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BOGOTA, Colombia — A Colombia-based foundation announced the new edition of the III Latin American Dental Congress, an event that has markedly grown in scientific quality of its lectures and the offers of new products at the commercial dental exhibition.

The III Latin American Dental Congress will present two days of international speakers from countries such as the US, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Colombia. Among them are well-recognized lecturers in implants, aesthetics and periodontics, among many other specialties.

The congress will take place September 1 - 3, 2011 in Cartagena, in the Caribbean region of the Colombian cost, and considered one of the most beautiful cities in the Americas. The colonial town of San Juan de Puerto Rico is often referred to as a small-size Cartagena.

Some of the speakers that will participate in the III Latin American Dental Congress are Alvaro Ordóñez, a Miami-based implants expert who works with Dr. Michael Pikos in Tampa, FL and is the ICOI director for Latin America; Sergio Cacciacane, a well known Barcelona, Spain-based implants specialists who developed the ESI Clinics and is the AAID representative for Latin America; Colombian Ivan Herrera, probably the foremost expert on pharmacological implications in dentistry in Latin America; Mirko Villarroel, from the Universidad Estatal Paulista, in Sao Paulo, Andres Duque, president of the Colombian Periodontics Association, and Nelson Loaiza, one of the most renowned experts in resins.

Other recognized speakers are doctors Hector Rodriguez (Spain), Sergio Kohen (Argentina), Enrique Jadad (Colombia), Andres Gaete (Chile), Adan Yañez (México), and Gonzalo Arana or Felipe Vieira (Colombia), among others.

The Latin American Dental Congress is part of the mission of the Smiles for Colombia Foundation, which was created to provide comprehensive care and basic education, health, recreation, sports, culture and employment to disadvantaged populations.

Smiles for Colombia Foundation was created by a group of dentists who focus a great deal of their practices in improving the oral health of the population, knowing that oral health is the basis for integral wellbeing.

All profits obtained from the 3rd Latin American Dental Congress will be invested in dental health promotion and health prevention programs, in placing prosthetics to the elderly, and in renovating dental clinics in rural areas, and purchasing dental equipment and materials to improve the quality and capacity of these clinics.

For more information, please visit www.congresodentalcolombia.com

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