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World Federation of Orthodontists: An orthodontic umbrella organization coordinating activities and pooling resources

The idea of a global orthodontic organization, the World Federation of Orthodontists (WFO), made up of national and regional orthodontic organizations, was realized in 1995 in San Francisco at the 4th International Orthodontic Congress that was held in conjunction with the 95th annual American Assoc...

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Autores principales: Thom, Allan R., Graber, Lee W., Maplethorp, F. Amanda, Vaid, Nikhilesh R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of World Federation of Orthodontists. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7532937/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33023729
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejwf.2020.09.005
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description The idea of a global orthodontic organization, the World Federation of Orthodontists (WFO), made up of national and regional orthodontic organizations, was realized in 1995 in San Francisco at the 4th International Orthodontic Congress that was held in conjunction with the 95th annual American Association of Orthodontists meeting. This umbrella organization strives to promote quality orthodontic care, practiced and delivered by orthodontic specialists in all parts of the world. In addition, it supports its member organizations with governing principles that promote appropriate membership criteria, qualified individual leadership participation, and long-term stability of the organization over time. In response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic, the WFO has responded proactively and plans to augment its digital resources even further in the near future. This article describes the formation of the organization, the idea that germinated through the first three international orthodontic congresses, its workflow and membership criteria, the accountability and commitment it has toward its affiliates and individual members, and its plans for future years to come.
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spelling pubmed-75329372020-10-05 World Federation of Orthodontists: An orthodontic umbrella organization coordinating activities and pooling resources Thom, Allan R. Graber, Lee W. Maplethorp, F. Amanda Vaid, Nikhilesh R. J World Fed Orthod WFO Special Article The idea of a global orthodontic organization, the World Federation of Orthodontists (WFO), made up of national and regional orthodontic organizations, was realized in 1995 in San Francisco at the 4th International Orthodontic Congress that was held in conjunction with the 95th annual American Association of Orthodontists meeting. This umbrella organization strives to promote quality orthodontic care, practiced and delivered by orthodontic specialists in all parts of the world. In addition, it supports its member organizations with governing principles that promote appropriate membership criteria, qualified individual leadership participation, and long-term stability of the organization over time. In response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic, the WFO has responded proactively and plans to augment its digital resources even further in the near future. This article describes the formation of the organization, the idea that germinated through the first three international orthodontic congresses, its workflow and membership criteria, the accountability and commitment it has toward its affiliates and individual members, and its plans for future years to come. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of World Federation of Orthodontists. 2020-10 2020-10-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7532937/ /pubmed/33023729 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejwf.2020.09.005 Text en © 2020 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of World Federation of Orthodontists. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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