European Organization for Caries Research
| European Organization for Caries Research | |
|---|---|
| organization | Dental Scientific Society |
| founding | November 7, 1953 |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam |
| president | Christian Splieth |
| executive Director | Monique van der Veen |
| Homepage | www.orca-caries-research.org |
The European Organization for Caries Research ( ORCA ) is an international society for the research and prevention of dental caries . It goes back to the European Working Group for Fluorine Research and Caries Prevention (EAFK) founded in a working session on November 7th and 8th, 1953 in Konstanz . The current president is Christian Splieth from the University Medical Center Greifswald (as of 2019).
origin
After the Second World War , the Swiss dentist Hans Robert Held (1910–1998) and the German dentist Hans Joachim Schmidt (1907–1981) from Stuttgart were impressed by reports from the USA about the caries-inhibiting effect of drinking water containing fluoride, which the American dentist received Henry Trendley Dean (1893–1962) had studied. In the early 1950s, that news coincided with a dramatically increasing rate of tooth decay. In this context, on the one hand, a greater awareness of the dental profession was pointed out, and on the other hand, the nourishing time after the privations during World War II.
The goals of the organization were set as follows:
- Promote the study of the fluorine problem
- To preserve and protect the reputation of fluorine research and dental prophylactic measures and their scientific results as well as to counter abuse
- To bring the researchers working on this task together regardless of national borders.
Founding members were Held and Schmidt, Adolf Knappwost , Walter Drum , Hertha Hafer , Hans Heuser , Erwin Ott , Sepp Koller and H. Leonhardt from Austria, and the Swiss H. Schmid and Victor Demole. In the early 1950s, ORCA increasingly devoted itself to dental prevention . Until then, the focus in dentistry was on treating damage that had already developed, mainly by means of dental fillings or extractions . Dentistry was dominated by oral surgery . ORCA members sought a uniform basis for the DMFT index , with which epidemiological studies were carried out and which was accepted by both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the FDI World Dental Federation . Controversial discussions followed about the effects of fluoridation . The researchers' efforts are presented at the annual specialist congress from the start.
The organization initially used the Archives of Oral Biology journal as the publication medium , then for a few years the lectures at the annual congresses were published in book form as Advances in Fluorine Research and Dental Caries Prevention , until Caries Research was finally established as a journal in 1967 . It appears every two months and has an impact factor of 2,188.
Individual evidence
- ^ European working group for fluorine research and caries prophylaxis . Dental Communications 41: No 23 (1953) 704
- ↑ Greifswald dentist is now President of ORCA , ZWP, July 2, 2019. Accessed July 2, 2019.
- ↑ History of ORCA , ORCA, July 2015. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
- ↑ 10 years of ORCA . Dental Communications 53: No. 13 (1963) 593
- ^ Caries Research Journal , Karger Verlag. Retrieved June 10, 2019.