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I events Figs. 3 & 5_Traditionally, an industrial exhibition is run parallel to the congress, giving participants insight to the current trends of the laser market. Fig. 4_A display of the latest OEMUS MEDIA AG publications, among them the current issue of laserinternational magazine of laser dentistry. nationally renowned, the event attracted many col- leagues and speakers from various nations. A major roleinthispositiveinternationalresponsetothecon- gress formed the fact that the first congress day was plannedtofeatureallinternationalspeeches.Alllec- tureswereinterpretedsimultaneouslyintoEnglishor German. A total of 250 visitors took part in the con- gress. Prof. Dr Norbert Gutknecht opened the two-day event Friday morning and gave a warm welcome as well as his introductory speech. He was followed by top-level speakers such as Prof. Dr Jens Malte Baron, Aachen, Prof. Dr. Andreas Braun, Marburg, Dr James Caroll, Chesham (GB), Dr Marina Polosky, Ottawa (CA), Dr Alin Odor, Constanta (RO), Dr Joshua Weintraub, Stevenson, MD (US), Dr Jaana Sippus, Vaasa (Fl) and Dr Habib Zarifeh/Beirut (LB). All these scientificexpertsgaveininsighttotheircurrentwork, focusing on laser and its various applications. _Election of a new executive board Inearlyafternoonofthefirstcongressday,mem- bers of the DGL assembled for the society’s general meeting. Prof. Dr Norbert Gutknecht, Dr Detlef Klotz, Dr Stefan Grümer, Dr Thorsten Kleinert, Prof. Dr Anton Sculean, Prof. Dr Siegfried Jänicke and Dr Gabriele Schindler-Hultzsch were elected as the new executive board of the DGL. A series of fur- ther interesting speeches by Dr Gottfried Gisler, Männedorf (CH), Dr Dimitris Strakas (GR), Priv.-Doz. Dr Jörg Meister, Bonn, Prof. Dr Gerd Volland, Sevilla (ES), Dr Steffen Stein, Marburg, und Priv.-Doz. Dr Moritz Kebschull, Bonn, formed the second half ofFriday’scongressprogramme.DrMichaelSchäfer, Düsseldorf,concludedthefirstcongressdaywithhis lecture on opportunities and limitations of (diode-) laser-supported optimisation. of the so-called “red aesthetics”. _LASER START UP 2015 Attendees of LASER START UP 2015, which ran parallel to the 24th International Annual Congress, weregivencomprehensiveinformationonthebasics of laser dentistry. They were welcomed by Dr Jörg Meister, Bonn, who gave a speech on the physical principles of laser technology. He was followed by lectures on laser applications in periodontology, oral surgery and conservative dentistry. _Yearbook Laser Dentistry 2016 Another main feature of the congress was an ex- tensiveindustrialexhibition.Participantsofthecon- gressvisitedtheexhibitioneitherbetweenlecturesor during their seminar breaks. Thus, they made use of this opportunity to contact laser manufacturers di- rectly and to gain background information on spe- cific products. 36 I laser4_2015 Fig. 5 Fig. 3 Fig. 4