We are pleased to announce that the 1^st International conference on fluorescence based diagnostic of oral diseases will be held in Montpellier France, from 20 to 21 September, 2012.

 
           The congress will take place in the Dental Faculty of University Montpellier1. The Dental Faculty is easily linked to the downtown of Montpellier by a direct tramway line (20 min.) and offers an excellent environment for a successful scientific meeting. It is organized one week after the PEF IADR meeting of Helsinki. 

 

           The development of non-invasive and accurate methods for real-time screening and diagnosis of oral diseases would have great potential for improving early detection of neoplastic changes, dental caries and periodontal diseases and also to improve treatments.

           In the past two years an impressive number of articles were published or presented in international conferences. We realize that there is no such a conference focused on this topic, despite its high medical relevance. The primary aim of this scientific meeting will be to gather experts from all over the world to discuss the state of the art in all aspects of fluorescence based diagnostics of oral diseases and their applications. The conference targets researchers from universities, research institutes and companies, and also students, who apply fluorescence-based technologies and fluorescent products in their research. The meeting will be highly multidisciplinary and will bring together scientists working in areas such as chemistry, physics, biology, epidemiology, ethics and evidently in cancerology, medicine and dentistry.

Finally, we do hope that this conference will be heard as a message by the instances and health insurances on the high medical interest and need to support this new field.

The importance of this conference is revealed by the following questions.

Why oral diseases?

The oral cavity is the most accessible of the body cavities. The oral mucosa is either keratinized or non-keratinized and its structure varies in different area. Its colour variations are classically used in medicine to estimate the health of the patient. Hence the oral cavity is ideal to use for fluorescence based diagnostic methods.

Oral Cancer diagnostics and  therapy?

The diagnostics of early neoplastic lesion using autofluorescence variation is more and more used in developed countries. Recently fluorescence based methods were used to assist surgical resection of oral lesions reducing to 0% the recurrence of oral cancer.

Caries diagnostics?

Fluorescence based caries diagnostic systems help detecting caries at the earliest possible stage, hence the most appropriate treatment plans can be designed for patients. Fluorescence based measurements, together with conventional diagnostic tools and valuable professional judgment, will help monitoring suspect areas over time and treating them with preventive therapy. In this field many devices are already on the market and their clinical evaluation is now needed.

Periodontal disease?

As caries diagnosis , periodontal diseases concerned  millions of people and  new fluorescence based methods, even  still to be validated, could improve the diagnostic accuracy, the time consuming and  the useful interactive communication between the patient and the dentist. Dental faculties around the world could modify their pedagogic approach both for caries and periodontal diseases

Fluorescence based diagnostic for low resource countries ?

The development of oral cancer in low resource countries is a health challenge which needs new low-cost diagnostic methods.  The new hand held fluorescence based diagnostic  methods represent a unique historic opportunity for the entire world to re-evaluate the medical and public health response to the oral cancer challenge. A key factor is the recent emergence of multimodal optical imaging systems, simultaneously providing wide-field and high-resolution optical imaging, coupled with fluorescence based diagnostics.

Why Teledentistry using fluorescence based diagnostic?

Fluorescence based diagnostic systems can be the base for the development of teledentistry. Australia is evaluating the use of a magnifying visible and fluorescence camera as the core of a teledentistry system. The combination of visual inspection and fluorescence aid diagnostic is increasing the reality of the system.  Such a teledentistry system can be extended to any country suffering a lack of dentist in remote locations.

Herve Tassery, Congress President.

Frédéric Cuisinier, ICFOD President

 

 

 

1^st international conference on fluorescence-based diagnostic of oral diseases

Montpellier, France September 20^th and 21^th 2012

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