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| events 40 laser 1 2016 Laser education at its best AALZ Mastership courses in Greece Author: Dr Dimitris Strakas, Greece Fig. 1: Leisure times and Greek cuisine dinner. Fig. 2: Prof. Norbert Gutknecht in action. Fig. 3: The mastership/fellowship 2015–2016 group photo. Fig. 4: Hands-on workshop with different wavelengths. Since 1991, when AALZ was originally founded, a vast number of dentists have been educated and certified as laser experts. It was in 2010 that a new branch of AALZ has opened its arms in Athens and Thessaloniki, providing courses in laser dentistry for Greek and foreign dentists. Entering its 6th year of operation, AALZ Greece has already established its position as a leader in certified education for laser dentistry. A dozen of laser safety officer courses, many diode-orien- tated wavelength courses, four mastership/fellow- ship programmes and several one-day seminars with a variety of lectures have been offered and embraced by the Greek dental world. Even in this difficult and challenging financial period, especially in Greece, but also in Europe, we are happy to say that this year’s mastership/fellow- ship course 2015–2016 is a big success, reaching a number of 14 participants. ThecoursestartedonOctober10and11,2015,with Module I, covering the laser safety officer certifica- tion, the laser construction and handling part and the ILIASsystem—introductionandunderstanding.Mod- ule I was repeated on January 23 and 24, 2016, since several more dentists have enrolled. We had the honour and pleasure in both circum- stances to host Mr Leon Vanweersch, who wel- Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Fig. 4 12016