Newsletter The International Association of Dento-Maxillo-Facial Radiology

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Edemir Costa (chair) Newsletter Committee

EDITORIAL

    I am concluding my term as Editor of the Newsletter of the International Association of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology. To being able to edit the last four issues of this important publication was very pleasing and rewarding, and we can only say that we took that responsibility with great honour.

    I hope we have fulfilled the membership’s expectations as well as to have added a little to the betterment of the Association’s informative medium.

    I can not forget to acknowledge the participation of the other members of the Newsletter Committee on this journey, without whom I would not be able to accomplish my task. They are Drs. Irmela Reuter, Gerard Sanderink, William Scarf, and Murillo Abreu Jr.

    On behalf of the Newsletter Committee, I express my gratitude to the members of the Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and to all other IADMFR members for the attention we had and for sending us invaluable contributions to the Newsletter.

    By the time you receive the present issue of the Newsletter  it will almost be  time  to pack your clothes and fly to Glasgow. We would like to wish  success to Drs. Douglas J. Lovelock, President of the Association, and Dr. Laetitia Brocklebank, Vice-President, on the realization of the 13th Congress of IADMFR.
    We look forward to meeting our old friends again, and to make new ones, while we taste the best whisky in the world.
    Our gratitude to you all and best wishes to the new Editor of the Newsletter. We hope he/she receives the same cooperation we had the honour to receive.

     Thank you very much,

Prof. Edemir Costa
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Disciplina de Radiologia Odontológica/CCS/STM
Campus Universitário – Trindade
88040-900 Florianópolis (SC) – Brasil
e-mail: ecosta@matrix.com.br
Fax: 55 (48) 224-6904

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Douglas Lovelock President of I A D M F R

    We are looking forward to welcoming you to Glasgow for the 13th International Congress of DentoMaxilloFacial Radiology in august. The Congress Secretary General, Laetitia Brocklebank, is giving you an update elsewhere in this newsletter, so I will not repeat the same things here.

    All of the U.K. Organising Committee are working hard to ensure that you have a most enjoyable Congress. With over 200 abstracts, and several plenary lectures, there will be plenty of science for you. I promise that we have not neglected the social programme either as we
wish you to remember Glasgow 2001 for many years to come.

    You will be pleased to hear that there is no Foot and Mouth disease within 70 miles [110 km.] of Glasgow. So please do not worry. Also, there have been hardly any new cases reported in the last four weeks. Visitors are asked not to bring any meat products into U.K. at present, so you may be asked about this on arrival.

    This will be my final message to you as your President. For those of you who I will not be able to thank personally in Glasgow, thank you for your support of IADMFR; without its members there would be no Association.

    My congratulations are extended to Edemir Costa and Murillo Abreu for all of the hard work that they have carried out on the Newsletter. I also wish them a most successful two years climaxing in the 14th Congress in Brasil.

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    The Board of Directors and its Constitution and Byelaws Committee have been debating ways of improving representation of members worldwide, and  improving communication with the membership.

    The following proposal is submitted for consideration by the General Assembly of IADMFR in Glasgow on 7th August 2001:

    1] Every country that has members of IADMFR elects a NATIONAL  REPRESENTATIVE to act as co-ordinator for the Association in that country.
    2] Any country with more than 50 members of IADMFR may elect TWO national  representatives.
    3] National Representatives shall be elected for 2/3 or 4/6 years [depending on 2 or 3 year Congress cycle], and shall be eligible for re-election.
    4] At each International Congress of DMFR there will be a joint meeting of National Representatives and the Board of Directors.
    5] The Board of Directors of IADMFR shall consist of:

    a) The Officers of IADMFR
    b) One elected COUNCELLOR from each of the following regions:
    Africa
    Australasia
    Eastern Asia
    Europe
    North America
    South America
    Western Asia and the Middle East

    6] The COUNCELLORS to be elected by:
    - the National Representatives or
    -the General Assembly to be decided by General Assembly.

    7] Councellors will be elected for 2/3 years, and will be eligible  for re-election for a second term of office. After 4/6 years in office, a Councellor would not be eligible for re-election for
 a further period of 2/3 years.

    Please give these proposed changes some thought before the General Assembly. If you have any comments to make on these proposed changes, and are unable to attend the General Assembly, please contact me directly - details below.

Douglas Lovelock.
President of IADMFR.
Dept. of Radiology
Dental Hospital & School
Richardson Road
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4AZ, UK.
Telephone: International Code: +44 191-. National Code: 0191-
Phone -232-5131, bleep 2331, or ext 24867.
Direct line -282-4867.
Fax -222-6137, -227-5149.
e-mail: D.J.Lovelock@newcastle.ac.uk

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Gerard Sanderink Secretary General IADMFR e-mail: G.Sanderink@acta.nl

1. Welcome and Opening of the Meeting             Dr. Douglas Lovelock, President IADMFR
2. Absentees and alternates:                                Dr. Sanderink, Secretary General
3. Minutes of the last General Assembly June , 1999 Osaka, Japan
(See Newsletter Vol 25 No.2 May 2000)
4. Report of the Secretary General                       Dr. Sanderink
5. Report of the Treasurer/Finance committee    Dr. Habets
6. Past President’s Report                                    Prof. Fuchihata
(See Newsletter V25 No.1 Nov. 1999)
7. President’s Report                                             Prof. Lovelock
8. Report of the President Elect                            Prof. Costa
9. Report of the Newsletter Editor                         Prof. Costa
10. Editor’s Report                                                Mr. Hirschmann
11. Publisher’s Report                                          Mr. Hirschmann/Publishers Representative
12. Committee Reports
13. Awarding of IADMFR Fellowship
14. Congress Cycle (Two or Three year cycle)
15. Report of the Nominating Committee              Prof. Fuchihata (Chair)
16. Other items as submitted

    A few weeks before the General Assembly more detailed information will be available through the web site of the IADMFR (www.iadmfr.acta.nl).

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    Three bids  for ICDMFR 2005/6 were formally received before the deadline. The list of the bids as follows:

    List of candidates for 2005/6 ICDMFR

    1) Candidate: Dr. Edgar Hirsch
     Affiliation: The University of Leipzig - Leipzig, Germany
     Venue: Hotel Intercontinental Leipzig
     Period: not specified
     Remarks: IADMFR member

    2) Candidate: Prof. Xu-chen Ma
     Affiliation: Beijing Medical University School of Stomatology -  Beijing, China
     Venue: Friendship Hotel, Beijing
     Period: May or September
     Remarks: IADMFR member; Regional Director (Asia)

    3) Candidate: Prof. Chris Nortje
     Affiliation: University of Stellenbosch - Cape Town, South Africa  Venue: The Cape Town Int’l Convention Centre
     Period: 1-4 July, 2005
     Remarks: IADMFR member; Regional Director (Africa)

    The bids will be discussed in the nominating committee in Glasgow. A proposal of the committee for congress site and year (2005 or 2006) along with our new president-elect will be made and finally approved in General Assembly in Glasgow.
    The nominating committee will discuss also on a slate of new officers.

Prof.Hajime Fuchihata, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Chairman Nominating Committee

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4- 8 August 2001

    Greetings to you all from Glasgow in Bonnie Scotland. I started to write this in February, watching the snow falling outside my window. But Spring is now here, and I am filled with warmth and optimism for the Congress. That week in early February was exceptionally exciting for me, as I watched the abstract numbers grow from 50 on the Friday pre-deadline to 157 on deadline day and around 200 just a few days later! What a response – thank you all very much. I have never been involved in an international meeting before and so I had no real idea what to expect – but his surpasses what expectations I had. I can almost imagine you all sitting at your computers, with our web-site open in front of you, filling in the sections one by one and then finally pressing “SUBMIT”.  Those of you who are presenting either an oral or poster presentation will have received confirmation and, I hope, registered by now, as the early Registration Deadline will be passed by the time you receive this Newsletter.

    We have been approached by a couple of members who wish to have a small site to demonstrate some software they have developed. There may be more of you out there who would like the opportunity to do this as well as to share your developments with colleagues. If you are interested in this possibility then please contact me with some information about your development. We would only be able to provide you with a table and electricity supply; any computers, etc. would have to be provided by you. This facility will only be available for members, and where there is no commercial aspect to the product. If you have a development which is marketed commercially then it would be more appropriate to consider taking a stand in the exhibition hall (if space is still available) and perhaps linking up with someone else to make this a realistic option. Any questions, please e-mail me.

    Lilian Lovelock has asked me to remind you that we may be able to offer facilities to care for children during the day, provided there is sufficient demand. But we can only do this if we have plenty of notice. There is a space on the Registration form to tick, if you are interested. Lilian and the Secretariat will then see what can be arranged.

    I was fortunate enough to spend an evening and night in the luxury of the Turnberry Hotel, immediately adjacent to the golf fairways. This hotel is in a magnificent setting and  there is no doubt that it also offers great golf. David Still is looking forward to arranging a golf tournament on Thursday 9 August for those members and partners or friends who are interested – please tick the box on the Registration form.

    This is a good opportunity to say something about registering. If you’ve already submitted an abstract on the web-site I am sure you will feel comfortable with registering the same way. For some of you this will be the first time you have done this, and you may be worried that you can’t see everything you have to fill in from the very beginning. Don’t worry – I’ve done it and it is very user friendly. You can stop and cancel the transaction at any time up to the last moment. The information needed is the same as on the printed form that was distributed with the Second Announcement. Once Concorde receive your registration they will issue you with a delegate number and send you written confirmation of your booking – it is very important that you bring this with you to the Congress, in order to collect your registration pack. They will then write to you again nearer the time with information to help you on your arrival in Glasgow and in planning the remainder of your visit to Scotland.

    We are very pleased with the number of registrations we have had so far, and looking forward to a varied, intellectually stimulating and enjoyable Congress. Details of the invited speakers were included in the Second Announcement and on the web. We also have a very good Trade Exhibition which is located quite close to the Scientific Presentation rooms. Coffee will be served in this area, and the Welcome Party will be located within the Exhibition to give delegates an opportunity to start to examine what is on offer, whilst at the same time re-meeting old friends. Details of the Companies who have confirmed their space are on the web, and for those of you without Internet access reproduced here:

    Cook (UK) Ltd, Dentsply Ltd, Fiad & Clark Dental, Instrumentarium Imaging, Kodak, Medivance Instruments, Minerva Dental Ltd, J Morita Corporation Ltd, Orion Corporation SOREDEX, Planmeca.

    I’m looking forward to seeing many of you soon in Glasgow!

Laetitia Brocklebank
Secretary-General, Glasgow 2001
e-mail: l.m.brocklebank@dental.gla.ac.uk
web-site: http://iadmfrglasgow2001.shef.ac.uk

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    Journal of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology

• The offical Journal published by the Association.
• Membership fees are less than 50% of the regular subscription fees of the Journal.
• Receive 6 journals per year.
• The Journal is the world’s only English language periodical devoted entirely to dento-maxillofacial radiology.
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• In 1999 and 2000 a combined print and on-line version of the Journal will be available to members free of extra charge.

• two times per year futuring items of interest and contributions from members worldwide.

• over 150 oral presentations
• poster sessions,
• commercial exhibits
• an excellent social program for registrants
• special events for accompanying persons.

    2001: Glasgow, Scotland, August 04-08
    2003: Florianopolis, Brazil, May 19-23

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Report   from Argentina
 

HUGO DAGUM Regional Director South America

    Ever since September 2000, a small group of specialists in oral radiology have gathered all of the dentists of the country who exercise the speciality whether full or part time, in order to form the Sociedad Argentina de Radiologia Odontologica (SARO), Argentine Society of Dental Radiology.

    We are working very hard, taking into account that Argentina is an extense country (about 2,300,000 km2) and we have achieved this important task on this 5th day of the month of may 2001 in the Organizational Meeting carried out in the city of Buenos Aires. With a hundred of new members and with the hope of  future duplication of the number of colleague members, the by-laws were approved and the first Executive Committee was chosen. Same is composed as follows:

PRESIDENT Dr. Hugo DAGUM
VICEPRESIDENT Dr. Eduardo L. PALADINI
SECRETARY Dr. Jose L. SOENGAS
TREASURER Dr. Myriam E. MICHELLI

In the perfomance of other executive offices:

Dr. Jose SOENGAS
Dr. Beatriz A. M. MARTINEZ
Dr. Maria E. MARTINEZ
Dr. Edith MILAT
Dr. Cesar J. TAMBELLA
Dr. Jorge A. PEREZ IBAÑEZ
Dr. Carlos E. GALLARDO
Dr. Elia BARBAZAN

    Said Committee takes over the organization of the IV LATIN AMERICAN MEETING OF ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL RADIOLOGY, which will take place on the month of June of the year 2002, in the city of Buenos Aires.

    It is our will that this first step to organize radiology in our country shall be of benefit for everyone, since there will be representation before the authorities of health in Argentine and this way we will be able to approach IADMFR to them.

    We will probably discuss about the aforementioned topic at the meeting of the Board of Directors in August in Glasgow, Scotland.

    My best regards to all IADMFR members.

    Sincerely yours,

HUGO DAGUM
Regional Director South America
Azcuenaga, 834
1115 Buenos Aires - Argentina
Tel.: 54(1) 963-7766
Fax: 54(1) 963-3211
hugodagum@movi.com.ar

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    Hello there to all, from the great south land, Australia.
    It is with regret that one has to inform IADMFR members that the Australian Academy is in the process of being wound up. Some of the money will be held in trust by our Accountants/Auditors for a period of time to provide seeding
capital should another acceptable group be found.

    The remainder of our capital has been evenly divided between The Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Radiologists (A&NZCR) and the Australian Institute of Radiographers (AIR) (Medical Imaging) ......to be placed into
their education funds.

    There are only four OMF Radiologists actually Registered with the Dental Boards within Australia at present but many other clinicians at various stages over the past 10 years have had interest in the AADMFR group with
membership at times being in the 40’s. But during the past 4 years we have struggled to get (and didn’t) a Constitutional quorum for any Annual meetings and we have also had to cancel 2 conferences in our history because
of lack of support. Thus the 3 Directors had to make that hard decision to close down the Academy.

    Two OMFR’s who are Members of the IADMFR (Drs. Paul Monsour and Ross Macdonald) who are associate Members of The RA&NZCR, have been invited to form a special interest group within the RA&NZCR. This group is headed by Dr. A. Whyte as the Chairperson. And note should be made of Dr A. Whyte, who is chair of the RA&NZCR OMFR Special Interest Group who has the following qualifications: BDS(Hons), MBBS, FRCR, FRA&NZCR, Dipl. OMFR RCR. (some will know of him in the UK...note Dipl OMFR RCR).

    The group is charged by the College with the task of organizing and running specific training courses in OMFR for medical radiologists and medical imaging technologists, and the first will be a 3 day conference in Perth ,Western Australia, in September 2001.

    I (RM) cannot be in Glasgow for the Congress, but I send my personal best wishes to all for a successful gathering and a special “Hello” to all my friends. It is a pity I cannot return to my heritage origins and say my prayers at Cullodin, but Macdonald of Clanranald will be thinking of you all at the Congress.

Sincerely

Ross Macdonald
Regional Director - Australasia
rossmac@optusnet.com.au

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   The 41st Congress of Japanese Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology (JSOMR) was held from October 5 through October 7, 2000 at Gifu city, chaired by Professor Masami Fujishita of Asahi University, School of Dentistry. Eighty-nine scientific papers (48 oral and 41 poster presentations) were reported. During the period of the meeting, some satellite meetings such as the 9th Meeting of Practical Applications of Computer and the 13th Meeting on Radiation Therapy were held. Special lecture: “Advances in CT for Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery”, by Dr. Willi
A. Kalender, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuernberg. At the symposium, 4 panelists treated 3D image in dental field in detail. “3D images for dental use”, by Y. Arai, “Supply of 3-dimentional computed tomography imaging in dentistry by the local hospital”, by Y. Murohara, et al and “Optimization of Spiral CT examination for dentistry”, by Y. Morita. Assigned lectures: “MTF measurement and its limitation on radiograph by Prof. Yasuhiko Okumura. Evaluation of blood flow by Doppler imaging: Application to maxillo-facial region”,  by Prof. Eiichiro Ariji.

    The 186th meeting of Kanto (East Japan) district of JSOMR was held at Tokyo Dental College at Inage In Chiba prefecture chaired by Professor Kinya Kuroyanagi, on November 18, 2000. Eight scientific papers and 1 imaging
interpretation were presented.

    The Joint conference with the 43rd Kansai (West Japan) and 32nd Kyushu districts of JSOMR was held on November 25, 2000 at Kitakyusyu International Conference Hall chaired by Professor Takeru Ohba, of Kyushu Dental College. Eighteen scientific papers were presented.

    The 187th meeting of Kanto district of JSOMR was held at School of Dentistry at Niigata, The Nippon Dental University on March 31, 2001 chaired by Professor Makoto Tsuchimochi. Ten scientific papers were presented.
Educational lecture entitled “Findings of cortex bone on clinical CT Imaging - From the standpoint of physic medicine - by Dr. Shinichi Wada.

    The accrediting system for Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology (Board of the Japanese Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology) was in effect from January 1995. The applicant should be a member of Japanese Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology (JSOMR). The certificate is granted to those who have received minimum 3 years of practical training of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology at the accredited institutions under the guidance specialist and pass the board examination. Sixty-six guidance specialists and 253 specialists were certified and 29 authorized
institutions were approved as of May 13, 2000.

    Figures 1-3 were taken  at the 41st Congress of Japanese Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology.

Kanji KISHI
Okayama Univ. Dental School
Okayama, Japan

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This year the 15th Nordic Symposium in Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology was planned to be given in Turku, Finland in the beginning of June.  Unfortunately, the number of participants was too low and therefore the meeting has been cancelled.  There are probably too many conferences and this year the Glasgow meeting is ranked as no. 1.  I feel sorry for the organisers of the Nordic meeting and I really hope that the Nordic meetings can continue in some way in the future.

 This report will continue with information from the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology in Gothenburg, Sweden.  The summaries of three Odont.dr. dissertations are given below.  Professor Hans-Göran Gröndahl also informs that Richard L. Webber has been designated as honorary doctor at the University of Gothenburg and the formal act will take place in Gothenburg, October 20 this year.

 The following two dissertations have recently been defended and the last one by Agneta Lith is defended May 18, 2001.

Annika Ekestubbe (1999):

 “Conventional spiral and low-dose computed mandibular tomography in dental implant planning”.
 Comparisons of radiation dose and image quality in pre-implant conventional hypocycloidal, conventional spiral and computed tomography (CT) showed that conventional spiral tomography is to be preferred over reformatted CT and when CT is the only technique at hand, it can be performed with a lowered radiation dose.

Eva Borg (1999):

 “Some characteristics of solid-state and photo-stimulable phosphor detectors for intra-oral radiography”.
 Different solid-state and systems for digitalt intra-oral radiography were evaluated concerning physical characteristics, psychophysical performance, and subjective image quality. Some differences were found between the different systems concerning physical and psychophysical performances. All systems produced diagnostically acceptable image quality; the photo-stimulable phosphor systems over a much wider exposure range than the solid-state systems.

Agneta Lith (2001):

 “Frequency of Radiographic Caries Examinations and Development of Dental Caries”
Retrospective studies of serial (age 6-19) bitewing radiographs from 514 patients showed that in populations with low caries prevalence a restrictive attitude towards operative treatment of proximal lesions can be consistent with, on the average, prolonged intervals between radiographic examinations. Provided individually based radiographic scheduling and extensive preventive no increased need of endodontic treatment seems to result.

Arne Petersson
Department of Oral Radiology,
Malmo university
email: arne.petersson@od.mah.se
 

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    It is very late to contulate Professor Hajime Fuchihata, President and all organizers for their great success on making the 12th International Congress of IADMFR in Osaka, Japan, in 1999.

    On this occasion I would like to congratulate Professor X-chen Ma and his organizing committees for their great success on the arrangement of the 3rd Asian Congress of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology (ACOMFR) in Beijing during July 6-9, 2000.
    Our members from Thailand who atteneded the 12 International Congress of IADMFR in Osaka were quite a large number, seven members out of nine plus two non-members. Two members from UNC, USA; one from ACTA, Netherlands;  one from TMDU, Tokyo, Japan; and the others from Thailand.

    Concerning the Thai Society of Oral Diagnostic Science (TSODSc) which includes oral medicine, oral pathology, oral radiology and oral occlusion, the annual meeting of 1999 was held at Faculty of Dentistry, Chulalongkorn University on December 1999. Professor S. Kanda from faculty of Dentistry, Kyushu University, Japan, was a guest specker. On February 22, 2001, Associate Professor J.B. Ludlow from department of Diagnostic Sciences and GeneralDentistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel, U.S.A. was a special guest of TSODSc and Faculty of Dentistry, Chulalongkorn University. His special lecture was Web Base Instruction Technology: DDS and DH Students Performance and Preference Outcome for Learning normal Radiographic Anatomy.

    Advancement of Special Training Program in Oral Diagnostic Sciences to receive Diplomate Thai Board of Oral Diagnostic Science is completely formed. Associate professor Wichitsak Cholitkul one of our member is one of the committee.
    I am looking forward to seeing all of you in Glasgow soon,

    With best regards,

Anonknart Bhakdinaronk DDS,MS.
 Phone and Fax: 66 55 261-197
Faculty of Dentistry of Dentistry E-mail: anonknartb@nu.ac.th
Naresuan University banonkna@chula.ac.th
Phitsanulok 65000
e-mail: anonknartb@yahoo.com

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There is little to report from this side of the ocean. We are excitedly looking forward to the next international meeting that takes place in Glasgow this year. We send salutations to the many people who are preparing for this meeting. Having been involved in the arrangements of such a meeting in a very small way, I recognize the vast amount of work
that such a meeting entails. I know the people who are arranging this meeting and thus, I can guarantee all the congress goers that this will be a mostsuccessful meeting from every aspect. Many of these same people were involved in the arrangements for the IADMFR Congress that took place in London about 20 years ago and the oldies amongst us, will recall what a great meeting that was.

    Here in the US we are preparing for the next annual scientific meeting of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology. As there will be people from the rest of the world who will be attending this meeting,
and one requires to plan well in advance for these meetings, I will record the place and the date of our next meeting. The Annual Session will be at the Benson Hotel in Portland, Oregon from October 3 -7. Please accept
this as a personal invitation to attend the meeting.

    If any one requires more information about the meeting here in the US, please feel free to contact me at njs2@columbia.edu or Dr. Kevin O’Carroll.

Neill Serman, Professor and Head,
Division of Oral Radiology,
School of Dentistry, Columbia University
630 West 168 Street, New York, N. Y. 10032
Telephone 212 305-5674 email njs2@columbia.edu
Fax 718 796-0400
 

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  It is with great pleasure that we welcome the new members of our Association:
 

Juan Carlos R. Remy	Argentina	remy@neunet.com.ar
Richard Num	Australia	num@email.com
John Stolz	Australia	gin@jstolz.freeserve.co.uk
Tom Preneel	Belgium	tom.preneel@lamoral.be
Elismauro Mendonca	Brazil	elismaur@odonto.ufg.br
Elio G. Papaiz	Brazil
Xiaojiang Yang	Finland	xiaojiang.yang@oulu.fi
Edgar Hirsch	Germany	hirsche@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
Dirk Schulze	Germany	dschulze@uke.uni-hamburg.de
Maurice J. Fitzgerald	Ireland	mfsc@gofreeindigo.ie
Bertrud Levdor Samovici	Israel	levdor@zahav.net.il
Carlo Procacci	Italy
Toru Chikui	Japan	chikui@rad.dent.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Kawai Taisuke	Japan	t-kawai@rc4.so-net.ne.jp
Toshikazu Yamada	Japan	orlymda@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Deimante Ivanauskaite	Lithuania	deimantei@hotmail.com
Eva-Britta Näslund	Norway	evabn@odont.uio.no
Eva Margrete Stermer	Norway	evamsbo@odont.uio.no
Chow Arthur Hin-Ko	Republic of China
Kwai-Hung Chung	Republic of China	ckh@glink.net.hk
Elizabeth Shio	Republic of China	sgechan@netvigator.com
Mirriam M.Y.W. Wong	Republic of China
Sander van Daatselaar	The Netherlands	a.v.daatselaar@acta.nl
Emiel H. Verdonschot	The Netherlands	e.verdonschot@dent.kun.nl
Tom K. Mutyabule	Uganda	tmutyabule@hotmail.com
Joseph E. Clarke	United Kingdom
James R. Foote	United Kingdom	jim.foote@wshc.swest.nhs.uk
Jamil Makdissi	United Kingdom	jimmy.makdissi@kcl.ac.uk
Petros Mapanda	United Kingdom	petros@lineone.net
Jocelyn Sewell	United Kingdom	jocelyn.sewell@kcl.ac.uk
Donald J. Thomson	United Kingdom	djthomson@btinternet.com
William H. Binnie	USA	wbinnie@tambcd.edu
Richard Centala	USA	richard.centala@usa.instrumentarium.com
Jack P. Chow	USA	chowodont@hotmail.com
Mark Drangsholt	USA	drangs@uwashington.edu
Diane J. Flint	USA	djflint@satx.rr.com
Audrey Furkart	USA	audrey.furkart@tufts.edu
Arthur Goren	USA	SAG105@AOL.COM
John C. Guidry	USA	guidryj@uthscsa.edu
Manon Paquette	USA	paquette@uthscsa.edu
Gail Williamson	USA	gwilliam@iupui.edu

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    The Seventh International Congress on Computed Maxillofacial Imaging (CMI) will be held in conjunction with the 15th CARS conference, International Congress Center, Berlin, Germany, June 27-30, 2001.

    Registration packages are available through Mrs. Franziska Schweikert, Im Gut 11/15, D-79790 Kuessaberg, Germany. E.mail: francis.cars@d-plus.net

    The tentative CMI program is listed below:

    CMI  PROGRAM  2001

    Tutorial: Computer-aided maxillofacial diagnosis and treatment.
                   Allan G. Farman, Ph.D. (USA) and Silvio Bianchi, M.D. (Italy).

    Scientific Session #1: Technological advances in computed maxillofacial imaging.
    Co-Chairpersons: Hikmet Umar, D.D.S., Ph.D. (USA); Taeko T. Farman D.M.D., Ph.D. (USA).

    Interactive simulation of tooth cleaning: Gockel, et al. (Germany).

    The virtual articulator – concepts and development of virtual reality tools to analyze dysfunction of the dental occlusion: Kordass and Gartner (Germany).

    3-D operation simulation of craniofacial deformities in a virtual reality environment: Zeilhofer et al. (Germany).
 

    Comparison of three radiographic techniques to determine periimplant bone levels: Schliephake et al. (Germany).

    Clinical evaluation of digital panoramic x-ray system with high speed mode. Kanda et al, (Japan).

    Tuned-aperture computed tomography accuracy in tomosynthetic assessments for dental procedures: Farman et al. (USA).

    DentoCAT – a novel design of a cone-beam CT scanner for dentomaxillofacial imaging: Sukovic et al. (USA).

    Three-dimensional image processing method for 3D multi image micro CT: Befu et al. (Japan).

    Practical model of 3D multi image micro CT for dental use: Arai et al. (Japan).
 

    Scientific Session #2: Treatment strategies using computed maxillofacial imaging.
    Co-Chairpersons: S. Kanda, D.D.S., Ph.D. (Japan); Silvio Bianchi, M.D. (Italy).

    A Marcov process in clinical dentistry – the prosthodontic cycle: Umar (USA).

    Frameless intraoperative navigation and referencing in maxillofacial surgery – advances and limitations: Schneider, et al. (Germany).

    Iso-surface volume rendering for oral implant surgery: Van Foreest-Timp and Lobregt (The Netherlands).

    The accuracy of the SNM-navigation system: Schultes, et al. (Austria).

    Computer-guided insertion of dental implants – a clinical evaluation: Brief, et al. (Germany).

    Accuracy of an image-guided system for oral implantology: Schermeier, et al. (Germany).

    Distributed 3D-operation planning by modern information technologies: Sader et al. (Germany).

    Computer and robot based operation theatre of the future for cranio facial surgery: Wörn and Mühling (Germany).

    Reducing artifacts in CT data used for building stereolithography models – clinical evaluation: Warnke, et al. (Germany).

    Additional topics of relevance to computed maxillofacial imaging will be presented in conjunction with sessions on image-guided surgery and computer-ided diagnosis.
 

    Session 3: Round Table Discussion: Maxillofacial Imaging Standards – panel – The Dental DICOM

    Poster Presentations

    CAD/CAM in lingual orthodontics. Jost-Brinkmann (Germany).

    Analysis of image quality of the Panoura 15 DigiPan: Satoh, et al. (Japan).

    Subjective image quality in digital panoramic radiography in relation to patient exposure: Scheifele, et al. (Germany).

    For further information, please contact Dr. Allan G. Farman at agfarm01@louisville.edu

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 Dear Colleague,

    It is with great pleasure that we invite you to attend the 14th International Congress of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology, to be held in Florianópolis, Brasil, from May 19 to 23, 2003. This will be the first Congress of the International Association of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology (IADMFR) to be held in South America after its foundation in Chile in 1968. This “come back” is one of the reasons why we are extremely excited about it. The 14th Congress intends to promote the advancement of our specialty and to bring together people from all over the world who are involved with or interested in Radiology, and to encourage the exchange of scientific and social experiences among them. Please join us in the excitement! You can be sure that the organizing committee will do all its possible and impossible to provide you with a fruitful and pleasant Congress.

    Brasil, land of all Brazilians and all peoples, will know how to meet the expectations of those who come. Florianópolis, capital of the state of Santa Catarina, also known as the “Island of Magic”, has a variety of attractions to offer and will present you with some of the most spectacular beaches you have ever seen in life. The state of Santa Catarina itself is known for its diversity of landscapes. In a radius of almost 80Km straightforward you will admire, in one direction, the Atlantic Ocean; in another direction, you will enjoy the clear and therapeutical thermal waters which gush in unfailing fountains, and also vast tracts of open country with pine trees where the pure air and the prairies will transport you to a real rural scenery. Diverse is also its people, originated from the mixing of several races, including Portuguese, German and Italian descents, which resulted in a happy and nice people, who have a special and warm way to receive tourists, making them feel at home.

    Come and see it all! We will be waiting for you….

    Edemir Costa
    President IADMFR 2001-2003
    Murillo Abreu Jr.
    Vice-President 2001-2003

 http://www.iadmfr-brasil.ufsc.br  e-mail: 14icdmfr@web.ufsc.br

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