2024 Smile Around the World Launch &World Oral Health Day Celebration in China

Chinese Stomatological Association celebrated World Oral Health Day and the Smile Around the World initiative in Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province of China.

The event took place in a local school in Hanzhong City of Shaanxi Province in China, where Assist. Prof. Nikolai Sharkov, FDI’s President-elect, gave opening remarks alongside representatives from FDI’s leadership, CSA, and partner 3M Oral Care. The ceremony welcomed national health officers, local government officials, 70 Standing Council Members of CSA, and over 1000 elementary school students from Hanzhong Dongchen Foreign Language School.

After the opening ceremony, various oral health education activities were followed, including oral health lectures, toothbrushing demonstrations and painting, to name a few. FDI commends CSA for implementing the Smile Around the World initiative in China for the fifth time and for coinciding it with WOHD, amplifying the message that a “A HAPPY MOUTH… is a happy body”.