Seventeen years\nafter its regulation, more than a hundred dentists will be able to define in\nApril the first board of the College of Oral Surgery. Ant\u00f3nio Jos\u00e9 de Sousa\nheads the first list to present itself in an unprecedented election to this\nbody of the Portuguese Dental Association (OMD). If the present is a time for\n“hands on” work, the dentist sees the future of the specialty with a\ngreater participation of colleagues, looking at the training of professionals,\ncommunication, and social action as flagships of the project he presents for\nthe next four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is the\nimportance of the specialty colleges of the Order of Dentists (OMD), in the\ninstitution and in the profession, namely the one for Oral Surgery to which you\nare running?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I see the College\nplaying a key role in the dental organics. It is the College that defines all\nthe legal criteria, acting as a bridge between dentists, educational\ninstitutions, scientific societies, training centres and society. The College\nis responsible, for example, for the transcription and adaptation of\ninternational guidelines to Portugal, which are fundamental to support the\nlegis artis, in defence of the patient and the oral surgeon. The College is\nalso important because it defines norms and attributes suitability criteria to\nthe institutions that propose to provide specialisation teaching, suited to the\ncurrent demands of oral surgery training in Portugal, so that they are\nfulfilled by the institutions where the training takes place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After the\nOral Surgery specialty was created by the OMD in 1999, it was only officially\ninstituted in 2012. For you, what has been lost in this long process of\nrecognition of the specialty?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In reality, 22 of\nthe Official Gazette, published on 19th<\/sup> of June 2003, stated that\n\u201cthe dates and deadlines for Oral Surgery will be defined in the rules of\nprocedure of the respective College\u201d. Now, this never happened. Although the\nCollege was formally established with four colleagues on the board, it was not\nuntil September 2015 that the law governing the College of Oral Surgery was\npassed and with that the special call for applications was opened, which\nconcluded on 8 April 2017, with 139 colleagues being awarded the title. We know\nthat the creation of the new specialties resulted from the demands of the\nTroika, without which we would possibly still have no specialists. Dentistry\nand the population have lost 17 years due to the absolute lack of will on the\npart of those who ran the Order and the College. It is time to get to work and\nleave the past behind without forgetting it, to try not to repeat the same\nmistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Full\ninterview in DentalPro 158.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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. Ant\u00f3nio Jos\u00e9 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}