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65th Garmisch Dental Excellence
Symposium
Capt Angshu Gurung
The 65th Garmisch dental excellence symposium commenced on the 29th of October to the 3rd of November 2023 in
a small German town called Garmisch- Partenkirchen. Garmisch-Partenkirchen is notoriously famous for its splendid nature ranging from beautiful lakes to mountains. This makes it an ideal location for learning and building new relationships.
The 65th Garmisch dental excellence symposium was mostly tailored for dentists only to attend, so it was a great honour to have been given the opportunity by my CoC to participate in such a prestigious event and to represent the RADC amongst our NATO partners.
On the 29th of October the dental team from Sennelager and two senior RADC dental officers from the UK made their way to Garmisch-Partenkirchen to join the other 80 plus attendees from various NATO countries for the dental excellence symposium.
The five-day dental training event consisted of guest speakers from different NATO countries, presentations, and various hands-on classroom lessons. Some of the
Figure 2: Lt Col Winship giving a presentation on dental fitness statistics.
Figure 1: End of conference group photo with all NATO partners.
Figure 3: Dental Centre Sennelager team at the top of the Zugspitze. Hard work does payoff!
topics on the agenda were implantology, orthodontics, management of soft tissue trauma, operational and deployment dentistry.
As we were in one of the most iconic and popular tourist town in Germany, we thought it would have been disheartening if we left without sampling some of the beautiful attractions it had to offer. On the third
day we set off to travel up the Zugspitze. This is the highest peak of the Wetterstein mountains to take in some of the views.
This was our first time going to the top of a mountain peak, so we were very excited. The view was out of this world.
This conference was good for building team cohesion and learning about NATO capability.
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