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CDA is an association of Dental Organisations which aims to improve dental and oral health in Commonwealth Countries by raising the skills of practitioners and increasing awareness of oral health. It was formed in 1990.

Aims and Activities: "To develop and promote strategies to improve oral health care; to encourage the training of appropriate personnel, to serve as a forum for the exchange of ideas, professional information and the emerging concept of oral health; to address problems of professional isolation in the non-industrialised Commonwealth countries; to stimulate continuing professional education."

CDA Web Site: The CDA (UK) Web Site was created in order to provide an international up to date facility for promulgating information about the Commonwealth Dental Association

	Dr S Prince Akpabio OBE OFR Emeritus Founder President
	Sonny Akpabio graduated from (UCL) London University in 1956. He was awarded the Gibbs Travelling Scholarship, in 1964, to undertake a three-month epidemiological study in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria and Ghana. In 1970 he gained an MDS (London) degree. In 1982 he was appointed WHO Consultant and Member of the WHO Expert Panel on Oral Health. In 1991, Sonny Akpabio, with others, formed the Commonwealth Dental Association and was elected its Founder President. In 1996 he was awarded the OBE by HM The Queen for services to medicine and dentistry internationally. In 1999, he was awarded the Roll of Distinction of the British Dental Association for outstanding services to UK Dentistry; in this year, also, he was appointed Hon Senior Research Fellow in Oral Health at the University of London. He served previously as the CDA Executive Secretary (1994-2003) following his term as Founder President (1991-1994). He is no longer a Member of the CDA Executive Committee.

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