The ADF across the world

 

The French Dental Association is the organisation which represents France within the FDI World Dental Federation. As the authoritative voice of the French dental community, it endeavours to establish good practice standards on an international level by promoting the values held highest by French dentists – commitment to professional ethics and high quality private practice. As many other countries do not share these values, it is of vital importance that the ADF be supported by the highest number possible of individual FDI members.

The FDI World Dental Federation

The FDI World Dental Federation was established on 15 August 1900 in Paris, France, hence the acronym FDI, which refers to the French name Fédération Dentaire Internationale. Today, the FDI is the professional, world-wide organisation of dentistry. The FDI is a nongovernmental organisation recognised by the United Nations and the World Health Organisation as the authoritative voice of the dental profession on matters of oral health care.

 

Members Thirty five International Dental Associations and 152 National Dental Associations representing over 700,000 individual dentists are currently members of the FDI. Goals The FDI World Dental Federation promotes easy access to proper health care for all peoples, with the intent to achieve optimal oral and general health world-wide.. Activities  The FDI World Dental Federation collects all available scientific information and collaborates and disseminates dental practice guidelines which have received international consensus, to inform and support dental organisations and individual dentists world-wide.  The FDI works in close collaboration with the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), the International Association for Dental Research (IADR), the International Dental Manufacturers (IDM), and many other organisations.  Each year, the FDI organises a World Dental Congress. This annual event, which is held in a different country from one year to the next, offers dentists a unique opportunity to meet their counterparts from the world over.  After Seoul in 1997, Barcelona in 1998, Mexico in 1999, Paris in 2000 for the Federation’s 100th birthday, Kuala Lumpur in 2001, Vienna in 2002 and Sydney in 2003, New Delhi in 2004, Montréal in 2005, The FDI has chosen Shenzhen for its 2006 World Dental Congress and Dubai for 2007.  The FDI has its own publishing house, the FDI World Dental Press, which offers the dental profession a wide variety of scientific papers, reports, books and journals, including the FDI Annual Report, the International Dental Journal, Community Dental Health, the European Journal of Prosthodontics and Restorative Dentistry, and Gerodontology.

The FDI Annual World Dental Congress The  FDI 2010 Annual World Dental Congress will be held in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, 2-5 September 2010.  The Congress will give the dental community the opportunity to discover the most recent developments in dental research, state-of-the-art scientific and clinical technologies, and the wide range of dental techniques and equipment currently available    >>>    more info   Contacts For further information, please contact: Association Dentaire Française 7 rue Mariotte, 75017, Paris, France tel: +33 1 58 22 17 11 fax: +33 1 58 22 17 40 e-mail: secgeneral@adf.asso.fr FDI World Dental Federation Tour de Cointrin, Avenue Louis Casaï 84, 1216 Cointrin-Genève, SWITZERLAND tel: +41 22 560 81 50 fax: +41 22 560 81 40 e-mail: congress@fdiworldental.org website: http://www.fdiworldental.org