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Online-Dental-Dictionary alive and kicking

The Online-Dental-Dictionary has been under new management since January 2024. The new editor, Michael Scholand, is a qualified translator and terminologist. After 21 years as Managing Director of the STAR Group's Spanish subsidiary, he returned to freelance work as a language service provider for English, Spanish and German in 2020. As a specialist medical translator, he works in the field of dentistry, among others. In the course of his professional experience of more than 25 years, he has been able to create extensive dictionaries in the fields of medicine and dentistry.

Mr Richard Giles, the original editor of the online dental dictionary, has entrusted me with the continuation of the dictionary. I would like to thank him for his trust, for his help in taking over the publication and for his continued professional advice.

We will keep our customers informed about the further development of the online dental dictionary via this website and other channels.

Michael Scholand

Michael Scholand

New Chief Editor of the Online-Dental-Dictionary

 

Original publisher

The online dental dictionary and compendium in its previous form was created by Richard Giles. Richard Giles was born in England. After a 12-year career as a dental technician and training manager, he has worked as a specialised translator (German to English) in the field of dentistry and dental technology for over 25 years. As managing translator at Reule-Giles Dental-Service, he began compiling a German-English specialised dictionary as a reference work for himself and other employees. When he had accumulated several thousand terms in 2001, he decided to make this valuable knowledge available to other dental professionals and published the online dental dictionary.

In his capacity as Managing Director of LinguaDent - Dental Translations, he worked together with his German and British colleagues, all also dental specialists, to continuously expand and improve the online dental dictionary and compendium. As a result, the dictionary now contains around 20,000 terms. In addition to the dictionary, the online dental compendium was created, which now contains over 4,000 definitions..

team member one

Richard Giles

Original director/editor of the Online-Dental-Dictionary
 

INITIAL SCIENTIFIC SUPPORT

Prof. Dr. Markus Balkenhol

Saarland University Hospital Department of Operative Dentistry, Periodontology and Preventive Dentistry Building 73