{"id":2159,"date":"2018-02-12T10:32:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T04:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esdo.org\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2018-02-12T10:34:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T04:34:10","slug":"another-dental-chamber-got-recognition-as-mercury-free-dental-chamber-by-bds-and-esdo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/another-dental-chamber-got-recognition-as-mercury-free-dental-chamber-by-bds-and-esdo\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Dental Chamber got Recognition as &#8216;Mercury-Free Dental Chamber&#8217; by BDS and ESDO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>February 11, 2018: &#8216;Rafiza Smart Dental Care&#8217;- A dental chamber in the capital city Dhaka got recognition of being mercury-free.\u00a0This is the second dental chamber that got the &#8216;Mercury-Free Dental Chamber&#8217; recognition in Bangladesh. Earlier in 28 January, 2018, ESDO and BDS in collaboration with World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry and Asian Center for Environmental Health\u00a0 inaugurated the program as a part of their vibrant campaign to ban mercury from dentistry in Bangladesh. Dr. Alim Al Razee (Aalif), the principal dentist of the dental chamber was provided with a sticker logo denoting &#8216;Mercury-Free Dental Chamber&#8217; for his chamber.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2162\" src=\"http:\/\/esdo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/e-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/e-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/e-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/e-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/e-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/e-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2163\" src=\"http:\/\/esdo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/b-4-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/b-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/b-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/b-4-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/b-4-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/b-4.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2160\" src=\"http:\/\/esdo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/a-3-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/a-3-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/a-3-768x588.jpg 768w, https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/a-3-1024x783.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/a-3-150x115.jpg 150w, https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/a-3.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2161\" src=\"http:\/\/esdo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/d-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/d-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/d-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/d-2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/d-2-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/d-2.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>ESDO in collaboration with BDS started its mercury-free dentistry initiatives in Bangladesh since 2013. In line with this, dental chamber visit and mercury-free dental chamber declaration is an worthwhile approach to encourage dentists for practicing mercury-free dentistry as well as to let people know the best choice for them is mercury-free dental treatment. After visiting a good number of dental chambers in country the mercury-free dental chambers will be awarded certificate through a prestigious ceremony. The main objective of this dental chamber visit initiative is to make an ultimate call for the ban of mercury amalgam in dentistry.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Earlier in 2017, BDS declared and set target to phase out dental mercury amalgam by 2018 in Bangladesh. On may 6, 2017 in a workshop entitled &#8220;Mercury-Free Dentistry: Way Forward&#8221; this declaration was made.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 11, 2018: &#8216;Rafiza Smart Dental Care&#8217;- A dental chamber in the capital city Dhaka got recognition of being mercury-free.\u00a0This is the second dental chamber that got the &#8216;Mercury-Free Dental Chamber&#8217; recognition in Bangladesh. Earlier in 28 January, 2018, ESDO and BDS in collaboration with World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry and Asian Center for Environmental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions\/2166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}