CED RESOLUTION ON THE PROFILE OF THE DENTIST OF THE FUTURE - KEY DRIVING FORCES IN DENTISTRY

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May 2017

The Council of European Dentists (CED)1 aims to promote high standards on oral healthcare and dentistry with effective patient-safety centred professional practice, and to contribute to safeguarding the protection of public health. In the last decades, we have witnessed an immense progress in the prevention of caries in children, but damaged, missing or filled teeth are still the norm in Europe. Oral diseases remain amongst the most important health burdens: nearly half of the world population suffers from untreated dental caries, severe chronic periodontitis and total tooth loss.2 Moreover, people still fail to realise that oral health is an integral part of general health, and this impact not only on quality of life, but also society and health systems through the associated economic costs.3 “Oral health is multi-faceted and includes the ability to speak, smile, smell, taste, touch, chew, swallow and convey a range of emotions through facial expressions with confidence and without pain, discomfort and disease of the craniofacial complex. Further attributes related to the definition state that oral health: is a fundamental component of health and physical and mental well-being; it exists along a continuum influenced by the values and attitudes of individuals and communities; reflects the physiological, social and psychological attributes that are essential to the quality of life; is influenced by the individual’s changing experiences, perceptions, expectations and ability to adapt to circumstances”.4

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