FDI Annual World Dental Congress 2016

FDI and its local partners are looking forward to welcoming delegates from all over the world to historic city of Poznań, Poland, for the 2016 FDI Annual World Dental Congress (AWDC) in September 2016. It demonstrates our determination to ensure a good worldwide balance alternating in the last decade between the Americas1, Asia-Pacific2 and Europe3.

Poland’s sustained economic growth over last few years is reflected in a lively market for dental equipment and services valued at nearly €2.2 billion in 2013. Demand for dental services, both national and foreign, is growing rapidly, with a private dental sector estimated at €884 million and growing between 20% and 30% year-on-year. The country has some 30,000 qualified dentists (nearly 80% of whom are women dentists) and an estimated 23,000 dental practices.

Now in its 104th year, the AWDC is one of the world’s oldest international events, created by one of the world’s oldest medical-sector organizations, and a must attend in the dental calendar. Characterized as ‘intentionally international”, It has acquired a reputation as a meeting point for exchanging of ideas and transferring knowledge, regularly bringing together renowned speakers from over 30 countries. It also hosts the World Oral Health Forum to debate the burning issues of oral health policy and practice.

The World Dental Exhibition has been an integral part of the FDI Annual World Dental Congress ever since 1929, when an Oral Health Exhibition first took place in association with the 23rd FDI Annual Session in Utrecht (Netherlands). Dental exhibitions play an essential role for dentists and other oral health practitioners: where else but at a dental exhibition can they find and examine the latest in technology and products to recommend to patients?