Editorial

Abstract

whose scientific coordinator and president were Dr. Carlos dos Reis Pereira de Araújo and Leonardo Vieira Lima Gregorio, respectively. This conference was held on May 23-26, 2007. Approximately 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students, clinicians as well as speakers attended this important event, and many of them showed their scientific and clinical works during oral and poster presentations. A special prize was awarded to the best research work and best case report whose first authors were undergraduate students. In order to achieve a fair evaluation, after the oral presentation, students discussed their works with the Editor-in-Chief and another member of the editorial board. I would like to emphasize the enthusiasm of these young investigators, who came from different states of Brazil. Therefore, besides the 290 abstracts, I also recommend the readers to carefully read the beautiful works by Anchieta et al. (p.321-6) and Machado et al. (p.327-33).