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With representation of many professional areas, entities from national and international authorities and private enterprise, the new ABO Board of Directors took office February 5 th of 2010, in a ceremony which gathered 500 guests at the Ouro Minas Palace Hotel in Belo Horizonte , Minas Gerais State . Dr. Newton Miranda de Carvalho, a dentist from Minas Gerais, took office as the new President of the National Executive Council (CEN) for the 2010-2013 management.
The dentist Manoel Jesus Rodrigues Mello, from Ceará State, took office as the Vice-President; Marco Aurélio Blaz Vasques, from Rondônia State, as the General Secretary; and Wesley Borba Toledo, from Brasilia, Federal District, as the General Treasurer. Also took office the new Regional Vice-Presidents, Members of the National Council Fiscal (CFN) and substitutes. The complete list can be found in the entity website ( www.abo.org.br ).
Attended the ceremony representatives of the ABO Sections Rio Grande do Norte, São Paulo, Ceará, Rio Grande do Sul, Tocantins, Paraíba, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Distrito Federal, Mato Grosso, Alagoas, Pará, Pernambuco, Rondônia, Paraná, Amapá and Bahia; as well the ABO Regionals Montes Claros, Juiz de Fora, Contagem, Muriaé, Itajubá, Ipatinga, Taguatinga and Pouso Alegre.
Highlight to the presence of some important authorities from the Brazilian scenery such as Gilberto Pucca Junior, Chief Dental Officer oh Ministry of Health, representing the Brazilian President; the National Deputy Rafael Guerra, from the Parliamentary Health Board and First Secretary of the Federal Chamber, representing the Governor of Minas Gerais; Marcelo Teixeira, the Health Secretary of Belo Horizonte representing the Mayor. As well as the Federal Council Dentistry President, Ailton Morilhas; all holders of Regional Dentistry Councils from different parts of the country; APCD (São Paulo Dentists Association) President, Silvio Cechetto, besides some representatives from the Brazilian industry, trade union, universities and some more representative categories.
From the International scenery, the emphasis is for Roberto Vianna, Brazilian President of FDI; Orlando Monteiro, Portuguese dentist and president elect of FDI; Adolfo Rodriguez, from Dominican Republic, president of the Latin American Regional Organization.
At the ceremony, when Dr. Newton Miranda de Carvalho took office, the emphasis of the speech was the call of his peers to work, saying that he accepted the challenge “because I hold tight to Dentistry, but with the eyes staring at the future”. Check:
PICTURE: Sarita Coraçari
Miranda de Carvalho Family: Maurício, Newton, Flávio (dentists), Newton Jr., Rosângela (prosthetic) and Juliane
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“Ladies, gentlemen and dear friends.
My first words are of gratitude to all of you who came here to give your prestige and to highlight this ceremony.
Certainly, here are the outstanding representative from the industry, from the business, from the government and the Dentistry category. I would also like to thank those who believed in my humble desire of serving others and have decided to walk on my side with the purpose of making a careful diagnose and a good treatment to the harm that worries the Brazilian Dentistry and has also been penalizing our colleagues and the citizens in need of dental treatment. For those who are part of our party, I would like to thank from the bottom of my heart and call to get down to business. |
| To my family, my children Mauricio, Juliane, Flavio and Newton Junior, my grandaughter Julia and specially my wife Rosangela, I owe a special gratitude for their understanding that I take away from our living together a big part of our time, in order to serve the Dentistry field with integrity, as I have done. I would also like to thank the workers from the Brazilian Dental Association and all those from my office, who have helped me to accomplish this mission. I would also like to thank Oral-B, our sponsor in this ceremony.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have my arms tighten holding to the Dentistry and my eyes staring at the future. And that is the reason why I accepted the challenge to work based upon four premises: to support all the Brazilian Dental Associations that have been seeing their problems worsen day by day, whose members are unhappy with our low efficacy in giving solutions to their needs; support to all social actions to which we should always be available as a citizen's duty; support to the government actions either supporting the legislation or to partnerships that lead to a high standard results; and support to the industry and commerce to ensure they will play their role of producing goods and foreign exchange to our country. Here I also include the realization of the FDI Salvador Congress 2010 that will uplift our industry and our science.
Looking at these premises is how we intend to work. What calls our attention is the fact that we are 3% of the world population, but we are 19% of the dentists in the world. This makes us think about our duty to be the powerful transformers of this scenery that flows to a very heated professional business in all direction:
- Many universities that are created in order to attend political but not social demands. As a consequence, they are concentrated in large urban centres performing as killer competitors among themselves and deteriorating the quality of education;
- A great number of professional departures because of the lack of opportunities for competition;
- Great concentration of professionals in these urban centres where the universities are making huge salaries and incompatible revenue with the cultural and scientific level of the dentist;
- Killer and cannibalistic competition, which creates conflicts and gives the feeling that our category is not doing its homework.
However, within this scenery, some encouraging solutions have already aroused such as the creation and the introduction of national policies for the oral health, where some spotted actions are being gathered together by Gilberto Pucca, such as the Brazilian Smiling Programme. Besides some bills obligate the application of 20% of the revenue with health, some actions from the mayor, such as the Mayor of Belo Horizonte and others.
From our part, the Dentistry is trying to be better organized. We have noticed that working together is the only way we can solve our problem. This objective of working together and of having a Brazilian Dental Association for All shall be followed restlessly, with all our strength. The honour presence of the President of APCD (São Paulo Dentists Association) here today is the clear proof that the solution should follow this way.
May God enlighten us all and takes us to the right direction.
Thank you very much!“ |
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