Organizations Engaged in Preparing Standards for Dental Materials and Therapeutic Agents with a List of Standards

摘要

The first specification for dental materials was prepared by Dr. Wilmer Souder, a physicist at the National Bureau of Standards, in 1927. From this stemmed the specification and certification programs of the American Dental Association (1930) and all of the similar national and international programs. The Federation Dentaire Internationale (FDI) was the first in the international field (1953). Today the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) through its Technical Committee 106-Dentistry, organized in 1963, is the prime international agency formulating specifications for dental materials and devices. The FDI role by agreement with ISO/TC106 is the preparation for standards on clinical evaluations, on biological test methodology, on the preparation of informative reports on dental materials and therapeutic agents and on the proper methods of using them. Today there are 15 international and national agencies that have prepared about 900 specifications for dental materials and devices. These agencies and their addresses are listed, with a brief history of each, together with a list of the specifications and standards that they have promulgated.