The search for oral science
Kanemitsu Shirasuna · Oral Science International · 2011
The search for oral science Oral Science International (OSI) is the official journal of the Japanese Stomatological Society (JSS). The JSS is one of the specialist medical societies of the Japanese Association of Medical Science (JAMS).The predecessor association of the Japanese Stomatological Society started out in Tokyo in 1913 with physicians and dentists who worked at the Department of Dentistry or Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in Medical Schools National University.Between 1951 and 1970, some of these departments developed into dental schools in the national universities.After the JSS was founded in Tokyo in 1918, there was an annual meeting every year and the journals, the first to vol. 25 no.73, were issued from 1919 to 1943.Unfortunately, however, these were interrupted for several years during the Second World War.The JSS resumed its regular activities, and the annual meeting has been held in different places since the first meeting in Osaka in 1947.The Journal of the Japanese Stomatological Society has been published regularly 4, 5, 6, and 4 times every year in 1952-1988, 1989-1998, 1999-2003, and 2004-present, respectively.The purpose of the JSS is to promote knowledge of oral science and unity in the Stomatological Society.The JSS was incorporated as a non-profit organization in 2004, and we launched the first issue of the English journal, Oral Science International, in the same year to encourage and foster young and potential researchers and clinicians in the fields of dentistry and oral science around the world.It is important to understand that oral science is a part of life science but its specialty is to study the oral and maxillofacial region.It is an interdisciplinary, applied science related to dentistry, medicine, molecular and cellular biology, chemistry, developmental biology, neurobiology, physiology, immunology, microbiology, biomaterials, and engineering.The oral and maxillofacial structure, which has a complex origin arising from a number of head elements, consists of soft tissues including facial and masticatory muscles and hard tissues including jaw bones and teeth.Congenital abnormalities including cleft lip and palate often occur, and so studies on normal and abnormal face development during the embryonic and fetal periods are important.