Annual meetings

Every November the Oral Status Coordination Point holds an annual meeting, which focuses on issues connected with the oral health survey carried out in the respective year. The participants include representatives of dental caries prevention associations, of institutions organising dental caries prevention activities (health insurance funds, provincial governments) and of the Medical Associations.

The papers delivered at the meetings are published.

Focal themes treated so far:

• Dental caries prevention in Austria: Meeting of 1997

• Care for high-risk groups in the context of dental caries prevention: Meeting of 1998

• Orthodontology and prevention: Meeting of 1999

• Dental caries prevention: Plans and strategies: Meeting of 2000

• Caries prevention for adults: Meeting of 2001

• Primary dentition – Care and Prevention: Meeting of 2002

• Caries Decline – Extent and importance for caries prevention. Meeting of 2003

• Integration of group amd individual caries prevention. Meeting of 2004.

• Oral Health in Austria. Results after ten years of oral health surveys. Meeting of 2005.

• Standards for group prevention in Austria. Meeting of 2006

The expert meeting, which will be held in 2007, will deal with the results of the oral health surveys conducted among the six year olds with a special focus on the oral health of children with a migration background.

Commissioned by: Federal Ministry for Health, Family and Youth
Contact: Ms. Gabriele Sax, sax(at)oebig.at
Permanent project