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Prepared by Lt Col Dr Shalene Kereshanan, Assistant Secretary MAO

5th February 2010- With

the help of the Sarawak

Convention Bureau, the

MAO was proud to organ-

ise a social gathering aimed

at the Executive Commit-

tee Members and Observ-

ers of the participating

countries of APOS. This

event was held at the Aus-

tralian National Maritime

Museum. This gathering

was an excellent way of

making new acquaintances

and renewing old ties. A

total of 45 guests from the

various APOS countries

attended including the Ma-

laysian High Commis-

sioner to Australia, Dato’

Salman Ahmad and mem-

bers from Malaysian Tour-

ism, Sydney. Guests were

given a complimentary

Puak Kumbu and guided

tour to the Maritime mu-

seum followed by Cock-

tails! The event ended with

many delighted and merry

people who were subjected

to one too many cameras!

Invitation leaflet designed specifi-

cally by Sarawak Convention Bureau.

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MAO hosts Cocktail Evening at the

Maritime Museum

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Special points of interest:

Coctail Dinner for Malaysian

delegates & APOS ECM’s

The Winning Bid!

Delegate boosting by the MAO

committee donning on the

Sarawak Costume

World Village Day

William Proffit’s lecture

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7th IOC/ APOC 2010,SYDNEY

2010 Asian Pacific Orthodontic

Conference, Sydney, australia

Inside this newsletter:

Cocktail Dinner 1

7th IOC 2

APOC Bid 3

Delegate Boosting 4

APOC Village Day 4

Pick of the day! 4

Dato Salman Ahmad giving his

welcome speech to the guests at

the Maritime Museum.

Group photo of the guests with some members of MAO standing

proud with Mr Dickson our friendly

Iban warrior from Sarawak

Prepared by Lt Col Dr Shalene Kereshanan, Assistant Secretary MAO

6th February 2010- The Interna-

tional Orthodontic Congress is

the world's Orthodontic Con-

gress. It is the Congress of the

World Federation of Orthodon-

tists and is held internationally

every 5 years. The recent 2010

Congress was held at the Sydney

Convention & Exhibition Centre

on Darling Harbour, close to the

centre of Sydney. This Congress

was to be grand in all sense of

the word as it incorporated the

7th Asian Pacific Orthodontic

Conference and the 22nd Austra-

lian Orthodontic Congress.

About 4087 including accompa-

nying persons registered for the

Congress. Of these, 3600 regis-

tered as participants inclusive of

Doctors, Dental Auxiliaries and

Dental Technicians. The post-

conference website registered

2200 doctors. Delegates came

from 93 countries and repre-

sented 90 World Federation of

Orthodontists affiliated societies

and associations. The largest

delegations came from, in order,

Australian Society of Orthodon-

tists, American Association of

Orthodontists and followed by

the British Orthodontic Society.

Other major participants were

from Japan, France, China, New

Zealand, Germany and Indone-

sia. All these provided more than

100 delegates.The main purpose

of me attending the Conference

was to attend the Asian Pacific

Orthodontic Society Executive

Meeting as an Observer and to

aid in the bidding for Sarawak to

host the 2014 APOC led by none

other than Dr Noraini Hj. Alwi,

Executive Committee Member

of the APOS representing the

Malaysian Association of Ortho-

dontists.

Tensions were running high even

before I touch ground in Sydney

at noon on 5th February 2010.

While checking in at KLIA, I

find out that the travel agent has

messed up my travel visa online

by exchanging my forename and

my family name. Thanks to the

efficient ground staff of SIA

who managed to solve my prob-

lem online, I was given the green

light to travel. Phew! Breathe a

sigh of relieve! One can only

imagine what Dr Noraini would

do to me had I failed to turn up

in Sydney!

5th to 8th July 2014, Sarawak!

“EmBracing Orthodontic Dis-

covery” was the theme the MAO

had the intention of promoting

during the 7th International Or-

thodontic Congress/ 7th APOC in

Sydney 5th to 9th February 2010.

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Dr Noraini giving her welcome speech

to the guests of MAO at the Cocktail

Dinner .

Performance by native Australian

aboriginal dancers during the offi-

cial opening ceremony

“Embracing

Orthodontic

Discovery”

Prepared by Lt Col Dr Shalene Kereshanan, Assistant Secretary MAO

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2014 APOC BID

Winifred Harding will also look at drawing the borders of the APOS belt to delineate the member countries of the Society within the ‘Asian-Pacific’ belt. This would sim-plify the criteria of accep-tance in future of countries requesting to be members of APOS. The Nepal Orthodontic Society’s request to join

APOS was accepted. The Committee will also look at the request of Sri Lanka join-ing the APOS.

Then the time came for the long awaited bid to host the 2014 APOC. The countries competing were Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. Each country was allowed 10 minute presentation to showcase their strong points. During the presentations, the other representatives of the other 2 competing countries were requested to leave the conference room. The MAO’s winning presentation was carried out proficiently and convincingly by the ECM of Malaysia, Dr Noraini Alwi who certainly did us proud on that day! Amongst our selling point was the support from the Ministry of Health as willing Co-Sponsors, monetary aid from the Sara-

wak State Government amounting to roughly RM 1 million and the provision of sponsorships for 5 well de-served postgraduates from the region to attend the con-ference. Hoorah! Syabas Ma-laysia!

Where money matters were concern, Dr Loh was also given the green- light to pro-ceed with opening a bank account for APOS in Singa-pore. The outgoing President Dr Somchai form Thailand graciously donated USD 2000/xx from the Thai Asso-ciation of Orthodontists. Dr Shane Fryer added that for every orthodontist from APOS that registered for the 7th IOC, USD 25/xx will be donated to APOS, hence the urgent need to open an ac-count for APOS. Dr Loh has also asked the Committee to look into considering a small retaining fee for its member countries for the mainte-nance of APOS in the near future.

Other issues include the col-lective decision by the Com-mittee to register the APOS Office in Singapore at a small reasonable price to APOS and Dr Loh Kai Wah who was voted in as the incoming president of APOS volun-teered to oversee the paper-work required. The other office bearers who were voted in were Dr Kazuo Tanne as the Vice-President (Japan), Dr Girish Karandikar as Treasurer (India) and Dr Tanan Jaruprakom as Secre-tary-General (Thailand).

7th February 2010- The Asian Pacific Orthodontic Society’s (APOS) AGM was held in a cozy meeting room at Park-side G07 in the Convention Centre. It was attended by ECM’s and one observer from each of the participat-ing country. MAO was repre-sented by Dr Noraini Hj. Alwi and Lt Col. Dr Shalene Kere-shanan as the Observer as Maj. (R) Dr Akbar Sham was not able to attend to press-ing commitments from his duty as Dean of the Dental Faculty, UIA. The meeting commenced after the provi-sion of light bites for lunch.

With regards to Taiwan Asso-ciation of Orthodontists (TAO) requests for affiliate membership to APOS, Dr. Tianmin Xu ECM of China Orthodontic Society (COS) extended its government’s wishes that China does not want Taiwan to be repre-sented as a country but in-stead as a region under the name Chinese Taipei. An agreement was however reached on a MOU between COS and APOS on condition (similar to MOU that was signed previously by COS with WFO) that APOS recog-nizes that COS (with the larg-est number of members-over 5000 members) is the repre-sentative of China. With this, TAO maintains its position as an affiliate of APOS under the “One China Principle”. History was in the making when both parties came to an agreement with the Presi-dent of APOS, Dr Somchai from Thailand.

A working party led by Dr

APOC Kuching,

Sarawak 2014-

“be there or be

square”

Dr Noraini with fellow ECM’s prior to the AGM

Right: The winning team with Dr Crissie Santayana,

outgoing Sec. General APOS

Prepared by Lt Col Dr Shalene Kereshanan, Assistant Secretary MAO

Working up to the day of the AGM, the MAO participants of the conference were re-

quested to all join in and as-sists the committee in dele-gate boosting. Members as

best as possible were con-tacted prior to Sydney to as-certain the numbers that

would be attending and if

they would participate in donning the MAO Custom made T-shirt. About 50 T-

Shirts were printed and dis-tributed to those attending on condition that the T-shirts

were donned on the day of

the 6th and 7th February.

No doubt one of the major

attraction of the conference

however were this special

group of ladies led by none

other than Dr Noraini herself

clad in the Sarawak costume

who wore their costumes all

day leading up to the AGM

on the 7th February 2010.

These ladies were the centre

of attraction and the subject

of numerous photography

sessions amongst the partici-

pants of the Congress.

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Village Day, 8th February 2010

Delegate Boosting

lighted this aspect of the congress with the various concurrent sessions. These were the 22nd Australian Orthodontic congress, 7th APOC, Arab Orthodontic soci-ety, British Orthodontic Soci-ety, The European Village Day and the South American village Day. Closer to home,

Dr Wey Mang Chek from Malaysia presented a com-prehensive well researched summary of the Past, Present and Future trends in Ortho-dontics. Well done to Dr Wey for her contributions towards making the village day a suc-cessful one!

The success of any confer-ence will be largely based on its content of Scientific Pro-gramme. The Scientific Pro-gramme was challenging as delegates were faced with difficulties to choose be-tween the quality and variety of the lectures. The World Village Day Program high-

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Lt Col Dr Shalene with the

man himself Bill Proffit !!

The MAO members with

Professor Fraser McDonald

“See you in

Kuching ,

Sarawak for

APOC 2014”

Opening Ceremony: Right to Left, Dr Noraini Alwi Lt Col Dr Shalene, Dr S Adibah Othman and Dr Wey MC

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Dr Wey Mang Chek doing Malaysia proud!

The author on behalf of MAO would like to extend our deepest appreciation to the Sarawak Convention Bureau for their guid-

ance & assistance to MAO for our winning bid! Well Done SCB! Well Done MAO! We look forward towards more smart

partnership Bracing for the future!

Pick of the Day!

Which talks did you go to? Did you find any of the talks useful? These were commons questions posed to me during

the congress. Unfortunately, actively being involved in the bidding process precluded Dr Noraini, Dr Siti, Dr Wey

and me from following the Scientific Programme closely. For me, the pick of the day where talks were concern was

the WFO lecture that followed the opening ceremony by William Proffit giving his view on the new approaches and

new technologies in the practice of Modern Orthodontics! Proffit shed some light into the science behind the latest

approach in diagnostics from concepts of “pitch”, “yaw” and “roll” to the use of cone-beam technology. He also

stressed increasing importance of the soft tissue paradigm in everyday Orthodontics! His take home message for

the day on self -ligating brackets was that all brackets systems must be able to move teeth where you want it and

prevent tooth movement when you don’t want it, pick one that you are comfortable with!