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“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.
Medika Takes a Chance on Dentistry
The company Medika MCN Tecnologia Medicinal S.A based in Santa Maria da Feira and founded in 2016 by the engineer Nuno Vasco Pinho Andrade “is a reference in health technology, continuously contributing to the improvement of healthcare”.
“Caring for people was Straumann’s number one request”
After a year out of his natural habitat, he returned to the dental sector with a backpack full of soft skills, which he treasures. The paths he has trodden for more than 15 years in the sector will take him even further since the beginning of 2021. The distance between Madrid and Portugal may be small, but the will to overcome the challenges is big. He considers himself an insider who sees the segmentation and organisation of the company as priorities. We met Straumann Group’s new General Manager Iberia, António Moutinho.
“My passion has always been oral surgery. It’s time to give back what I’ve enjoyed in my 28-year career”
Seventeen years after its regulation, more than a hundred dentists will be able to define in April the first board of the College of Oral Surgery. António José de Sousa heads the first list to present itself in an unprecedented election to this body of the Portuguese Dental Association (OMD). If the present is a time for “hands on” work, the dentist sees the future of the specialty with a greater participation of colleagues, looking at the training of professionals, communication, and social action as flagships of the project he presents for the next four years.
The Portuguese woman who “calls the shots” in dentistry worldwide
We went to meet Raquel Zita, a Portuguese woman who is among the top 100 dentists in the world according to the 2020 World’s Top 100 Doctors. A woman in a profession “dominated” by men, who’s trademark colour is red, and wishes to inspire other female dentists.