6 Inter-Professional Collaborative Practice – Linkages between Oral Health and

Acknowledgements

The FDI would like to thank Prof. Nermin Yamalik and Dr Ward van Dijk for leading the Collaborative Practice Task Team efforts throughout the preparation phases of this report.

We would particularly like to thank all experts of selected case studies: Ms Rosalyn Davies, Dr Carlos Madrid, Prof. Prathip Phantumvanit, Dr Alexander Tolmeijer and Dr James Zenk, for their active contributions to all discussions and their constructive feedback.

We would further like to thank all members of the Dental Practice Committee: Dr Alexis Campos Nunez, Dr Armando Hernández Ramirez, Dr Sun-Ook Pak, Dr Michael Sereny, Dr Bedros Yavru-Sakuk and Prof. Ihsane Ben Yahya and all other experts: Dr Paul Brocklehurst, Prof. Michael Glick, Prof. John S. Greenspan, Ms Lisa Howells, Dr Stuart Johnston, Ms Corrie Jongbloed-Zoet, Dr Daniel M. Meyer, Dr Erica Lynette Wheeler and Prof. David Williams, who attended the preparatory meetings and contributed to this report through constructive suggestions.

We would like also to thank Dr Gerhard Seeberger, Dr SM Balaji, Dr Ira Lamster, Dr Jo Frencken, the late Dr Fannye Thompson, Dr Yavru-Sakuk, Dr Mounir Doumit and Dr Medi Ganibegovic for their useful comments. Thanks also to experts at the American Dental Association and Turkish Dental Association for their valuable comments and suggestions.

FDI would like to thank the Vision 2020 Task Team members Dr Michael Glick and Dr David Williams, as well as our industry partners GC Corporation, Henry Schein, Ivoclar Vivadent, Listerine, Sunstar and Unilever, for initiating and supporting this project.

Finally our thanks go to Dr Tea Collins for her literature review and for her essential contribution to the writing of this document, as well as to Mr Christopher Simpson and Dr Ulrike Matthesius, to Dr Jean-Luc Eiselé for his support and to Ms Isabelle Bourzeix for managing this project and all the preparatory work.

Disclaimer

This report aims to initiate a dialogue among the members of FDI. Its intention is to be descriptive and informative on trends in the field; it is not prescriptive and should not be considered as a statement of FDI policy.