Prof Henno Miethke, second right, along with other senior HMC officials and international speakers during the conference yesterday. PICTURE: T K Nasser
By Noimot Olayiwola/Staff Reporter
More than 300 participants, including internationally renowned specialists in orthodontics from Britain, the US, Germany and the GCC states, are taking part in the HMC’s first Qatar International Orthodontic Conference being held in Doha.
The conference being hosted by the Rumailah Hospital is the first of its kind to be organised in the Gulf and the Middle East to discuss the latest technological inventions and best practices in the field.
Some 13 speakers, including three from Qatar, are to share their knowledge and practice experiences at the event.
The conference aims at shedding lights on the latest technologies and practices currently adopted in orthodontics and how to be harnessed in Qatar within the new Academic Health System (AHS), recently introduced at HMC.
Research papers being presented at the conference also tackle evidence-based practices that contribute in realising the main objective targeting the promotion of dentistry profession in general and orthodontics in particular to the world-class standards.
Speaking to mediapersons yesterday, Rumailah Hospital’s dentistry department chairman Prof Rainer-Reginald Henno Miethke said that it was important to hold such conference in Qatar in order to update orthodontists about their profession, which is already some 100 years old.
Orthodontics section head and conference chairperson Dr Najat al-Sayed said: “The scientific committee has invited several experts and researchers specialising in the field to deliver lectures and update doctors in Qatar and the Gulf with the latest developments and best practices in the field.”
A medical dentistry and orthodontics specialised exhibition is also being organised on the sidelines of the congress.
HMC consultant orthodontist and the congress scientific committee head Dr Shaima Abdul Rahman said: “Such specialised scientific conferences highlight various theoretical and practical diagnostic and therapeutic methods designed to upgrade the clinical performance of orthodontists in particular and dentists at large.”