Dental Liaison Committee in the EU

MANUAL OF DENTAL PRACTICE2004

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Authors:Dr Anthony S Kravitz

OBE

andProfessor Elizabeth T Treasure

Dental Public Health Unit in the University of Wales,College of Medicine, Cardiff, United Kingdom

The Liaison Committee of the Dental Associations of theEuropean UnionMay 2004

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Preface

The revised Manual of Dental Practice in the EU was commissioned by the Dental LiaisonCommittee in the EU

in November 2002. The work has been undertaken by the Dental PublicHealth Unit in the University of Wales, College of Medicine, Cardiff, United Kingdom. Althoughthe unit had editorial control over the content, most of the changes were suggested andvalidated by the member associations of the Committee.

About the authors

Anthony Kravitz

graduated from the University of Manchester, England, in 1966. Following ashort period working in a hospital he has worked in general dental practice in the GreaterManchester area ever since. From 1988 to 1994 he chaired the British Dental Association’s

Dental Auxiliaries’ Committee

and from 1997 until 2003, was the chief negotiator for the UK’sNHS general practitioners, when head of the relevant BDA committee. From 1996 until 2003 hewas chairman of the

Ethics and Quality Assurance Working Group

of the EU Dental LiaisonCommittee. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wales

College of Medicine,in Cardiff and his research interests include healthcare systems and the use of dentalauxiliaries.President of the BDA from May 2004 until May 2005, he was awarded an honour (OBE) by theQueen at the end of 2002.

Elizabeth Treasure

graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1979, following whichshe completed a PhD. She then worked in the community dental service before emigrating toNew Zealand to become a full-time academic in 1990. She returned to Wales in 1995. She isProfessor and Honorary Consultant of Dental Public Health at the University of Wales

Collegeof Medicine, in Cardiff and is Vice Dean for research. She has been a scientific advisor to theDepartment of Health in London.Her research interests include clinical effectiveness, epidemiology and clinical trials. She hasbeen a member of the UK Medical Research Council group on fluoridation and on a EuropeanUnion Expert group reviewing the concentration of fluoride in paediatric toothpaste. She is oneof the authors of the 1998 UK Adult Dental Health Survey and has chaired a review of dentalworkforce in Wales. She is the leader on the oral health specialist branch of the NationalElectronic Library for Health.

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to express their thanks to the staff from all the dental associations of the EU for their contribution. They would also like to acknowledge and thank: The dental associations of 28 EU/EEA countries and Romania The dental councils of several countries The Secretariat of the EU DLCDr William Allen (Dent-Ed)Rob AndersonMs Nadia Costacurta

Dr Kenneth Eaton (CECDO)Ann Yeomans The Federation Dentaire Internationale (FDI) The Chief Dental Officers of the EU (CECDO) The European Union of Dentists (EUD) The World Health Organisation (WHO) The Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

EU DLC Brussels Office, Avenue de la Renaissance 1, B - 1000 Brussels, Tel: +32 - 2 736 34 29, Fax: +32 -2 732 54 07

The authors may be contacted at denhealth@cardiff.ac.uk

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