 ABO' s history
The beginning of everything
The foundation of the Latin American Dentistry Federation (FOLA – Federação Odontológica Latino-Americana) in Chile in 1917 indicates that The National ABO was most likely founded around the same year, under the name of Brazilian Dentistry Federation (FOB – Federação Odontológica Brasileira). The Brazilian Dr. Augusto Coelho e Souza, appointed as vice president of the Latin American organization, seemed to have encouraged our professionals to follow the associative paths, founding something equivalent with nationwide coverage.
The Brazilian Dentistry Federation (FOB) carried out a work that considering those conferences promoted with some regularity, was already based on what nowadays represents one of the cornerstone of ABO's mission. There is evidence that professional growth and qualifications were, at that time, object of a very important mission.
Moreover, there was also evidence of a strong talent to influence the fates of the profession. The period that it is worth mentioning is that around late 30's and early 40's when Dr. Pedro Paulo Penido, an important figure in the Brazilian Dentistry history, was president of FOB. Under his lead, the organization seems to have experienced one of the most vigorous moments of its course still not entirely documented. Among other initiatives, Dr. Penido, who was an expert in Pediatric Dentistry, participated in the foundation of the Dentistry Studies Center of Minas Gerais, currently ABO/Minas Gerais. In the 60's, an explanatory memorandum attributed to him led the president of Brazil at that time, Juscelino Kubitschek, to create the Federal Board of Dentistry and its Sectionals. ‘
According to reports, it happened in a deliberate meeting that took place during the 4 th Brazilian Dentistry Congress around 1947 in Pernambuco, that the decision to adopt the name Brazilian Dentistry Association came up. The reason for the change in names would be related to the need to distinguish the nature of the associative work more specifically related to labor union activity practiced by the National Dentistry Federation (FNO). The official change must have been made only 2 years later, in 1949, the accepted date as the start point of the Brazilian Dentistry Association.
From 1949 to 1962, period shown as a more precise reference for the adoption of the current identity, there is a new information gap that hinders us to trace a path. What we know is that the change of names occurred during the 2 nd Mario Badan's Endodontics International Week that took place in Poços de Caldas, supported by the Minas Gerais Dentistry Association. It was also during the Deliberative Board that the name Dentistry Brazilian Association (ABO) was adopted. Dr. Paulo Amaral, the president of the Minas Gerais Dentistry Association then, proposed and supported the indication of the term “association” as being something more representative and stronger than “union”.
In fact, the identity was kindly given away by ABO/Rio de Janeiro that had been using it since 1943. The “carioca” section, thus, was the only one that did not need to change names and, at the same time, was the first to automatically adapt to a system of standardization.
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