About IADS


Dear Colleagues and Friends,

the IADS was founded in the year 1951 in Kopenhagen/Denmark - thus since more than 53 years it is known to dental students from all over the world, serving as a platform for exchange of knowledge and experiences about dentistry at an international level.

The main goal of IADS always has been to unite the world's dental students, to give them the opportunity to meet and discuss about their education, their profession and their future as a dentist. And a side effect of this were and are livelong friendships between people who would never have met without the Association.

As the only worlwide association for dental students, the main goal of IADS is the representation of the coming members of the dental profession.

Like in every student organization this has not always been very easy. Thanks to several eager students who gave big efforts to run this association it is still alive and well known to lots of colleagues as the IADS Family.

Nowadays the IADS Family is counting 28 country and school members and is glad about its close contact to the FDI (World Dental Federation - the Central Office of IADS is at FDI Headquarters in Ferney-Voltaire in France), to YDW (Young Dentists Worldwide) and to other organizations like the EDSA (European Dental Students Association) or the IFMSA (International Federation of Medical Students' Association) and more.

A six-person Executive Committee is responsible for the management of the Association's affairs. It is their job to realize the ideas and decisions which were made together with the national representatives of the IADS member countries during the IADS meetings.

- President: Ms. Andrea Veitova from Czech Republic
- General Secretary: Ms. Juliane Gnoth from Germany
- Editor: Mr. Michael Ermer from Germany
- Treasurer: Mr. Valeri Nadirashvili from Georgia
- International Exchange Officer: Ms. Magdalena Maciejowska from Poland
- Immediate Past President: Mr. Marc Antal from Hungary

Current Activities

- With its International Students' Exchange Programme (ISEP) IADS made it possible for more than 75 dental students to realize an exchange to a dental faculty of another member country in the period of 2005/2006
- With its Annual World Congress it still provides the unique opportunity to all colleagues to meet at one place on the globe (recent congresses were held in Cape Town/South Africa in 1994, Sao Paulo/Brasil in 1995, Gutenberg/Sweden in 1996, San Juan/Puerto Rico in 1997, Istanbul/Tirkey in 1999, Buggiba/Malta in 2000, Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia in 2001, Sharm El-Sheikh/Egypt in 2002 , Istanbul/Turkey in 2003, Berlin/Germany in 2004, Prague/ Chech Rep. in 2005 and Karthoum/Sudan in 2006.)
- The IADS E-mail group is used by more than 400 students and dentists, where dental cases and news about dentistry are being discussed
- Through the SCORE (Standing Committee on Research and Education - created during the IADS Congress in Egypt in 2002) dental science and education shall become more important in the future of IADS - several programmes have been started, e.g. the collection of a database of all postgraduate courses at dental faculties in the whole world in order to present them on the IADS website
- The IADS Newsletter (the Summer Edition 2007 is going to be distributed during and after the next congress) which shall inform about what happened in the dental world

Future Goals

Since the last congress in Sudan 2006 the current Executive Committee is working hard in order to settle a structure which shall provide a safer continuity of IADS engagement for the future.

By this, following Executive Committees shall be relieved of lots of basic work after their election. And by this their service and the representation of their colleagues shall become even more the midpoint of their work.

But never forget, the Association is your Association, it depends on everybodie's contribution!

We are also looking forward to having the Young Dentists Worldwide with us and so both the Congress Committee and the IADS Executive Committee hope to make it an unforgettable week in for all our participants.

We hope the congress in Hungary will be an unforgettable experience for all of the participants, and we can show you both, the IADS and also the Hungarian spirit.

"Let your life change, grab the spirit!"

For more information about IADS please visit www.iads-web.org.