DentalPro presents an excerpt of an extensive interview with Lu\u00eds Monteiro, Professor at the Instituto Universit\u00e1rio de Ci\u00eancias da Sa\u00fade, (IUCS-CESPU) and coordinator of the post-graduate course in Medicine and Oral Pathology and the post-graduate course in Laster at the IUCS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lu\u00eds Monteiro took part\nin the new classification of potentially malignant lesions in the World Health\nOrganisation Collaborating Centre for Oral Cancer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
How do you feel being the first Portuguese dentist to\nbe part of this classification? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n More important than being first, or any other order,\nis being able to give my personal contribution as a Portuguese dentist, in a\nway, representing our country in a meeting with a group of international\nauthors whom I have always admired. On the other hand, it is also a\nresponsibility to represent oral medicine, which is done very well in our\ncountry by many colleagues, in an important workshop of the WHO Collaborative\nOral Cancer Centre study group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We should be proud of many of our colleagues who, in\nvarious areas of dentistry, or medicine, are contributing worldwide to\nscientific advances in certain areas with the aim of improving diagnosis,\ntherapeutic options and the quality of life of our patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have colleagues who are founders of the largest\nEuropean associations of oral medicine and who continue to be a world reference\nin oral medicine, colleagues in implantology, periodontology, surgery,\northodontics, etc., who, sometimes right next to us, represent our country in a\nunique way worldwide, and whom I personally look up to as an example and\nadmiration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n