Saturday, February 5, 2022
3PM to 4:30PM ET
Our Lecturers:
Dr. Jaime Edelson
Mexico
Dr. Jaime Edelson was born in Mexico city may 19, 1955. Finished Dental School at the Universidad Tecnológica de México in February 1978 and did a 2 years Postgrad Residency Program in Family Dentistry at the University of Connecticut, Health Center in Farmington CT from 1978 to 1980.
He joined the Mexican Dental Association (ADM) in 1982 and has participated as a national and international lecturer and served in many ADM’s Executive Committees, including past President 2009/2011. During his presidency he created the ADM Foundation (Fundación ADM, IAP) in charge of the social programs of the ADM.
He was cochair of the WADC of the FDI in September 2011 in Mexico city where he was elected councilor to the FDI for a 3 years term and reelected in India for a 2nd term to finish in the summer of 2017. He is a member of the FDI’s Task Team for Vision 20/20 and World Oral Health day 2017.
On November 16, 2016 he promoted and was successful to pass a law on mandatory brushing in Public Kindergarten and Primary Public Schools in Mexico City’s house of representatives.
He is a member of the ADM, FDI, ICD Chapter Mexico, PFA and ADI among other distinguished organizations. He received in 2005 the ADM’s highest honor: “Cum Laude for Continuing Education award”.
Dr. Edelson practices Family Dentistry with emphasis in Implant Dentistry and Oral Rehabilitation in Mexico City since 1980.
Dr. Linda Greenwall
United Kingdom
Dr; Greenwall is a Prosthodontist and Specialist in Restorative Dentistry. She lectures in the UK and internationally on tooth whitening, aesthetic dentistry and practice management. As well as running a multidisciplinary private practice in Hampstead, London, where she works with a specialist team in the practice (endodontist, periodontist, implant surgeon, oral surgeon and orthodontist), she is a founder member and past Chair of the British Dental Bleaching Society (2008-2013), past chair of the Alpha Omega Society (2012/13), Editor-in-Chief of the journal Aesthetic Dentistry Today, and is past President of the Metropolitan London Branch of the British Dental Association (2015/2016). In March 2016 she was awarded the FMC Award for Outstanding Contribution to Dentistry.
Her first book, Bleaching Techniques in Restorative Dentistry, won the award for Best New Dental Book in 2001 – the new edition of this book, Tooth Whitening Techniques, was published in May 2017. Her book Success Strategies for the Aesthetic Dental Practice was published by Quintessence in 2011 together with Practice Management Consultant Dr Cathy Jameson. She has written many papers for scientific journals.
In June 2017 she was honoured by the Queen in her birthday honours to receive the British Empire Medal for her Service to Dentistry in the UK and Abroad. The medal ceremony was held on 17 November 2017 at the Tower of Lonhow to keep children safe with the dental practice from the British Dental Associationdon and then she attended the Garden Party at Buckingham Palace in 2018.
In 2011, Dr Greenwall established the Dental Wellness Trust Charity which has the motto “Oral Health through Dental Wellness. The charity runs innovate oral health programmes to the less fortunate Communities and reaches 15 000 children daily in the townships of South Africa as well as oral health programmes with refugees and in the UK they are working in schools in Luton, London and Paddington.
Resources
WHO guidelines: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241548649
How to keep children safe with the dental practice from the British Dental Association: https://alliancefororalhealthacrossborders.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Childprotectionandthedentalteam_v1_4_Nov09.pdf
Safeguarding Children Policy: https://alliancefororalhealthacrossborders.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Safeguarding-Children-POLICY.pdf