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Largest World Congress on Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery will be held on May 2019 in Rio de Janeiro The Brazilian College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Traumatology is bringing the event to Brazil
representatives. There will be 157 speakers from almost 80 countries. “We have specialists from India to Brazil, from Chile to Canada. It is a unique opportunity to know what is being done around the world – not only in a region, alike an American or European congress. We are bringing the world of science to Brazil. It’s like when we received the Olympic Games”, enthusiastically says Luiz Marinho. Hard work was needed for this to happen. Only in 1998, the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons included CBCTBMF as a world representative of the specialty to the international community, and since then the CBCTBMF has made proposals to host the event. “Brazil is the country with the second largest number of papers submitted to IJOMS; with the increase in the number of residencies and many Brazilians doing postgraduate courses abroad, we could demonstrate the scientific value of the specialty in Brazil and strengthen our proposal”, explains Marinho.
After several attempts with the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, Brazil receives the 24th edition of the International Conference on Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (ICOMS), a partnership between the Brazilian College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Traumatology (CBCTBMF) and the international institution. The world’s largest event of the specialty will be held from May 21st to 24th 2019 at the Windsor Barra Hotel & Convention Center, Rio de Janeiro. The conference occurs biannually and is the main international forum on current ongoing researches, theories and issues related to oral and maxillofacial surgery for surgeons, residents and related health professionals. According to the oral and maxillofacial surgeon and president of ICOMS, Luiz Marinho, the importance of the event is directly related to the diversity of
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