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General assembly
The 65th general assembly and annual scientific congress will be held at Hokkaido from May 30th to June 1st, 2025 under the auspices of President Prof. Kazuyuki MINOWA Dental Radiology, Department of Oral Pathobiological Science, Graduate School of Dental Medicine, Hokkaido University.
The chairman of the board of directors
Shumei MURAKAMI
Osaka University | Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology
Constitutional division and branch
The society has a Division of Diagnostic Imaging and its annual congress is held every year.
The society also has four regional branches, Northern Block, Kanto Block, Kansai Block and Kyushu Block.
Each of them has their scientific meetings up to three times a year.
Committees
Under construction
DENTAL IMAGE LAYOUT FOR INTRA-ORAL RADIOGRAPHY
This is the released standard of “DENTAL IMAGE LAYOUT FOR INTRA-ORAL RADIOGRAPHY”.
Prof. Katsumata Akitoshi
kawamata@dent.asahi-u.ac.jp
Scientific meetings
Two main scientific congresses, general scientific congress and congress of clinical imaging for oral and maxillofacial lesions are held annually.
The 64th general assembly and annual scientific congress was held at Niigata from May 24 to 26, 2024 under the auspices of President Prof. Takafumi HAYASHI. Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences.
The 5th autumn annual scientific congress was held at from November 3 to 5, 2023 under the auspices of President Prof. Shumei MURAKAMI. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Osaka University.
AAOMFR Asian Academy of Oral and Maxillo-Facial Radiology
http://www.aaomfr.org/AAOMFR/welcome.html
Bulletins/Journals/News
The society currently published 2 journals, “SHIKAHOUSHASEN (Dental Radiology)” in Japanese quarterly and “Oral Radiology” (in English) semiyearly.
Oral Radiology
The Official journal of the Japanese Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology (JSOMR)
Research trends
The research in the society covers not only the field of diagnostic imaging sciences, but also all the fields related to radiology including radiation physics, radiation biology, radiation protection, radiation oncology and medical informatics.
The current topics are particularly concerned with new technology and clinical research in imaging modalities such as digital imaging, US, CT, MRI and nuclear medicine for oral and maxillofacial diseases including recent progress in multislice CT and cone beam dental CT.
Specialists
- Board Qualified Specialist of the Japanese Society for Oral and
Maxillofacial Radiology（in Japanese：認定医）
the number of specialists： 476 - Board Certified Specialist of the Japanese Society for Oral and
Maxillofacial Radiology（in Japanese：専門医）
the number of specialists： 259 - Board Certified Consulting Specialist of the Japanese Society for
Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology（in Japanese：指導医）
the number of specialists： 102