History of IAOMS:1982-1991
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1982
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IAOS President Geoffrey Howe Addresses AAOMS Conference
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IAOS President Geoffrey Howe addressed attendees of the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons in Atlanta, Georgia in October 1982. In his presentation, Dr. Howe traced back the origins of oral and maxillofacial surgery: “Oral surgery in the sense that we know it today really only “took off” during and after the 1939-1945 World War. Surgery has always flourished in the tragic circumstances of war and great advances which were made in our specialty in such circumstances have been of enormous benefit to our patients ever since. The First International Conference on Oral Surgery took place at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in London in 1962, only twenty years ago. At that Conference, the International Association of Oral Surgeons was born with the stated object of advancing the Science and Art of Oral Surgery. Your Association can justly claim to have been the midwife on that auspicious occasion. Today we have well over 1,500 fellows in 53 countries and almost every national and regional oral surgical association in the world is affiliated to us.”
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Consideration was to be given to the inclusion in the Journal of an abstract section which would deal, in extenso, with recent contributions to the relevant world literature.
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Symposium on Aging Held During FDI Congress
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The IAOS organized a session at the FDI congress in Vienna in 1982 on the theme “Aging.”
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Membership
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It was decided that an oral surgeon who was not a member of a national association may apply in writing for Fellowship in the IAOMS.
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Twenty-eight Fellows elected Life Fellowship in 1982.
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1983
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8th ICOS Takes Place in Berlin, Germany
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8th ICOS Poster, Berlin, Germany.
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The three symposia of the conference dealt with the following subjects:
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Modern Diagnostic Techniques
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Bone Healing and Regeneration
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Iatrogenic Nerve Lesions
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The conference attracted 567 participants and 230 accompanying persons from 41 countries. Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the VIII ICOS was Prof. Dr. Wilfred Schilli of Freiburg, West Germany.
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IAOMS President Prof. Daniel Laskin addresses the Assembly at the 8th ICOS.
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Past-President Geoffrey Howe congratulates the incoming President, Daniel Laskin, who wore the splendid chain of office donated by Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Linz.
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President Laskin, Secretary-General David Poswillo, and Professor Howe, Past-President, with Council Members at the closing of the General Assembly.
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Education Committee Holds Consensus Conference
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The Education Committee held a Consensus Conference, “Proceeding Consensus Conference: The Relative Roles of Vestibuloplasty and Ridge Augmentation in the Management of the Atrophic Mandible,” during the Berlin ICOS that was arranged by Dr. Paul J.W. Stoelinga in conjunction with Prof. Laskin. Surgeons and prosthodontists from members countries of the IAOS discussed items such as: indications for preprosthetic surgery, operation techniques and post-surgical results and long-term evaluations. A publication regarding the conference edited by Dr. Stoelinga was subsequently published in 1984.
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Honorary Fellow Elected
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At the Council meeting in West Berlin, it was decided unanimously to elect Professor Willem van der Kwast an Honorary Fellow of the IAOMS in recognition of his outstanding services to both the specialty and the Association. Prof. van der Kwast served as President, Secretary-General, and a member of the Executive Committee.
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Professor Willem van der Kwast
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IAOS Changes Name to IAOMS
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During the General Assembly of the Berlin ICOS, it was announced that the IAOS changed its name to the International Association of Oral amid Maxillofacial Surgeons (IAOMS): “The name of the Association shall be altered to International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, hereinafter referred to as the IAOMS or the Association” (Amendments to Regulations).
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Due to the association’s name change in 1983, in preparing the ICOS brochure it was suggested that there be a separation of topics for oral surgeons and maxillofacial surgeons.
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Annual Meetings of Executive Committee Planned
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The Executive Committee agreed in 1983 to meet annually.
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Membership
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The total number of Fellows in the Association in 1984 was 1,647, of which 4 were Honorary Fellows, 185 were Life Fellows, and 48 were Retired Fellows.
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IAOMS Program at FDI Congress
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The IAOMS presented a symposium on “New Techniques in Oral Surgery” during the FDI’s annual meeting in Helsinki in 1984.
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1984
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First IAOMS Newsletter Editor Named
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The Newsletter became an important means of communicating with the Fellowship during the 1970s and 1980s. Time spent in collection of the news, illustrations and information carried irk. The Newsletter expanded a great deal and the production of a quality communiqué for the Fellowship further burdened an already busy Secretary-General and Secretariat. The Executive Committee took note of this hardship but it was not until much later in 1984 that an Editor of the Newsletter was finally appointed to take on this extra work. Geoffrey L. Howe, United Kingdom, first served in this capacity and performed most capably through 1986. He freshened and repatterned the Newsletter to a pleasing format. The Newsletter became an important means of communicating with the Fellowship during the 1970s and 1980s. Time spent in collection of the news, illustrations and information carried irk. The Newsletter expanded a great deal and the production of a quality communiqué for the Fellowship further burdened an already busy Secretary-General and Secretariat. The Executive Committee took note of this hardship but it was not until much later in 1984 that an Editor of the Newsletter was finally appointed to take on this extra work. Geoffrey L. Howe, United Kingdom, first served in this capacity and performed most capably through 1986. He freshened and repatterned the Newsletter to a pleasing format.
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Geoffrey L. Howe, United Kingdom, IAOMS Newsletter Editor 1984-1986
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In “Notes from the Secretary-General” in the Summer 1984 Newsletter, Prof. Poswillo noted that while it was agreed in 1980 to only produce one Newsletter per year, “…we intend, in the forthcoming years, up and until the Vancouver meeting, to produce three or more Newsletters annually, as information is available, to keep Fellows in touch with world events as they affect Oral and Maxillofacial surgery and our International Association in particular.”
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IAOS Founder Honored During AAOMS Annual Meeting
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IAOMS Founder Dr. Fred Henny was honored at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) as the first recipient of the Educational Foundation—AAOMS Torch Award in appreciation of his devotion as a founder and first chairman of the AAOMS Foundation.
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IAOS Founder Dr. Fred Henny, speaking at the 66th Annual Meeting of AAOMS.
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IAOMS Founder Sir Terence Ward with AAOMS Vice President, Markell W. Kohn.
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IAOS Secretary-General Office Moves to London
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The office of the Secretary-General of the IAOS moved from Amsterdam to London in 1984. In his column, “The President’s Page” in the Summer 1984 Newsletter, President Daniel M. Laskin wrote: “As our organization continues to grow in number and our activities expand, I believe we must begin to think about the establishment of a permanent site for our headquarters.”
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Membership
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The IAOS welcomed the Indonesian Association of Oral Surgeons and the Iranian Society of Oral Surgeons as new affiliated national OMS associations.
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1985
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Consensus Conference Proceedings Reviewed
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A review of the 1983 IAOMS “Proceeding Consensus Conference: The Relative Roles of Vestibuloplasty and Ridge Augmentation in the Management of the Atrophic Mandible” edited by Paul J.W. Stoelinga, was very favorably reviewed by Peter Banks in the October 17, 1985 edition of Dental Practice. The success of the Consensus Conference encouraged the Education Committee to begin plans in 1985 for a similar program at the next ICOS in Vancouver on the topic of surgery of the temporomandibular joint.
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Participation in Future FDI Programs Considered by Executive Committee
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“The ramifications of dental practice are so great that one cannot expect a topic related to oral and maxillofacial surgery every year,” wrote Prof. Poswillo in his column, “Notes from the Secretary-General” in the Spring 1985 Newsletter. “The Executive will have to give consideration, when next it meets, to reviewing our participation in Annual FDI Meetings. It may be more appropriate for IAOMS to nominate the Main Theme program a representative on those occasions when surgical topics are to be discussed.”
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| 1986 |
| IAOMS Headquarters Moves and Association’s Name Changes |
| The transfer of association’s headquarters from Amsterdam to London took place in 1986 and standing orders were developed, one of which requires the Executive Committee hold annual meetings in the interim between those held at the International Conferences. The total number of IAOMS Fellows stood at 1,733 at year-end. |
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| IX ICOMS Held in Vancouver, British Columbia |
| The 9th International Conference on Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, which was co-sponsored by the Canadian Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery was held in May, 1986 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The occasion marked the first time the conference was named the International Conference on Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (ICOMS), having been the International Conference on Oral Surgery (ICOS) up until this point. Dr. Al Swanson served as Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee. The Scientific Program centered on the following topics: Internal Derangements of the Temporomandibular Joint Pedicled Osseous Grafts, Long Term Stability of Mid-facial Advancements, and Alveolar Ridge Augmentation with Bone Substitutes. |
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| 9th ICOMS Poster, Vancouver, British Columbia |
| A total of 795 delegates and 263 accompanying persons attended from 39 countries. A Consensus Conference on surgery of the temporomandibular joint was held on the first day of the conference and documented via the report “TM Joint Disorders” by Professor David Gutman. It was the first conference to take place under the new name, International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. |
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| The IAOMS Council meeting during the IX ICOMS in Vancouver, British Columbia, May 25, 1986. |
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| ICOMS Proceedings Published |
| Published in 1986 were the Proceedings of the VIIIth International Conference on Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and the Consensus Conference on the Relative Roles of Vestibuloplasty and Ridge Augmentation in the Management of the Atrophic Mandible.
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| Honorary Fellows |
| New Honorary Fellows in 1986: |
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Mr. Norman L. Rowe, United Kingdom, Secretary General of the IAOMS
from 1968-1971 |
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| Professor Willem A.M. van der Kwast (Netherlands), President, IAOMS 1977-1980 and Secretary-General 1980-1983; and |
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| Dr. G.H. Leatherman, former Secretary General of the FDI. As Dr. Leatherman was unable to be present at the ICOMS in Vancouver, he was presented with a set of IAOMS cuff-links by IAOMS President Wilfred Schilli at a dinner in London held on the occasion of the Executive Meeting in February 1987.
Prof. van der Kwast was also honored on his 60th birthday at a three-day scientific congress “Headlines”, which also celebrated the opening of a new outpatient building. |
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| Sir Terence Ward |
| Sir Terence Ward was recognized for his work in the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery on the occasion of his 80th birthday in 1986. |
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| The event was held at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead and was attended by 60 of his former trainees, together with a number of distinguished friends from the international field of oral surgery. A clinical meeting held during the day, “Dentist and Surgeon,” traced the development of the specialty of oral surgery during Sir Terence’s lifetime and attempted to predict future outcomes. |
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| Membership |
| There were 25 affiliated national associations in IAOMS in 1986, six from Latin America, ten from Europe, and six from Asia, plus USA, Canada and Australia/New Zealand.
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| IJOMS Becomes Compulsory |
| The Council passed a Resolution during the ICOMS whereby beginning in January, 1988, the annual membership dues for the IAOMS would include the cost of subscription to the IOAMS Journal.
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| OMS Training Association Forms |
| Also in 1986, the International Association of Maxillofacial Surgeons in Training was registered in Geneva as a new association. The constitution stated: “Its objects are to encourage interpersonal contact and communication within the profession and give surgeons in training more opportunity to visit other centres and attend international meetings.”
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| 1987 |
| Conception of IAOMS Committees |
| In his 1987 IAOMS Newsletter column, Secretary General Prof. Poswillo commented that “the Association should be looking towards new initiatives which may strengthen the role of the oral and maxillofacial surgeon in the healthcare system. Throughout the world, great attention is being focused on quality assurance methods and systematic review of training, continuing education and new professional methods. The Executive Committee at its meeting in Vancouver, established that Committees of the Council should be set up to promote growth and development in all those areas which are subject to quality assurance.” |
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| IAOMS Newsletter |
| At the Vancouver meeting the IAOMS Council appointed David McGowan, Professor of Oral Surgery at the University of Glasgow, to succeed Professor Geoffrey Howe as editor of the Newsletter. Newsletter production moved to Scotland. The new editor was charged with the task of producing two issues a year. |
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Professor David McGowan,
IAOMS Newsletter Editor |
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| Invitational Conference on International Affairs |
The first Invitational Conference on Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery International Affairs was held in Tenerife in 1987. In preparation for the conference, 36 countries were surveyed for current data on the oral and maxillofacial surgery specialty. The conference focused on the following three areas:
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The future scope of oral and maxillofacial surgery |
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The education and training of the future oral and maxillofacial surgeon, and |
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Means to enhance the organizational united of the specialty internationally. |
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Drs. György Szabó (Budapest, Hungary), Mikko Altonen (Oulu, Finland), Alekso Pisceric (Belgrad, Yugoslavia), and
Victor M. Sada (Madrid, Spain) in an off-duty moment at the Tenerife Conference. |
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| Fifty-three members from 24 countries participated in the event.
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| IAOMS Committees Formed |
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The following committees were established in 1987: Membership, Scientific Affairs and Education.
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| IJOMS Changes Design Again, New Editor-in-Chief Appointed |
The second design, however, existed only two years through 1987 when the Journal format and size were enlarged, which included another revamped but most distinctive and attractive cover design that exists to the present time.
On the resignation of IJOMS Editor-in-Chief Erik Hjorting-Hansen of Denmark after 12 years of service, Paul J. W. Stoelinga of the Netherlands was appointed the post beginning with the first issue of 1988. As noted above, Dr. Stoelinga enlarged the face and design of the Journal, but most importantly, he divided his large Editorial Board into five sections--Medicine, Pathology: Trauma, Pre-prosthetic Surgery; Reconstructive Surgery; Oncology; and Research, Development--each with its own Section Editor. This streamlining concept was aimed to cover the diverse and widened interests of the rapidly growing specialty in an appealing manner. Under Dr. Stoelinga’s direction, the Journal flourished remarkably as a very important asset of the IAOMS, and became an eminent worldwide resource to the Fellowship.
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| 1988 |
| Second Invitational Conference Held |
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The Second Invitational Conference on Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery was held in 1988 in Hamilton, Bermuda. Fifty-three members from 23 countries participated. The consensus of the First and Second Invitational Conferences was that the scope of oral and maxillofacial surgery includes, but is not limited to:
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Oral Pathology/Oral Medicine, including Management of Diseases of the Oral and Maxillofacial Regions |
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Dentoalveolar Surgery |
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Management of Pain and Anxiety |
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Preprosthetic Surgery (including Implantology) |
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Surgical and non-surgical management of TMJ Disease |
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Management of Facial Trauma (soft and hard tissues) |
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Oncology (including benign and malignant salivary gland tumors |
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Regional Reconstructive Surgery
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Harvesting of hard and soft tissues |
| Microsurgery |
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Orthognathic/Orthopedic Facial Surgery |
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Esthetic Surgery |
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Surgical Treatment of Congenital Abnormalities including Cleft Lip and Palate Surgery |
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Craniofacial Surgery |
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Other (as technological advances dictate). |
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Two years core surgical experience with rotations on general surgery; ear, nose and throat; plastic surgery; neurosurgery; etc. Focus of this surgery core training is to master the basic principles of surgery. |
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Three years concentrated oral and maxillofacial surgical experience. |
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| An option is one year core surgical experience and four years in oral and maxillofacial surgery. |
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| The two conferences also recognized that “in order to bring about a stabilization of the specialty and enable it to speak with one voice, there is a need for improved international cooperation and communication. It was the unanimous opinion that the vehicle should be through the IAOMS.” Recommendations included a permanent central office with a full-time staff, a revised organizational structure to provide better representation in the decision-making process, improved lines of communication, consideration of regional associations, and required membership in IAOMS of all members of national organizations. |
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| Membership |
| At the end of 1988, the Association boasted a total of 1,724 Fellows. |
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| 1989 |
| The 10th ICOMS was held in Jerusalem, Israel in 1989 under the organizing chairmanship of Dr. Eli Ronen. Co-sponsor was the Israeli Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. |
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Jerusalem, site of the 10th International Conference on Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery,
May 1988. |
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| The two main Symposia were the subjects of “Reconstructive Maxillofacial Surgery” and “Imaging in Maxillofacial Surgery.” The conference also included a workshop on implantology. The conference attracted 309 participants and 108 accompanying persons from 31 countries. |
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Dr. Ferreria, Dr. Mauro, Dr. Arienza, Dr. Muller,
members of the delegation which would prepare the 11th ICOMS in Buenos Aires. |
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| New IAOMS Dues Structure |
| During the ICOMS, the financial viability of the IAOMS was secured by a unanimously agreed fee structure sufficient to maintain the Secretariat. Wrote David Poswillo in his “Salute Et Quo Vadis” after seven years as the Association’s Secretary General: “At the same time, the future of our International Journal and its ever-expanding significance in the wide world of oral and maxillofacial surgery became an obligation for all Members of our Association. All of these measures will secure the future of individual practitioners and the Association at large in the firmament of International surgical specialties. It is the obligation of every Fellow of the Association to support these moves and to strengthen the position of our emerging specialty in the new endeavors which, year by year, become more widely recognized by our surgical colleagues.” |
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| Eugene Friedman and Bob Cook |
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| Membership Committee Chairman Eugene Friedman met with Executive Member Bob Cook (and Secretary-General David Poswillo) in 1988 to discuss a drive to recruit new members worldwide. Members of the Membership Committee were each given special responsibility to recruit in broad geographic areas. A brochure that described the benefits of membership of IAOMS also was to be developed to encourage recruitment. The first action item for the committee was recruitment at the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) during its annual meeting in Boston that year. Members of the IAOMS manned a table in the exhibition area and benefits offered on enrollment were a complimentary copy of the newly revised IJOMS and official cuff-links for new life members. |
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| Asian OMS Congress Held |
| The inaugural congress of the Asian Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons took place in March, 1989 with over 1,000 surgeons from 18 countries in attendance. The new association was formed with the aims of improving the quality of oral surgery in the region and to provide a forum for Asian surgeons to interact with colleagues from around the world. |
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| Four-Year OMS Programs Become Mandatory in USA |
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In the USA, four-year training programs in oral and maxillofacial surgery became mandatory in 1989, according to the American Dental Association’s Commission on Dental Accreditation. In 1989, the US had 112 accredited Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery residencies, of which 30 provided for the opportunity to receive a Doctor of Medicine degree in addition to the Doctor of Dental Medicine or Doctor of Dental Surgery degree required to enter oral and maxillofacial surgery residency.
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The Sociedad de Cirurgia y Traumatologia Bucal y Maxilo Facial de Chile was officially admitted as a member nation of the IAOMS at the 10th International Congress.
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| 1990 |
| OMS Training Association Meets |
The second symposium of the International Association of Maxillofacial Surgeons in Training took place in Luxembourg on June 16, 1990 to discuss the “state of the art” in bone grafting in cleft lip and palate deformity. Four scientific sessions were held on the following topics:
The evolution of the current practice of alveolar bone grafting in Oslo.
Discussion of the possible donor sites for alveolar bone grafts.
Orthodontic preparation for alveolar bone grafting.
Late surgical management of secondarily grafted cleft patients.
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| Scandanavian Association Celebrates 25 Years |
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The Scandanavian Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons celebrated its 25th anniversary in 1990 with a jubilee conference on the island of Fyn, Denmark where Hans Christian Andersen was born. The conference featured a symposium on mandibular reconstruction.
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| Membership |
The IAOMS increased the number of affiliated OMS associations from 25 to 30 in 1990.
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| 1991 |
| Future Needs of OMS Education and Training |
At its meeting in February 1991, the IAOMS Executive Committee reviewed a document formulated following the review of information from 32 countries and the report that resulted from the Tenerife and Bermuda conferences relative to needs in the thorough education and training of future oral and maxillofacial surgeons. A preliminary report to the Executive Committee in February 1990 emphasized that the approach to progressive unification of the specialty should involve the three common areas of scope: education, training, and qualifications. It was recognized that expansion of those goals would be long-term and not attainable in all parts of the world within the same time frame because of law or different historical evolution of the specialty in various countries.
In his “Message from the President,” Robert V. Walker, DDS, stressed that “the concept and need should be kept clear and in focus for realization as quickly as possible, and in some countries as early as the year 2000.”
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IAOMS President Robert Walker |
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| IAOMS Newsletter Editor Changes |
| Due to heavier commitments and responsibilities being made on him as the new Dean of the Glasgow Dental Hospital and School, Professor David A. McGowan relinquished his duties as Editor of the IAOMS Newsletter to Professor John W. Frame of Birmingham, England. |
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| Professor John Frame, IAOMS Newsletter Editor
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| Membership and Headquarters Move |
| There were 32 affiliated national OMS associations in 1991. The Association’s headquarters moved from England to the United States in 1991 and a re-computerization of the membership roll was done. Dr. Marsden Bell and the Membership Committee produced a brochure about the IAOMS, complete with a membership application. |
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| IAOMS Founder Honored |
| IAOMS Founder Fellow Dr. Victor Sada was awarded Spain’s highest honor in dentistry in 1991, the “Premio Santa Apolonia 1990.” |
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| R. Victor Sada (right) of Madrid, Spain, recipient of Spain’s highest honor in dentistry is congratulated by Dr. Eugene Friedman of Massapequa, New York, another Founder Fellow and former Council Member.
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| At the time, the award only had been given out twice before. Over 800 persons paid homage to Dr. Sada at the award’s gala reception and dinner. In addition to being a Founder Fellow, Dr. Sada served on both the Executive Committee and Council. He was the host and chairman of the IVth International Congress in Madrid in 1974. |
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| AAOMS Considers Making IAOMS Membership Mandatory |
| The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) considered a resolution whereby membership in the IAOMS be mandatory for all AAOMS fellows/members and be funded through a $10 dues increase, effective 1993. The resolution carried the stipulation that the majority of IAOMS member countries agree to do likewise before approval of the resolution is recommended for the 1992 AAOMS House of Delegates.
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