Among the EU Member States, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Romania and Estonia all reported more than one dentist for every 1 000 inhabitants in 2021 (source : Eurostat, August 2023).
The decision has been notified on 29 June. According to the General Dental Council : “Around 17% of all dentists on the UK register have European qualifications and made up 37% of all dentists who joined the register in 2022”.
According to the latest available figures, the cross-border oral healthcare is a drop in the bucket in terms of total volume of dental treatments provided at home.
According to the last Eurostat survey, “In 2021, the situation for dental care was similar though slightly worse than the unmet medical needs, as 4.4% of the children living in households with children didn’t receive the dental care they needed”.
FEDCAR’s Regulators and Competent Dental Authorities have recalled, in a common declaration adopted at Madrid under the Consejo Dentists’ presidency, that the recognition of dental qualifications obtained outside the European Union must at a strict minimum correspond to the applicable European requirements (Directive 2005/36 EC), knowing that some prudent countries apply measures going beyond this minimum standard.
FEDCAR is the Federation of European Dental Competent Authorities and Regulators.
We bring together European orders and bodies responsible for the regulation, the registration and the supervision of dental practitioners. We share information and good practices on the regulation of dentists and aim at promoting common positions to the EU legislator regarding initiatives and legislation at European level which affect the regulation of dental professionals.
Spring meeting in Roma, May 2022, under the chair of the FNOMCeO/Federazione Nazionale degli Ordini dei Medici Chirurghi e degli Odontoiatri.
FEDCAR members along with dental students from EDSA and with Canadian colleagues from Ordre des Dentistes du Québec et from Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario.
FEDCAR delegates at the Porto meeting, hosted by the Ordem dos Médicos Dentistas, May 2019.
About FEDCAR
FEDCAR is the Federation of Europeen Dental Competent Autorities and Regulators bringing together European chambers, councils and public bodies responsible for the regulation, the registration and the supervision of dental practitioner.
Following informal meetings since 2000, FEDCAR – under the former name of “CODE” – was formally created on the 3rd April 2004 by the Roma Declaration.
The mission of Regulators and Competent Authorities is to ensure at the domestic level that practitioners cope with their professional duty and deontology.
Contrary to associations or trades, Regulators and Competent Authorities in FEDCAR deal with any practitioner whatever is the form of his or her exercise: company, independent worker, employed worker in hospital or in university, general practitioner or specialist.
Our Objectives, Code & Position Papers
FEDCAR’s objectives are:
> To promote patient safety across Europe
> To promote a high standard of dental regulation and of dental care in Europe
> To contribute to the safe facilitation of dental professional mobility within the EU
Our Code of Conduct details this threefold concern.
The Code is available on a permanent basis on this site (see the sections at the beginning of the web-site).
We also share information and good practices on the regulation of dentists and we aim to develop opinions and statements on new initiatives and legislation at European level which affect the regulation of dental professionals.
In 2016 our position-paper regards the risks associated with the use of tooth whitening without dental supervision in Europe.
In 2017 our position-papers regard :
the use by dental regulators of the Alert Mechanism in Europe regarding sanctions adopted against a dental practitioner (in English and in French languages);
the exclusion of Public Health professions from the scope of application of draft Directive on a proportionality test before adoption of new regulation of professions, or alternatively, a more balanced approach in this draft Directive of the specificity of Public Health professions as the Legislator already did in other pieces of EU legislation (in English and in French languages).
FEDCAR’s Secretariat is located in Brussels, hosted by the French Chamber of Dentists.
FEDCAR holds two plenary meetings a year: a Spring meeting in the country which holds the Presidency and an Autumn meeting in Paris.
For further information on FEDCAR & on the conditions for joining it, please contact:
info@fedcar.eu.
Members of the FEDCAR board
Dr Massimo Ferrero
President of FEDCAR for 2022
PRESIDENTE DELLA COMMISSIONE ALBO ODONTOIATRI DI AOSTA
Dr Oscar Castro
Chair of FEDCAR for 2023
President of Spanish Dental Council/Consejo Dentistas
Dr Marie-Anne Baudui-Maurel
General Secretary of FEDCAR
Vice-President of French Dental Chamber
Country’s members & partners
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Albania
Order of dentists of Albania
Dr Nikoll Deda
President
info@ussh.org.al
Hungary
Egészségügyi Engedélyezési és Közigazgatási Hivatal
(Office of Health Authorisation and Administrative Procedures)
www.eekh.huZsolt Bélteki
Head of Department (Migration and Human Resources Methodology)
belteki.zsolt@enkk.hu
Spain
Illustro consejo general de odontologos y estomatologos de Espana
Dr. Miguel Angel López-Andrade Jurado & Dr. Nacho Rodríguez Ruiz
Past Chair of FEDCAR
consejo@infomed.es
Switzerland
Société Suisse d’Odonto-stomatologie
Nadine Facchinetti
Lic. en Droit, LL.M.
Suppléante de la responsable de Division
Responsable du projet LPMéd
nadine.facchinetti@bag.admin.ch
Code of Conduct of FEDCAR for European Dentists
“Compliance with the professional rules regarding, in particular, the independence, dignity and honor of the profession, professional secrecy and fairness towards clients and other members of the profession” is a principle that is recognized by the EU judge and that is encouraged by the EU legislator.
The FEDCAR’s members have therefore agreed with common rules of conduct that should run a dentist’s professional activity anywhere in Europe.
EU Office
Conseil national de l’ordre des chirurgiens-dentistes
Chambre française de commerce et de l’industrie
8 avenue des Arts
1210 Bruxelles – Belgium – +32 2 506 88 44
