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- FDI 2010 - Salvador da Bahia Congress @ 16:36:52 12-11-2009
- Dear Colleague,
We are pleased to send you the latest advert for the FDI 2010 Congress that is to be held in the beautiful city of Salvador da Bahia in Brazil. From September 2-5 2010 Salvador will host all of the events involved in the FDI Annual World Dental Congress, including the World Dental Parliament, the Scientific Programme and our World Dental Exhibition. With over 200,000 dental professionals in Brazil alone, we look forward to a great congress both from the local perspective and the international level that you have come to expect from the FDI.
As someone who works in publications, it is with pleasure that we offer this information to you and your readers. Please contact us for more information:
congress@fdiworldental.org
You will receive a copy of the Preliminary Programme as it becomes available. Until then, please check out our website for the latest news available on the Congress including a "downloads" section where you can find the adverts, fillers and any other promotional items as they become available.
http://www.fdiworldental.org/microsites/Salvador/congress1.html
Don't forget that members of the press receive a complimentary registration to the congress upon presentation of their press card.
Please do not hesitate to contact us for any further questions about the Congress or any other FDI activity. Please note that our offices have moved (adress below) - please update our address in your lists.
H. Hélène Marot
Manager, Congress Exhibition
FDI World Dental Federation
Tour de Cointrin
Avenue Louis Casai 84
Case Postale 3
1216 Cointrin - Genève
Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 560 81 50
Fax: +41 22 560 81 40 - Sir John Tomes: Victorian Dental Pioneer - Special Exhibition @ 08:38:13 11-03-2009
- A special exhibition at the BDA Dental Museum at BDA headquarters in London will celebrate the remarkable life of Sir John Tomes (1815 - 1894). He influenced every sphere of Victorian dentistry and his legacy lives on today. He has been described as "a great original investigator, a great mechanical inventor, a great operator and a great leader of his profession". Amongst his many achievements he became the first dentist to be elected Fellow of the Royal Society for his dental research. He also developed and popularised the modern design of forceps, helped establish the first dental school in the UK and successfully campaigned for both the introduction of a professional qualification (LDS) and registration. He was elected the first president of the BDA in 1880. This exhibition will look at all aspects of his life and will display a wide range of items he either invented, commissioned or made himself. The exhibition has been funded by a grant from the Royal Society to mark the 350th anniversary of the Society's founding.
Open: During normal Museum opening hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1pm - 4pm; visitors very welcome at other times by appointment
Location: BDA headquarters, 64 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 8YS
Admission: Free
Family activity day: 18th February 2010
For more information telephone 020 7563 4549 or email museum@bda.org
Web: www.bda.org/museum - Strategic Health Authority Board in the UK unanimously approves water fluoridation @ 16:18:36 03-11-2009
- On 26 February 2009 the Board of South Central Strategic Health Authority voted unanimously in favour of a proposal to fluoridate water supplies. The SHA will now formally instruct Southern Water to fluoridate supplies for Southampton and parts of South West Hampshire, and will work with the water company towards a likely 2010 start date.
The SHA’s decision - the first under the provisions of the 2003 Water Act – followed a three month public consultation requested by Southampton City PCT. The 2003 Act gave strategic health authorities the power to instruct their local water companies to fluoridate the local supplies if, after widespread public consultation, they are satisfied that the health benefits outweighed all arguments against water fluoridation.
Following the Board’s decision, Regional Director of Public Health, Professor John Newton, said
“This consultation highlights the role of the NHS in addressing public health issues – it sometimes has to balance individual rights against the benefits to society as a whole. These are complex issues and I have no doubt that this debate will continue but for future generations of children in Southampton and parts of south west Hampshire they will benefit from this decision through improved dental health.
The consultation also highlights the challenge of discussing public health issues in the age of the internet where people need to try and evaluate the mass of information available on water fluoridation, some of which is unreliable and inaccurate. The results of the phone survey showed that a quarter of those people who opposed water fluoridation did so because of a fear that it would damage their health. Some of the support for the proposal is likely to have been eroded by misinformation.
As an epidemiologist I am convinced by the available evidence and by the experience of water fluoridation across the world over 60 years that there is no basis for these concerns.
Local people should be reassured that every major professional medical organisation including the British Dental Association, British Medical Association and World Health Organisation all fully endorse water fluoridation as a safe and effective way to improve dental health.”
The South Central decision was warmly welcomed by the National Alliance for Equity in Dental Health, a national alliance of over 60 health organisations. Speaking for the Alliance, Professor Alan Maryon-Davis, President of the Faculty of Public Health, commented:
“The Strategic Health Authority made absolutely the right decision. Four major systematic reviews of the worldwide evidence in the past nine years have confirmed that water fluoridation significantly reduces the amount of tooth decay suffered by children and adults, and is a major step forward for the public's health.”
Professor Mike Lennon, Chairman of the British Fluoridation Society, said the South Central SHA Board had rightly put the health needs of children first, and that tangible benefits to dental health would be seen within five years of the start of the new fluoridation scheme.
He added: “The courage and foresight displayed by the SHA board should pave the way for progress elsewhere in England – especially the North West and Yorkshire.”
Professor Newton’s Board paper on the scientific evidence is available online at: http://www.southcentral.nhs.uk/document_store/12351421641_ha09-020(i)_water_fluoridation_-_the_scientific_evidence.pdf
The South Central SHA ’s consultation documents can be found on its website at http://www.southcentral.nhs.uk/fluoridation/page.php?area_id=9996&id=2
The papers for the Board’s 26 February meeting are at http://www.southcentral.nhs.uk/page.php?id=364, and, the announcement of its decision can be found http://www.southcentral.nhs.uk/news.php?news_id=177 - EADPH - 14th Annual Meeting @ 14:04:00 02-27-2009
- The 14th Annual Meeting of the EADPH will be held in Tromsø, Norway from the 3rd to the 5th of September 2009 (Thursday to Saturday).
The conference venue will be the Medical School at the University of Tromsø. The Tromsø University is the northernmost university in the World, located in an Arctic city with 65,000 inhabitants. The Tromsø Dental School was founded in 2002 as part of the Medical Faculty.
The main theme of this meeting will be:
* Changing treatments needs – implications for oral health care and education.
* The European perspective.
For further details and abstracts submission, view the conference website .
The scientific program of this meeting will include lectures from outstanding invited speakers, special interest working groups, presentation of posters, and oral presentations.
Editorial correspondence and enquires:
Professor D O'Mullanec/o Ms Colette Spicer
The Editorial Assistant
Oral Health Research Services Centre
University Dental School & Hospital
Wilton, Cork
Ireland.
e-mail: cdh@ucc.ie
Publisher correspondence and enquires:
FDI World Dental Press Ltd5 Battery Green Road
Lowestoft , Suffolk
NR32 IDE
UK
Tel: +44 1502 511522
Fax: +44 1502 583152
e-mail: office@fdipress.org