CED RESOLUTION ON THE PROFILE OF THE DENTIST OF THE FUTURE - KEY DRIVING FORCES IN DENTISTRY
From website 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 fa...