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You are the new Director of the ERO Working Group-Continuing Medical Education in Dentistry. What are the goals you are considering? Beside Chairing the FDI ERO Working Group-Continuing Medical Education in Dentistry since 2014, I have been appointed as the new FDI Continuing Education Director for Europe right after the FDI 2018 General Assembly in Buenos Aires. Taking over the responsibility of the CE programme directory successfully run by Prof. Dr. Alexandre Mersel, I will support our member NDAs' CE events for them to assume their responsibility to perform their role with respect to the continuing education of the dental profession. Beside supporting our members both by fundamental and clinical practice-based educational activities, I will highlight our motto "Leading the world into optimal oral health" as active representatives of FDI; we need to globally improve sustainable oral health so as to reach our target. And undoubtedly one of these targets is the intent to conduct research into the knowledge about the connection between oral and general health. Therefore besides clinical dental education, we shall be pointing out the vitality of the Continuing Medical Education for the advocacy of global health and raising awareness of the dental profession with respect to the relationship between oral health and general health; one of our program goals is to strongly support improving to way these priorities are addressed by organizing CE events among our NDAs. You attended the FDI Congress in Buenos Aires. How do you assess the quality of the papers presented? What are the topics of interest to oral health specialists? FDI WDC has a broad scope mainly addressing the general practitioners at global level. Aside from the researchbased institution' s congresses, FDI WDC calls clinicians and academics to present their research and cases enabling the publication of the abstracts in the International Dental Journal (IDJ) which is the official peer-reviewed, SCIEindexed journal of FDI. Thus, all abstracts are peer-reviewed and qualified at a required scientific level. Generally, we have submissions under all clinical branches, both scientifically and clinically related abstracts and also prevention and public health-related subjects. However, concerning all the recent submissions most of them are related to clinical cases especially including novel materials and techniques used.