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IDA NEWS
Annual Conference 2022
The Annual Conference 2022 will take place on May 12-14 at the old faithful venue of The Galmont Hotel, Galway. We are delighted this year to welcome Dr Minesh Patel, Dr Celine Higton, Dr Markuz Blatz (pictured) and Dr Wally Rene to the programme, along with many more. Further details will be announced soon.
Following on from recent Government announcements re: Covid-19 restrictions, we are delighted to announce that branches/regions will be allowed to commence face-to-face meetings after October 22. Branch committees are meeting to decide on speakers, venues and dates.
IDA logo
IDA members are entitled to use the ‘member of IDA’ logo on their website, headed notepaper, business cards, etc. The logo may only be used on the website if all dentists in the practice are IDA members. To get your copy of the most recent logo, please contact Aoife at IDA House on aoife@irishdentalassoc.ie. MEMBER 2022
Dr Amalia Pahomi elected HSE President
The AGM of the HSE Dental Surgeons Group took place on October 7 via Zoom. The AGM was preceded by a fantastic lecture by Mr Paul Ashley, Paediatric Consultant at King’s College London, on the topic of ‘Avoiding GA for children’. Dr Amalia Pahomi was elected President of the HSE Dental Surgeons Group at the AGM. Dr Pahomi is a Romanian dental graduate and is a general dentist at Hartstown Health Centre, Dublin 15.
Postgrad Certificate in Orofacial Pain
The Dublin Dental University Hospital’s (DDUH) online Postgraduate Certificate in Orofacial Pain commenced in January of this year and the first students will graduate in November. They will receive their qualification having been taught jointly by two universities – Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and the University of Southern California (USC). Applications are open now for the 2022 course and general dental practitioners with good clinical experience are invited to apply. Students will be able to log in from anywhere to tutors who will be based in Dublin and California. Prof. Glenn Clarke of USC, who is a world-renowned researcher in orofacial pain, is a joint course director, along with Drs Dermot Canavan (pictured) and Philip Hardy of TCD. Speaking to the Journal, Dr Canavan said: “The course focuses on problems that general dental practitioners in both private and public practice come across regularly, but which are not routinely covered in undergraduate programmes. Dentists who complete this course will have a much better knowledge of how to deal with these problems. Additionally, they will, if they wish, be able to go on to complete an MSc in orofacial pain through USC. The requirement for the Postgrad Certificate is one day a week but, of course, being online that can be completed from anywhere”. The course starts in January and interested parties should contact the DDUH immediately.
IDA joins FDI response to WHO oral health strategy
The FDI World Dental Federation (FDI) and 65 other organisations, including the Irish Dental Association, have submitted a joint response to the public consultation for the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) draft Global Strategy on Oral Health. The current strategy’s vision fully aligns with the FDI’s Vision 2030: Delivering Optimal Oral Health for All document, and also refers to the three elements of universal health coverage (UHC) — quality, equitable access, and financial protection — in the context of oral health promotion and oral healthcare. While commending this initial draft, the FDI and co-signatories urge the WHO to develop a global strategy that is robust, time bound, and implementation oriented, encompassing more ambitiously all the different areas that require reform in national health systems for oral health to become an integral element of UHC and noncommunicable disease (NCD) strategies. The Global Strategy would benefit from a more comprehensive description of all the implications that the associations between oral health, NCDs and general health have for health systems. The importance of optimising the oral health workforce to achieve the vision and goal of this Global Strategy calls for a specific strategic objective on oral health workforce. Sustainability should also be included as a guiding principle. The FDI stands ready to support the WHO and member states with the development and implementation of the Global Strategy.
