Welcome to The Japanese Society of Conservative Dentistry Home Page.

The Central Office is located at:

The Japanese Society of Conservative Dentistry,
c/o Oral Health Association of Japan (Koku Hoken Kyokai),
Komagome TS Bldg., 1-43-9 Komagome, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 170-0003, Japan
TEL: +81-3-3947-8891, FAX: +81-3-3947-8341
gakkai8@kokuhoken.or.jp

Background

The Japanese Society of Conservative Dentistry, founded in 1955, is made up of specialists from all dental schools in Japan. Our members also include private and hospital dental practitioners. We remain the only dental society that covers the whole area of conservative dentistry, i.e., operative dentistry, endodontics and periodontology, in Japan.

Members

The society had 4,388 members and 54 honorary members as of 1 December 2010

General assembly

General Membership Meeting is held once a year in conjunction with the spring scientific meeting. Extraordinary Membership Meeting may be held in conjunction with the autumn scientific meeting.

Executive members (Term: 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2011)

President:
Masamichi TERASHITA, Kyushu Dental College
Vice-president:
Toshio TERANAKA, Kanagawa Dental College
Takashi ARAI, Tsurumi University School of Dental Medicine

Directors: 79
Standing directors: 17
Auditors: 2
Managers: 5

Executive meetings

Directors' meetings are held twice, and Standing directors' meetings and held four times per year, for the discussion of academic activities, budgets, committees' proceedings, etc.

Standing Committees

The Editorial Committee, chaired by Shogo TAKASHIBA
The Public Relations and Insurance Committee, chaired by Yoshihiko HAYASHI
The Dental Educational Committee, chaired by Masamitsu KAWANAMI
The Research Committee, chaired by Takashi MATSUO
The Long-range Planning Committee, chaired by Akira SENDA
The Terminology Committee, chaired by Masashi KOMATSU
The International Relation Committee, chaired by Katsumasa MAEDA
The Accredited Specialists Committee, chaired by Ichiro KATSUUMI
The Election Administration Committee, chaired by Koichi ITO
The Ethics Committee, chaired by Toshio TERANAKA
The Constitution and By-laws Committee, chaired by Toshio TERANAKA
The Awards Committee, chaired by Takashi ARAI
The Publicity Committee, chaired by Takashi OKIJI

Scientific meetings

Scientific meetings are held biannually in spring and autumn.

Future meetings:
The 134th JSCD Meeting, June 9-10, 2011, Chiba.
The 135th JSCD Meeting, November 17-18, 2011, Osaka.
The 136th JSCD Meeting, June 28-29, 2012, Okinawa.

Bulletins/Journals/News

"The Japanese Journal of Conservative Dentistry" is published bimonthly. The Journal includes articles concerning operative dentistry, endodontics and periodontology.

Research trends

1) Operative Dentistry
• Early caries detection
• Adhesion to tooth structure
• Esthetic restorative materials
• Durability of restoration
• Minimal intervention

2) Endodontology
• Pulp biology
• Endodontic biomaterials
• Rotary root canal instrumentation
• Endodontic application of cone beam CT
• Root canal irrigation
• Endodontic microbiology

3) Periodontology
• Etiology and epidemiology of periodontal diseases
• Immunology of periodontitis
• Periodontal tissue engineering
• Mucogingival and alveolar bone plastics
• Periodontal micro flora
• Supportive and sustainable tissue management

4) Interdisciplinary topics
• Dental tissue regeneration
• Clinical application of Lasers

Dental specialist system

The system for accredited specialist has been continued since 1991, to raise the quality in the area of conservative dentistry. The number of accredited specialists was 796 including 315 supervisors as of 1 December 2010.

International exchange

The Japanese Society of Conservative Dentistry (JSCD) signed a friendship agreement with the Korean Academy of Conservative Dentistry (KACD) on 1997. According to this agreement, international joint meetings are held every year, alternately in Japan and Korea. The 13th JSCD/KSCD Joint-Scientific Meeting will be held in Korea in 2011.

For more information, please mail to gakkai8@kokuhoken.or.jp