Wednesday, 25 January 2012
CDA Bulletin January 2012
Monday, 12 September 2011
The Commonwealth Dental Association supports World Oral Health Day
The CDA is supporting World Oral Health Day 2011 (12 September), which is focusing on non-communicable diseases. The event is coordinated by the International Dental Federation (FDI), of which the CDA is an associate member.
The CDA supports the FDI in calling for a stronger focus on oral diseases in policy making around NCDs ahead of a UN General Assembly Summit on the issue that takes place in New York next week (19 and 20 September 2011). The event will focus on the growing health and economic impacts of NCDs. The FDI, which represents more than a million oral health professionals worldwide, is calling for a clear recognition of oral conditions among the global NCD priorities and a strengthening of the role of dentists and the dental team in preventing them.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the world is seeing a growing epidemic of non-communicable, or chronic, diseases (NCDs), and they are currently one of the leading causes of premature deaths worldwide. World Oral Health Day 2011 is focusing on these conditions because oral diseases and other NCDs share many common risk factors including tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol and over-consumption of sugar.
Further details about World Oral Health Day and campaigning activities for it are available at:
http://www.fdiworldental.org/content/fdi-produces-media-kit-world-oral-health-day-2011
Thursday, 28 April 2011
CDA UK Reports
The links for a number of the CDA Reports which were previously on the CDAUK website homepage have now been moved into the Reports page and can be accessed by clicking on the Reports menu on the left.
Monday, 11 April 2011
CDA Bulletin February 2011
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Report on 6th Triennial Meeting at Singapore 2009
See the CDAUK website for the Report at www.cdauk.com
The New CDA Executive 2009
Executive Secretary: Dr Sam Thorpe OOR (Sierra Leone)
Treasurer: Dr Anthony Kravitz OBE (UK)
President-Elect: Dr William O’Reilly (Australia)
Immediate Past–President: Prof Jacob Kaimenyi (Kenya)
Regional Vice-Presidents:
Europe: Dr Sue Greening (UK)
South East Asia: Dr Lee Soon Boon (Malaysia)
Pacific/Australasia: (VACANT)
Canada/Caribbean: Dr Tanya Mortemore (Bahamas)
West Africa: Prof Adeyemi Olusile (Nigeria)
East, Central and
Southern Africa: Prof Flora Fabian-Taylor (Tanzania)
