Journal of Disability and Oral Health
- Cover Date:
- September 2014
- Electronic ISSN:
- 1470-8558
- Vol:
- 15
- Issue:
- 3
22nd IADH Congress – Welcome Address
Welcome address of the Chair of the Scientiï¬c and Organising Committee for the IADH congress 2014 in Berlin
Dear IADH members and colleagues with interest in Special Care Dentistry! Oral health care and therapy for patients with special care needs represents a huge challenge for dentists and dental teams and requires a great degree of interdisciplinary coordination and cooperation with many medical and nonmedical disciplines. In the view of the Scientific and Organisational Committee of the IADH congress 2014 in Berlin, this meeting will contribute to the maintenance and improvement of the oral health of special care patients in three main fields: firstly, prevention will be acknowledged much more so than previously, secondly, the professional exchange of knowledge between dentists and physicians will be intensified and thirdly, important scientific information about restorative procedures performed under modalities such as general anaesthesia will be provided. By looking at the list of the invited speakers of the IADH congress 2014 in Berlin you will realise that four main lectures are about prevention, while in several sessions the main lectures will be presented not only by dentists and orthodontists but also by physicians. It has to be emphasised that not only persons with intellectual disabilities or multiple disabilities are in need of Special Care Dentistry also those patients with rare or severe diseases, as well as patients with syndromes. Therefore, there will be key presentations from healthcare disciplines for rare diseases such as sclerodermia and ectodermal dysplasia. Furthermore, some main lectures will be dedicated to the themes of dental therapy for special care patients under general anaesthesia and diagnostics of pain. I would like to emphasise that scientific meetings have of course not only the goal to disseminate expert knowledge by invited speakers and by discussion with colleagues, but also enable presentations and discussion of scientific investigations as well as interesting clinical cases. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the German Association of Oral Surgeons (BDO) for supporting energetically the IADH conference 2014. Without them it would have been almost impossible to organise this international conference. Furthermore, I am very grateful that the IADH congress in Berlin will take place under the auspices of the German Dental Association (Bundeszahnärztekammer). It is a great pleasure for the Scientific and Organising Committee to welcome the congress participants on the opening ceremony of the 22nd IADH conference on the 2nd October 2014 in Berlin. We wish all participants to have fruitful discussions and to receive many ideas how to improve the dental care and oral health of patients with disabilities! With best wishes Prof. Dr. Andreas G. Schulte President of the 2014 IADH Congress in Berlin
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