Chief Dental Officers

Chief Dental Officers will meet on 21st and 23rd November in Lisbon, to share knowledge and experiences and to examine and debate strategies for the promotion of oral health in different EU countries. The meeting is organised jointly by the Portuguese Directorate-General of Health and the Portuguese Dental Association (Ordem dos Médicos Dentistas). Its mission is to advise different European decision-making bodies on matters regarding oral health.

The Chief Dental Officer in Portugal is currently Dr. Rui Manuel Calado (Portuguese Directorate-General of Health) who, as such, is a member of the European Council of Chief Dental Officers.

Draft agenda

Date

Time

 

Wednesday 21 Nov

 

09.00-12.30

Board Meeting of the Council of European CDO’s (5 members)

12.45- 14.00

Lunch

14.00-14.30

Opening session / Adoption of agenda

14.30-14.50

Health gains in oral health - Results of the National Survey (Gregória Von Amman)

14.50-15.10

Knowledge in the field of oral health – Results of the National Health Survey  (Marinho Falcão)

15.10-15.30

National Heath Service reform and perspectives on a new Oral Health approach  (Rui Calado)

15.30-15.50

Coffee break

15.50-16.10

Human resources in dental medicine (Orlando da Silva)

16.10-17.15

Debate

17.15-17.30

Closing session

 

20.00

Official dinner

 

Thursday 22 Nov

 

09.00-09.20

Emergency care in dental medicine (Corrado Paganelli)

09.20-10.40

Workshop  Public response to dental emergency  (Corrado Paganelli)

10.40-11.00

Coffee break

11.00-12.20

Workshop Public intervention in oral health care of adults and elderly (Simona Dianiskovà)

12.20-12.40

Conclusions and recommendations of workshops

12. 45-14.00

Lunch

14.00-16.15

Council of European CDO’s – Business meeting

16.15- 16.30

Closing session

 

20.00

Dinner sponsored by the Portuguese Dental Association

 

Friday 23 Nov

09.30-13.00

Models for intervention in Oral Health

1. Oral Health financial and economic models (Cuenca)

2. Assignment of tasks and resources (Ken Eaton)

3. How to measure the effectiveness of these models (Denis Bourgeois)

4. Current situation and future perspectives for dental medicine: types of intervention

 


Contacts:
Rui Calado, Directorate-General of Health and Chief Dental Officer (rcalado@srssantarem.min-saude.pt)