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BANGKOK, Thailand/ ISTANBUL, Turkey: For the third time in five years, the Annual World Dental Congress of the FDI World Dental Federation will be held in an Asian country. An agreement between the Geneva-based dentists’ organisation and the Dental Association of Thailand (DTA) to organise the 2015 congress in Bangkok was signed last week at this year's FDI congress in the Turkish capital of Istanbul, Dental Tribune ONLINE has learned.
It will be the first time that the South-East Asian country will host the prestigious international dental event. According to DTA President Dr Adirek S. Wongsa, who spoke to Dental Tribune on Friday, his organisation has bid to host the congress in Thailand each year since 1999. It will be a unique event that will not only highlight the rapid development of dentistry in Thailand, but also bring all professions in dentistry together, he said. Preparations have already commenced and more information will be released in the upcoming months.
The congress in Bangkok will follow the 2014 edition, which is being organised by the Indian Dental Association and hosted in New Delhi. The FDI’s most recent congresses in Asia were held in Hong Kong and Singapore. The Korean Dental Association won the bid to organise this year’s congress in Seoul in South Korea but the event there was cancelled, and hosted instead by the Turkish Dental Association last week in Istanbul.
The DTA is currently organising its own dental event, the Thailand International Dental Congress, to be held in November this year. According to Wongsa, the event attracts around 3,000 dental professionals each year. Thailand has a workforce of 12,000 dentists.
