FDI World Dental Federation
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The FDI World Dental Federation, established in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 in 1900 as the Fédération dentaire internationale, is the world's leading organization representing the dental profession
Dentistry
Dentistry is the branch of medicine that is involved in the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders and conditions of the oral cavity, maxillofacial area and the adjacent and associated structures and their impact on the human body. Dentistry is widely considered...

. The FDI currently has 156 member associations from 137 nations and territories, representing almost a million dentists worldwide.
One of the main objectives of FDI is to facilitate the exchange of information among dentists worldwide. To this end the FDI publishes a number of scientific periodicals, including the International Dental Journal, Community Dental Health and Developing Dentistry, as well as organizing the World Dental Congress, held annually in different locations around the world.

Next Congresses will take place in:

*2011 Mexico City (Mexico)
  • 2012 Hong Kong (SAR China)
  • 2013 Seoul (Korea)


Recent congresses were held in:
  • 2000 Paris (France)
  • 2001 Kuala Lampur (Malaysia)
  • 2002 Vienna
    Vienna
    Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

     (Austria)
  • 2003 Sydney
    Sydney
    Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

     (Australia)
  • 2004 New Delhi
    New Delhi
    New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...

     (India)
  • 2005 Montreal
    Montreal
    Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

     (Canada)
  • 2006 Shenzhen
    Shenzhen
    Shenzhen is a major city in the south of Southern China's Guangdong Province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong. The area became China's first—and one of the most successful—Special Economic Zones...

     (China)
  • 2007 Dubai
    Dubai
    Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...

     (United Arab Emirates)
  • 2008 Stockholm
    Stockholm
    Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

     (Sweden)
  • 2009 Singapore
    Singapore
    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

  • 2010 Salvador da Bahia (Brazil)
  • 2011 Mexico City
    Mexico City
    Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

     (Mexico)


The FDI is officially recognized by the World Health Organisation and by the United Nations
United Nations
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 and joins the World Health Profession Alliance together with the International Council of Nurses, the World Medical Association, the International Pharmaceutical Federation
International Pharmaceutical Federation
The International Pharmaceutical Federation or Fédération Internationale Pharmaceutique, abbreviated as FIP, is an international federation of national organisations that represent pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists...

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The FDI currently manages a programme, involving national dental association members of the federation and financed by Unilever, to promote oral health programmes in more than 40 countries worldwide named Live.Learn.Laugh. Included in this list of affiliate societies is the ICOI (International Congress of Oral Implantologists).

The FDI headquarters is located in Geneva
Geneva
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 (Switzerland
Switzerland
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).
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