title: [Construction and promotion of prosthodontics based on health sciences: for the achievement of a long life and good health cultivated by occlusion and mastication].
abstract: Prosthodontics is a practical science based on life sciences and health sciences, and takes a role to contribute to the improvement of people's health and welfare. It is true the main field of prosthodontics and/or prosthodontic treatments is oral rehabilitation including recoveries of morphological defects and the functional disability caused by teeth loss. From this point of view, I am sure that the ultimate target of prosthodontics and/or prosthodontic treatments is maintenance and improvement of patient's QOL. To achieve this purpose, I think research, education, and clinical practice to be inseparable and integral in prosthodontics. This ensures that prosthodontics become more academic which can contribute to the society more greatly. Advertisement disclosure of "Prosthodontic Specialist certified by Japan Prosthodontic Society" is our earnest wish. The specialist system is regarded to be effective for the improvement of the medical treatment level, the information provision to the patient, and the promotion of cooperation hospital and clinic. On the other hand, the high quality treatments are severely requested and the specialists are strictly evaluated by the many people more than before. We have to be aware of our responsibility as Prosthodontic Specialists. In addition, Japan Prosthodontic Society is a corporate judicial person, and there is obligation and a responsibility that transmit necessary information to the society certainly and promptly, and present various proposals based on EBM as the opinion leader. Concretely, it is necessary to promote basic researches as well as clinical researches on prosthodontic treatments, and to examine the improvement of educational methods of prosthodontics. Let's reconfirm the purpose of our Society written in the article of incorporation and make an effort to achieve this purpose!
authors.affiliation: Department of Occlusion and Removable Prosthodontics, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido School of Dentistry, Japan. hirai@hoku-iryo-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Toshihiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hirai
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D011476:Prosthodontics / Q000592:standards; D011788:Quality of Life; D012380:Role; D013038:Specialization