Category: Dental medicine

At the end of last year, the Ordem dos Médicos Dentistas (Portuguese Dental Association) (OMD) had 10,653 members with active memberships, exceeding, for the first time, the threshold of 10,000 members with active memberships.

João Pimenta has just joined the Brazilian Academy of Dentistry (AcBO – Academia Brasileira de Odontologia), chaired by Mario Groisman. The Portuguese dentist will be sworn in as an Honorary Academic, thus becoming part of the AcBO Academic Board.

The dentist Rui Amaral Mendes is part of the team of experts responsible for writing the guidelines “Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw”, recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. This is the first time that a Portuguese dentist has been involved in the creation of ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) guidelines.

The consultancy GM Business Consulting will welcome David Penn for two lectures under the topics of “Clear Aligners, Aesthetics and Building a Practice for the Future” and “Predictability and Clear Aligner Therapy? What Is Real and What Is a Cartoon!” on the 4th and 5th of October, in Lisbon.

The OralMed Dental Medicine Clinics recently developed the first “Portrait of Orthodontics in Portugal” – a nationwide study that assesses the main motivations and withdrawals of Portuguese people in relation to orthodontics and offers several suggestions for dentists.