The elections for the Specialty Colleges of Oral Surgery, Periodontology, Paediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics of the Order of Dentists determined on 30th April, after elections with high participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of the four Colleges, only Oral Surgery\npresented four different lists for voting. Of these, List C, headed by Gil\nFernandes Alves, was the winner with 44 votes from a total of 117 voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The remaining Colleges elected their\nrespective Boards from single lists, as was the case with the Specialty College\nof Periodontology, with Helena Rebelo as head of the list, the Specialty\nCollege of Paediatric Dentistry, which elected Paula Faria Marques as President\nand the Specialty College of Orthodontics, in which Lu\u00eds Jardim, President of\nthe Board of Directors of this College, won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the Portuguese Dental\nAssociation (OMD) “there was a great participation in this electoral act\nof the specialists of the four colleges, showing an unequivocal example of\nvitality on their part”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of the four electoral colleges, the Oral\nSurgery College had the highest percentage of voters (84.4%), followed by\nOrthodontics (84%), Periodontology (69.8%) and Paediatric Dentistry with 64.1%\nof votes counted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
OMD also points out that the \u201celectronic\nvote was the most common form of voting in this electoral act\u201d, with a \u201clarge\nnumber of specialist members using this form of voting\u201d, with almost 73% of the\nPaediatric Dentistry voters using this digital method, followed by 67.7% of\nOrthodontics, 59.5% of Periodontology and 57.3% of Oral Surgery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
From the last elections, in which only the\nCollege of Orthodontics ran, there was a 30% increase in the percentage of\nvoters, from 54% to 84%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The elections that took place on 30 April\nelected the new boards of the Specialty Colleges of Oral Surgery,\nPeriodontology, Paediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics of the Portuguese Dental\nAssociation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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