Events
Great Health, Great Life Carnival
Great Eastern's Health Carnival takes place this week - September 17-20, 2009 at the Tropics Atrium, Suntec City in Singapore. ParkwayHealth, Singapore's leading healthcare provider, has teamed up with Great Eastern for this 4-day event.
Specialist Dental Group is supporting this worthwhile event as part of our community outreach activities. Members of our dental team will be present to provide short consultations on each day of the Health Carnival. Consultations will take place at the Specialist Dental Group Booth.
The details of the short consultations are as follows:
- Thursday, September 17, 2009 from 6:30pm - 8:30 pm by Dr Ho Kok Sen, Dental Specialist in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery;
- Friday, September 18, 2009 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm by Dr Ansgar Cheng, Dental Specialist in Prosthodontics;
- Saturday, September 19, 2009 from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm by Dr Neo Tee Khin, Dental Specialist in Prosthodontics;
- Sunday, September 20, 2009 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm by Dr Elvin Leong, Dental Specialist in Prosthodontics
In addition, Dr Elvin Leong will be participating in an "In Conversations" session with the emcee on Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 4pm covering a range of dental solutions. There will be a question and answer session during this time.
Dental Sponsors participating in the Health Carnival include Lion Corporation which will generously provide Systema Sensitive Toothpastes, Systema Toothpastes and Systema Toothbrushes for the goody bags. Biomet 3i, a leading dental implants company based in the USA, is also a sponsor and will provide a special toolkit for the goody bag.
There will be other health Q&A (question and answer) sessions at the carnival by leading medical specialists as well as quizzes, lucky draws and other activities for the whole family.
Especially for children, Dr Sunny Lion from Great Eastern and his health train will be present - there will also be educational activities for the little ones :) Other sponsors of the event include OCBC, Brands, and F&N Magnolia, among many others.
Drop by and say Hello! We look forward to seeing you there.
Your Mouth: More to it than you know

The Singapore Dental Association and Sensodyne are organizing a public forum on "Your Mouth: More to it than you know".
The dental public forum also coincides with the 2009 FDI Annual World Dental Congress which will be held in Singapore from September 2 to 5. The FDI World Dental Congress is one of the few mega conventions in the world that attract more than 10,000 foreign delegates.
Make yourself available on Saturday, September 5 for an informative afternoon of all things dental, from aesthetics, oral cancer, latest technology and the relationship between dental problems and kidney disease.
Dr Ansgar Cheng from Specialist Dental Group will be speaking on "Latest Technology to Help you Smile with Confidence". Other topics include:
- "Are you Growing a Litte Cancer in your Mouth? Oral Cancer - What you need to know"
- "Get your teeth into kidney disease"
- " Healthy Gums: A strong foundation for long lasting teeth"
- "Teeth Whitening - Myths & Truths - is it for you?"
Details

Date: Saturday, September 5, 2009
Time: 2 pm to 6 pm
Venue: Marina Mandarin Hotel, Leo Room, Level 1
Fee: $10 (inclusive of tea break & goody bag)
All fees collected will be donated to the Singapore Children's Society.
To register,
- You can download the form from http://www.sda.org.sg/pdf/responseform.pdf
- sms (text "your name", "contact number" and "number of people attending" to 8300 1151) or
- call 6232 8232 during the office hours

