Worldental Daily, Wednesday, 29 August 2012

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Booth # Booth # H16/18 H16/18 AD T oday saw the official launchoftheFDI’sGlobal Caries Initiative (GCI) website, through which the federation will communicate the GCI’s aims and achieve- ments. Through a secure plat- form on the website, partners oftheinitiativecanalsodebate and discuss specific ways to move the project forward. The FDI said that it is proud of the GCI not only for the inno- vative and visionary role it as- signs to dental medicine, but also for the opportunity it offers to better inte- grate dental medicine into public health policy, forexampleinthefieldofnoncommunicabledis- eases.Firstlaunchedin2009,withsupportfrom foundersponsorsColgate,Unilever,Proctorand Gamble, GlaxoSmithKline and Wrigley, the ini- tiative was founded to integrate, in a practical way, the global health promotion dimension of the FDI’s mission. Its ultimate aim is to facilitate a paradigm shift towards preventive caries management. With that in mind, one of its first achieve- mentswasthedevelopmentofacomprehensive frameworkforcariesclassificationandmanage- ment.TheFDICariesMatrix(2011)isakeystepin integratingcurrentscienceandestablishingpo- litical consensus for such a framework. It is also intendedtobeaninitialsteptowardsintegrating currentscienceintodentalpractice,whilerecog- nising that it will need further development and refinement.Itsdevelopmenthasnowbeencom- pleted and it provides the foundation for the GCI’s future progress. The GCI is also FDI’s concrete response to a perceived need best expressed at the 120th ses- sion of theWorld Health Organization Executive Board by WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan: “Oral health is a neglected area of inter- national health.” Membersofthedentalprofessionagreethat caries is not just about oral health; it is also about quality of life and, considering the num- ber of school and work days lost due to oral pain,economiccost.Yetonlyafewinternational programmes and related funding mechanisms address the issue. The GCI intends to reverse this trend, generate greater awareness about the implications of neglected oral health and, with its focus on prevention, raise oral health to a higher level of international and national development policy. According to the FDI, the GCI is not a move from a surgical and restorative model of care to a preventive one, that is replacement, since restoration, whether for health-related or aes- theticreasons,willalwayshaveavitalroleinthe work of the dental professional; the preventive model fulfils a more specific dimension of “leading the world to optimal oral health” by reaching a wider public worldwide in a shorter timeframe.Itratherseekstoencompassappro- priaterestorativecarewithinaprevention-based model of oral health to expand value and con- tribute to health outcomes, the federation said. Visitors can join a live demonstration of www.globalcariesinitiative.org during the FDI Annual World Dental Congress at Booth K29 in the exhibition hall. GlobalCariesInitiativeis goingpublicinHongKong FDIlaunchesnewwebsiteinpartnershipwithDTI A partnership between the Vietnamese Odonto-Stomatology Association (VOSA) andUnilever’sP/Sbrandaimstoimprove oral health among 1,000 Vietnamese primary schoolchildrenbyprovidingoralcareeducation andencouragingthemtobrushtheirteethtwice a day with a fluoride toothpaste. The oral care education is provided by primary school teach- ers, who received training and materials from thepartnerstohelpthemintheclassroom. A behaviour-change programme has been initiated, integrating twice daily brushing into the normal school routine, with the partners installing toothbrushing booths in school so that pupils can brush their teeth after meals. An important aspect of the programme focuses on helping parents to get their children to brush their teeth in the mornings and evenings. The partners encourage parents to make twice daily brushing with fluoride toothpaste an activity in which the whole family participates. Discussing the potential impact of the Live.Learn.Laugh. partnership project, Dr Trinh Dinh Hai, VOSA President, said, “Implementing oral health care for young children will yield lifelong outcomes. When children grow up with a bright smile, they are more confident.” Remember to visit the Live.Learn.Laugh. partnership stand to find out more about the excitingoralhealth-improvementprojectstaking place around the world. Live.Learn.Laugh. partnership OralhealthpromotionstartedinVietnameseprimaryschools News Wednesday, 29 August 2012 I GCI chair Dr Patrick Hescot (center) posing with FDI President Dr Orlando Monteiro da Silva and DTI presidentTorsten Oemus.