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About us

The idea of a European Dental Hygienists' Federation was born in 1998 at the IFDH Congress in Florence. The EDHF was then founded on May 5, 2001 in Utrecht as a non-profit federation. The statutes were signed by the founding member countries: Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland. Slovakia und the Czech Republick have successively joined.

The establishment of this European Federation is a historical milestone fundamental to the advancement of the dental hygiene profession in Europe. Several reasons for creating the EDHF were to form a pioneer structure that unites the members of the individual countries and to protect and defend their interests and legitimate rights. Furthermore, the EDHF intends to standardize the rights, duties, qualifications and fundamental role, of dental hygienists in Europe.

These are some of the EDHF objectives:

  • Protect, respect and promote the practice of dental hygiene in all European countries.
  • Encourage interest in the dental hygiene profession in all European countries.
  • Establish and maintain relationships with other associations in all matters concerning dental health.
  • Represent, manage, defend and promote the professional, educational and financial interests of the member countries.
  • Encourage solidarity among European dental hygienists.
  • Standardize academic education for dental hygienists in all European countries.

Activities:

  • Our annual meeting was in Bratislava, Slovakia in 2007 and will be in Lucerne, Switzerland in 2008.
  • The EDHF is in the process of organizing a meeting with heads of the dental hygiene schools and dental hygiene school teachers in Europe. The goal is to increase, build-up and expand a center of knowlegde in dental hygiene.
  • Our Austrian representative, Claudia Luciak-Donsberger, is an observer to the Council of European Chief Dental Officers (CEDCO) bi-annual scientific meetings.
  • We send a representative to auxiliary meetings.
  • The EDHF continues to recruit new members by propogating the EDHF as an entity and informing them of our goals.
 
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