The Croatian Dental Chamber (CDC), aiming to further develop dental medicine and call attention for the importance of oral health, organized last January, several important meetings: President of Croatia, Croatia Dental Chamber and visit to University of Zagreb School of Dental Medicine.
Once again, the FDI supports its members and its initiatives to promote oral health.
Meeting with the dean of the University of Zagreb School of Dental Medicine and with head of the departments
With Dragutin Komar, dean of the University of Zagreb School of Dental Medicine.
Troika meeting with the board of the Croatia Dental Chamber and representatives of the Bosnia Herzegovina and Slovenia.
I was invited to address our Croatian colleagues as president of the FDI. (To consult my speech below)
I was also happy to see the Portuguese Dental Association being honored by the president of the CDC, Hrvoje Pezo.
The President of the Republic managed to find time in his schedule, immediately before the referendum on EU accession, to hear about FDI’s projects and the state of oral health in Croatia and the projects currently being developed. Always with the purpose of advocating optimal oral health in Croatia. We also gave him a copy of the FDI Oral Health Atlas.
The President is a man passionate about music, being a musician and composer himself. Aware of this passion, I offered him Portuguese music, fado, World’s Intangible Cultural Heritage, through the voice of Camané, a famous Portuguese fado singer.
At the Presidential Palace with Hrvoje Pezo before the meeting.
The Croatian President, Ivo Josipović, with me and the Croatia Dental Chamber boards members.
The meeting itself!
Local market.
I brought with me the sympathy and the scent of this beautiful country and the certainty that Croatia dental medicine is going on in a very positive way.
Orlando Monteiro da Silva 