Orlando Monteiro da Silva

Meeting between the Portuguese Dental Association and the British Dental Association, 29 July 2009 in London, England

Dr. Orlando Monteiro da Silva, Dr. Susie Sanderson and Dr. Peter Ward

I recently participated on the 31st Asia Pacific Dental Congress, under the theme “Emerging Trends and Practices of Dentistry – Managing the Next Wave”, held in Hong Kong from the 7th till the 11th of May. This congress was organized by the local dental association and under the auspices of the Asia Pacific Dental Federation.

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Dear friends, I share with you on this blog the letter I sent to all profession representatives in Europe:

Dear Colleagues

Nowadays the practice of dentistry faces specific challenges.

The slowdown of economic activity has been noticeable for a while now. And us, dentists, self employed or not, mainly depend on payments made directly or indirectly by our patients and we are well aware of how the reduction of family income affects the demand for our services.

This type of crisis should motivate us to adjust. And, this adjustment will pose threats as well as new opportunities to act and new challenges.

It is time for our profession to reaffirm the fundamental principles that guide us, including the principles of independence of dentists, direct relationship with patients and, most of all, promotion of high standards of oral health.

CED represents more than 320,000 dentists and will remain actively involved in defending these principles to protect the health of Europeans.

Best Regards,

The President

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Orlando Monteiro da Silva

Dear friends,

let me share a recommendation of an article sent to me by a colleague from Poland, Anna Lella:

The Lancet, Volume 373, Issue 9657, Page 1, 3 January 2009 “Oral health: prevention is key”

www.thelancet.com

The global crisis that affects us will chance some of the traditional paradigms of our professional practice.

The FDI, as the main organization representing the oral health sector, must be one step ahead of this situation.

I am absolutely sure that new and fascinating opportunities will arise from this period we are living.

It’s up to us all to help the FDI to identify them and, mostly, to help society and oral health professionals to internalize them

Let’s work for 2009!

This is the personal blog of Orlando Monteiro da Silva.

Medical dentist for more than 20 years, Portuguese. Over the years, also devoted my time to participate actively in national and international institutions to promote dental and oral health.

With this blog I want to introduce myself and invite all those who want to share experiences, discuss scientific and clinical developments on prevention programs, about best practices, discuss … and, frankly, all the themes of the universe of Oral Health.