Dental News - Major ortho meeting kicks off with Eurovision star power

Dental Tribune International

Sun. 12. June 2016

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden: Orthodontics’ biggest event of the year has just begun in Stockholm. After six years of planning, the 2016 conference of the European Orthodontic Society (EOS) was opened in grand style on Sunday in the Swedish capital with performances by European Song Contest winner Charlotte Perrelli, among other cultural highlights.

As part of the official opening ceremony, the 41-year-old singer and television personality, who has twice represented her country in the singing contest, performed her songs “Hero” and “Take Me to Your Heaven”, for which she won the 1999 competition.

Swedish journalist Alexandra Hjelm led the 1-hour programme, which also saw performances by Malmö periodontist Claes Virdeborn, who entertained attendees with his stand-up programme, as well as 2012 European Grand Prix for Choral Singing winner Sofia Vokalensemble.

Congress chairman Jan Huggare, a professor at Karolinska Institutet’s Department of Dental Medicine in Stockholm and a passionate violinist, also participated in the opening of the 92^nd EOS congress with a musical piece, accompanied by the renowned Tälje Symphony Orchestra.

The historic meeting of the EOS is being held in Sweden for the fifth time. The programme will cover traditional orthodontic topics, as well as focus on medically compromised patients, patients’ treatment experiences, the adult patient, and the orthodontic treatment of children and adolescents with lingual appliances. A number of internationally distinguished clinicians will share their expertise on a wide range of topics, including the factors that determine whether orthodontics should be conducted with or without orthognathic surgery or whether archwise distraction is possible in alveolar distraction osteogenesis.

The winners of the W J B Houston Research Awards, the Beni Solow Award and the award established in memoriam of the late Prof. Francesca Ada Miotti will be announced as well.

“It is a great honour to host this annual meeting of our orthodontic community, which links the traditions cherished and refined by past presidents of the Society with the challenges of meeting the expectations of the younger members of our Society,” Huggare said.

Founded in 1907 with the goals of advancing all aspects of orthodontics and its relations with the collateral arts and sciences for the public benefit, as well as of seeking the furtherance of orthodontics among all branches of the dental profession working in private practice, hospitals and universities throughout Europe, the EOS currently has members from 24 countries, including Sweden, Germany, Austria, France and the UK. Its annual meeting is open to members and non-members alike.

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