The European Association of Dental Public Health (EADPH) was founded in 1996 as an international and independent science-based forum for professionals having a special interest in dental public health and community dentistry.
Dental Public Health is the science and art of preventing oral diseases, promoting oral health, and improving quality of life through the organized efforts of society. This concerns not only actions directed at populations as a whole, but also at groups and individuals who make up populations.
The Objectives of the European Association of Dental Public Health can be summarized as follows:
- to promote effective oral health care and oral health strategies within Europe
- to be an advocate on oral health issues
- to be supportive of oral health initiatives within countries
- to raise the profile of oral health, e.g. by developing links with the European Commission
- to work towards the development, recognition, teaching and academic base of the specialty within Europe
- to promote and initiate research into oral health and health services and encourage the application of research findings into practice
- to promote the publication of research findings for the benefit of members and international organisations
- to promote the international exchange of knowledge, experience and expertise in the field of dental public health
- to work constructively with industry by providing a network of expertise in the evaluation of products and to harmonise advice on products impacting on oral health across Europe
- to work and liaise with other international
organisations in the field of (oral) health
For further information on EADPH, past & future meetings, and activities of Special Interest Groups, please visit the website of EADPH or, alternatively, contact Roos Leroy, the secretary of EADPH.
For information about becoming a member of EADPH, about reduced membership fees and the Borrow Foundation membership grant, please see this website.
