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Dr. Antonio Albuquerque de Brito Presidente da ABCCMF – Associação Brasileira de Cirurgia Crânio-Maxilo-Facial |
Mensagem do presidente da ABCCMF
De 29 a 31 de agosto desse ano teremos o XVII Congresso Brasileiro de Cirurgia Craniomaxilofacial, na cidade de Campinas/SP. Esse evento marca os 30 anos de existência da ABCCMF, presente, atuante e representante da Cirurgia Craniomaxilofacial e de braços dados com todas as demais profissões e especialidades que se capilarizam com nossa área de atuação. Nosso congresso acontece conjuntamente com o XIV Congresso Brasileiro de Fissuras Lábio Palatinas e Anomalias Craniofaciais e com o 5th Congress Latinamerican Craniofacial Association, e será contemplado com uma grade científica composta por palestrantes nacionais e internacionais da mais alta representatividade.
Para além da ciência, será também um momento precioso de encontros e reencontros.
Contamos com sua estimada presença! Até lá!!
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Cassio Eduardo Raposo do Amaral Presidente da LATICFA – Latinamerican Craniofacial Association |
2024 Joint Cleft and Craniofacial Congress
Organized by:
Latin American Craniofacial Association (LATICFA),
Brazilian Association of Craniofacial Surgery (ABCCMF),
Brazilian Association of Cleft Lip and Palate (ABFLP);
The 2024 Joint Cleft and Craniofacial Congress represents a successful collaboration between the Latin American Craniofacial Association (LATICFA), the Brazilian Association of Craniofacial Surgery (ABCCMF), and the Brazilian Association of Cleft Lip and Palate (ABFLP); three internationally recognized and respected organizations for medical professionals in Latin America and Brazil.
LATIFCA, founded in 2016, has provided support to numerous cleft centers all over South and Central America. Both the ABCCMF, which was founded in 1994 by pioneering first and second generation Brazilian craniofacial surgeons, and the ABFLP, founded in 1969, have been instrumental in promoting a major shift towards a multidisciplinary approach in cleft treatment and rehabilitation.
Although the ABCCMF and the ABFLP were originally created to address different medical specialties, these two organizations, along with the recently founded LATICFA, collaborated at the 2018 Brazilian Congress to form a unique partnership. The 2018 Congress was sponsored and supported by Smile Train, and endorsed by The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, which published a special supplement containing Congress abstracts and papers.1 This Congress represents the largest combined meeting of these organizations since Cleft 2009; organized by SOBRAPAR Hospital, which was the first ever South American international congress of cleft lip, palate and related craniofacial anomalies.2
The 2018 Congress, which featured guest speakers from fourteen countries, along with representatives from the prestigious Smile Train medical advisory board, launched a new era of collaborative work in the cleft field.
The 2024 Joint Cleft and Craniofacial Congress, which is scheduled to take place in Campinas, Sao Paulo, from August 29th to August 31st, will offer one day of pre-meeting courses, followed by two days of official Congress courses. The pre-meeting courses will take place in three conference rooms. One pre-meeting course, primarily organized by the ABCCMF, will focus on orthognathic surgery in cleft and non-cleft patients. The other two pre-meeting courses, organized by Smile Train, will focus on various aspects of cleft care.
One of the conference rooms will feature a full day of discussions on hot topics, new trends, and new devices for training and education, and will include leaders in their respective fields, as organized by Roberto Flores. During morning focus will be given to virtual reality or Simulare (cleft lip, cleft palate or the newest version of alveolar bone grafting) performed by an expert in the field. During afternoon, safety and quality protocols will be discussed among with teams focusing on how to improve safety, patients adherence and prevention of loss to follow up and compliance to longitudinal follow up.
A third conference room will feature a total of eight hours of presentations, divided equally between speech pathology and orthodontics. The primary objectives of the presentations on speech pathology are to support greater collaboration between surgeons and speech pathologists, and create a Smile Train document that will serve as a guide for VPI treatment in cleft patients at any age.
The four hours of presentations regarding speech pathology will include live VPI patient examinations and extensive discussion. Attendees will be divided in groups, and each group will have an opportunity to discuss diagnoses and possible approaches. Depending on time availability, several specific lectures are planned to be presented, along with discussion of findings, workflow, and treatment provided to examined patients.
The primary objective of the four hours of presentations on orthodontics is to introduce cost effective methods to maximize satisfactory treatment outcomes.
The orthodontic presentations can be in group format, as is the case with speech pathology, or can be provided in lecture format on specific important topics as determined by the committee. The goals will be to offer treatment alternatives to nasoalveolar molding (NAM), and address essential topics such as outcomes of low cost hardware devices, challenges in treating patients with extremely low financial resources, and helping cleft centers access alternative solutions that will provide satisfactory treatment outcomes.
The commercial meeting release occurred on August 23th, and gathered companies from all over the country, which are willing to comply and participate, exposing their materials to our professionals.
I believe that the 2024 Joint Cleft and Craniofacial Congress will serve as a model forum for education and collaboration in cleft treatment care, and will present Smile Train as the premier foundation that supports these endeavors and objectives. 3,4
1. Raposo-Amaral CE, Alonso N, Raposo-Amaral CA, Fisher M, Bradley JP. Brazilian Three-Societal Bi-Annual Meeting: ABCCMF, ABFLP, LATICFA. The Journal of craniofacial surgery 2019;30:628.
2. Raposo-Amaral CE, Warren SM. Highlights from the 11th International Congress on Cleft Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies. The Journal of craniofacial surgery 2011;22:781.
3. Raposo-Amaral CE, Denadai R, Alonso N. Three-Dimensional Upper Lip and Nostril Sill Changes After Cleft Alveolus Reconstruction Using Autologous Bone Grafting Versus Recombinant Human Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2. The Journal of craniofacial surgery 2016;27:913-8.
4. Raposo-Amaral CE, Denadai R, Almeida RRG, Marques FF, Lee MM, Raposo-Amaral CA. Does a Premaxillary Setback and Lip Adhesion Have a Negative Impact on Lip Outcome in Bilateral Cleft Patients? The Journal of craniofacial surgery 2017;28:1730-6.
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Dr Geza Laszlo Urmenyi Presidente da ABFLP – Associação Brasileira de Fissuras lábio Palatinas |
Mensagem do presidente da ABFLP
Gostaria de convidá-los a participar do XIV Congresso Brasileiro de Fissuras Lábio Palatinas e Anomalias Craniofaciais (ABFLP) que ocorrera juntamente com o XVII Congresso Brasileiro de Cirurgia Cranio-Maxilo-Facial (ABCCMF) e o 5th Congresso Latinamerican Craniofacial Association (LATICFA). Este evento ocorrera em Capinas -SP no período 28/08/2024 à 01/09/2024.
A junção destas três associações é uma fórmula de sucesso já comprovada em eventos anteriores. Reunindo o que há de melhor e mais moderno neste evento internacional.
Teremos cursos importantes com convidados de renome nacional e internacional em áreas importantes no tratamento das fissuras lábio palatinas e crânio-maxilo-faciais.
Vários convidados nacionais e internacionais de importância científica já confirmaram sua presença nas conferências e palestras. Envie seu trabalho para nosso evento, sua participação é importante para nossa área de atuação.
O objetivo principal deste evento é agregar os profissionais da área de atuação, tornando o evento mais participativo e abrindo novos caminhos para os desafios. Promovendo troca de conhecimentos no tratamento de fissuras lábio palatinas e anomalias craniofaciais.
Dr Geza Laszlo Urmenyi
Presidente da ABFLP – Associação Brasileira de Fissuras lábio Palatinas
