2012 Frechette Award.

摘要

As I and others conducted these programs, international interest and awareness in the field of maxillofa-cial prosthetics increased substantially, most recently in the third world. This increased interest eventually led to the establishment of the International Society for Maxillofacial Rehabilitation (ISMR) in the early 1990s and has spawned several new national organizations devoted to the art and study of maxillofacial prosthetics. Our most recent efforts (India in 2007 and China in 2009] have been particularly productive. Following outreach visits to China and India, national organizations devoted to maxillofacial rehabilitation were formed in each of these countries. The ISMR meeting for the year 2014 will be held in Xi'an, China, and will be conducted by the newly formed National Society of Maxillofacial Prosthetics. As a result of these activities, the level of expertise and the standard of care in these countries have been raised dramatically, as has their commitment to a multidis-ciplinary approach to care. Other outreach activities conducted by our group have contributed to the formation of well-established maxillofacial prosthetics programs in Italy, Hungary, Serbia, South Korea, and Thailand.