-23.
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