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FDI Congress, 2nd – 5th of September 2009, Singapore

Report of the EDSA representatives

The FDI is a federation of National Dental Associations and its main roles are:

to bring together the world of dentistry, to represent the dental profession of

the world, to stimulate and facilitate the exchange of information across all

borders with the aim of optimal oral health for all people.

This year, the Annual Congress took place in Singapore - a city full of life, rich

in diversity and business, known as the crossroads of the world and is made

up of not just one island but a main island with 63 surrounding islets.

Overflowing with energy, this little island embodies the finest of both Eastern

and Western worlds.

The cooperation between FDI and EDSA started almost 2 years ago and representatives of both associations were sent to each

other meetings and discussions about the development of common projects were held, but during the meeting in Singapore

EDSA was officially declared a supporting member of FDI.

EDSA representatives participated day by day to different sessions, gathering information about the FDI forums and projects, as

follows:

Live. Learn. Laugh Symposium

This symposium discusses the unique global public-private

partnership between Unilever and the FDI, the World

Dental Federation, to improve oral health. Both

organisations commissioned an independent review of the

five years of the partnership and main findings were

presented. The symposium was open with an expert

exposition of public-private partnerships in health followed

by presentation of the key review results. An important

aspect of the review are case studies of selected country

projects that were followed by a presentation sharing the

breadth of activity in the partnership by National Dental

Associations and Unilever across more than 37 countries worldwide. We managed to establish a meeting with Rabee Abu-

Kishek, Unilever Director - Africa, Middle East,Turkey in order to develop the EDSA Voluntary Work Project together with them.

Some potential countries were discussed as Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt, Morocco and Cote D'ivoire, but more details are going to be

established soon.

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FDI – European Regional Organization GA

We participated at the meeting and we got the chance to observe

how their GA is running and also the current projects they are

working on at the moment. One good strategy for promoting the

association is visiting dental schools and countries that are not yet

members of FDI and trying to convince them to join the team. FDI –

ERO is organizing the “ European day of oral cancer” – this year was

held in Paris, 12th of June in cooperation with WHO. EDSA is closely

working with them and the FDI – ERO President Elect, Gerhard

Seeberger, is going to attend the 8th EDSA Congress from

Bucharest, Romania – coordinating one workshop and presenting a scientific lecture. The upcoming ERO-FDI Plenary Sessions

are in Spring 2010 in Armenia and in September 2010 in Brazil.

FDI General Assembly

On Friday, 4th of September, the FDI GA was held and

representatives for each association member from all the

83 countries attending the Congress gathered and the

meeting started. Reports of the Working Groups were

presented: Prevention, Education, Relation between

dentists and universities. An important topic was

discussed regarding the “ Profile of the dentist of the

future” and a survey is going to be distributed to all the

dentists and the results are going to be presented next

year in Brazil. The members of the GA also voted for the

new members of FDI and elected new representatives for

the next period. The new President Elect of FDI is Dr. Orlando Monteiro da Silva from Portugal. Ass. Prof. Nikolai Sharkov from

Bulgaria, EDSA Honorary Lifetime Member, was elected for the Communication & Member Support Committee. And Dr. Ward

van Dijk from Netherlands, EDSA President 1991-94 and Legend Focus in the latest EDSA Magazine, was elected for the

Dental Practice Committee.

International Speaker Development Programme (ISDP) / IADS forum

The FDI World Dental Federation and Nobel Biocare have established a partnership - the International Speaker Development

Programme (ISDP) to contribute to improving oral health through the establishment of a global network of young professional

opinion leaders. Six young oral health professionals, one from each of the UN regions, have been selected to undergo a year

long blended learning and training programme. During the forum everybody agreed that a number of only 6 participants it is not

enough in order to cover all the regions, so the suggestion to increase the number to 30-35 participants was accepted and this

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year edition was canceled, and new details are going to be available soon regarding the future contest.

EDSA Partnership:

The Dental Guide manual was presented to some future partners and meetings were held with representatives from different

companies: Kavo, EMS, Nobel Biocare, Dentsply, Planmeca, Hereaus, Unilever. The representative of Straumann was really

interested organizing in cooperation with EDSA different scientific trainings, but more details are going to be discussed in the

closest period.

A meeting was arranged with the representatives of the Blackwell-Wiley Publishing House and the new edition of the EDSA

Magazine was discussed. Suggestions about adding a survey addressed to all the readers regarding the content of the

magazine in the next issue were received. We were informed that more and more companies are interested in collaborating for

the next issues of the EDSA Magazine and the possibility of enlarging the cooperation between EDSA and Wiley – Blackwell

with other publications like the Dental Guide Manual for the next year was also discussed.

Visiting the dental clinics:

A tour in one of the dental clinics from Singapore was organized by a local

dental student. In Singapore most of the clinics have between 5 to 12

dental chairs and are located in the hospital buildings. Still, a lack of

dentists was mentioned by our colleague in the region. Please find

attached a picture of the clinic.

The upcoming FDI Annual Congresses: Salvador da Bahia, Brazil 2-5 September 2010

Mexico City, Mexico 14-17 September 2011