FDI Annual World Dental Congress

Bangkok will be hosting the 2015 FDI Annual World Dental Congress from 22 to 25 September 2015. The contract between FDI and the Dental Association of Thailand was signed at a brief ceremony on 27 August in advance of the official opening of FDI 2013 Istanbul.

Present at the signing were: on behalf of the Dental Association of Thailand: Dr Adirek S. Wongsa, President, and Lt Gen Phisal Thepsithar, President-Elect (2013-2015) ; on behalf of FDI: President, Dr Tin Chun Wong, Immediate Past President, Dr Orlando Monteiro da Silva and Executive Director, Dr Jean-Luc Eiselé.

Commentators point to the wisdom of the choice given the rapid growth of dentistry in Thailand. According to recent estimates, today the country has a workforce of some 12,000 dentists, about 5,800 per head of population (php). This represents a rapid increase in supply from the 2007 ratio of 7,300 php, quoted in FDI’s Oral Health Atlas (2009).

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