Unilever to provide 12,500 patients with dental check-up voluntarily
Friday, 2 November 2007
FE Report
Unilever Bangladesh Ltd and Bangladesh Dental Society (BDS) will jointly organise 'Pepsodent Bangla-desh Dental Society Oral Health Day 2007' on November 16.
On this day, over 300 member doctors of BDS will provide voluntary service for free dental check-up to 12,500 registered patients, it was told at a press conference Thursday.
Patients will be registered through CityCell help line Support. The event will be held in all the 64 districts of the country on a single day. Interested persons are requested for registration by calling the number: 01199176617.
Naushad Chowdhury, Brands and Development director, Rajeeb Bhattacharjee, Product Group Manager, Risalat Siddique, Management Trainee for Pepsodent, Shah Newaz, Activation Manager, of Unilever Bangladesh Ltd, and Ashraf Hussain, president, Alia Sultana, vice President, Raquibul Hossain Rumi, vice president, and Niaz Ahmed Chowdhury, secretary General, of BDS attended the press conference.
Pepsodent-BDS Oral Health Day 2006 was organised first time in Bangladesh in June 2006. Over 250 dentists of BDS provided free dental checkups to 10,181 registered patients all over the country last year, organisers said.
They said the event promises to benefit even larger population this year.
The organisers said Pepsodent has been carrying out various programmes over the last one decade to improve oral hygiene awareness among general people in the country. The programmes include Secondary and Primary School Awareness, Dental Health Week and Dental Camp.
Pepsodent carries out frequent researches and innovations as a part of its continuous quality improvement for its product, they said.
The organisers said both FDI (Federation Dentaire Internationale) and BDS have given their endorsement to Pepsodent. FDI is an organisation consisting of 09 million dentists in 134 countries across the globe.
They said Unilever and FDI, known as World Dental Federation, have launched a global initiative, called "Live Learn Laugh" in 2006 with an aim to increase oral health promotion and education in the developing nations.
Unilever Bangladesh Ltd and Bangladesh Dental Society (BDS) will jointly organise 'Pepsodent Bangla-desh Dental Society Oral Health Day 2007' on November 16.
On this day, over 300 member doctors of BDS will provide voluntary service for free dental check-up to 12,500 registered patients, it was told at a press conference Thursday.
Patients will be registered through CityCell help line Support. The event will be held in all the 64 districts of the country on a single day. Interested persons are requested for registration by calling the number: 01199176617.
Naushad Chowdhury, Brands and Development director, Rajeeb Bhattacharjee, Product Group Manager, Risalat Siddique, Management Trainee for Pepsodent, Shah Newaz, Activation Manager, of Unilever Bangladesh Ltd, and Ashraf Hussain, president, Alia Sultana, vice President, Raquibul Hossain Rumi, vice president, and Niaz Ahmed Chowdhury, secretary General, of BDS attended the press conference.
Pepsodent-BDS Oral Health Day 2006 was organised first time in Bangladesh in June 2006. Over 250 dentists of BDS provided free dental checkups to 10,181 registered patients all over the country last year, organisers said.
They said the event promises to benefit even larger population this year.
The organisers said Pepsodent has been carrying out various programmes over the last one decade to improve oral hygiene awareness among general people in the country. The programmes include Secondary and Primary School Awareness, Dental Health Week and Dental Camp.
Pepsodent carries out frequent researches and innovations as a part of its continuous quality improvement for its product, they said.
The organisers said both FDI (Federation Dentaire Internationale) and BDS have given their endorsement to Pepsodent. FDI is an organisation consisting of 09 million dentists in 134 countries across the globe.
They said Unilever and FDI, known as World Dental Federation, have launched a global initiative, called "Live Learn Laugh" in 2006 with an aim to increase oral health promotion and education in the developing nations.