Category: Dental medicine
“Art with Heart” marked the 31st OMD Congress
The annual meeting of dentists once again coincided with Expodentária, events that took place between the 17th and 19th of November 2022, at Feira Internacional de Lisboa.
Juliana André Laboratory creates Tracking Tool
Juliana André Dental Laboratory has created a tracking tool, allowing dental clinics and other customers to follow the status of their work requests. The idea was introduced to “facilitate both the laboratory’s and the clinic’s work”, as everything will be made available on the laboratory’s site.
The number of dentists in Portugal has almost doubled since 2010
At the end of the 2021, the Ordem dos Médicos Dentistas (OMD) [Dentists’ Association] was made up of 12,235 actively registered professionals practising in Portugal, almost double the amount registered in 2010, when the number was only 6,905. In 2021, in comparison to the year before, the number of actively practising dentists in Portugal increased by 5.1%. These numbers were revealed in the “Números da Ordem” [Association Statistics] Study, carried out
“The future will bring changes to the teaching of the profession”
In a conversation with DentalPro, Paulo Melo, current Head of the Faculty of Dental Medicine at the Universidade do Porto (FMDUP), revealed some of the goals for the mandate and says he has had the vital support of the whole faculty, professors, students and non-teaching staff.
SPEMD: XLII Annual Congress scheduled for October
A Sociedade Portuguesa de Estomatologia e Medicina Dentária [The Portuguese Society of Stomatology and Dental Medicine] (SPEMD) published a provisionary programme of their next meeting, scheduled to take place at the ‘Centro de Artes e Espectáculos’ in Figueira da Foz, on the 13th, 14th and 15th of October.