I hope you are all well, healthy and safe.
I would like to start out by extending my warmest wishes for this new year. May it be full of health and prosperity in these trying times.
 
Today, I have the huge responsibility to chair the Board of the Digital Dentistry Society for the 2022/2023 term. This is a very big challenge because DDS has become the most active Society in our field today, not only by its role, which has become essential for the validation of the processes and tools used in guided dentistry, but for the outstanding contribution of all its experts, board members, ambassadors, and certified active members to research.
From a scientific standpoint, productions of potentially highly valuable articles is scientifically peer-reviewed and if accepted, published in the DDS official Journal; “Journal of Dentistry, Digital Section” with Impact factor 4.3.
This organization, which aims to build the basis of eventual proof of concepts and feeds continuing education programs, while giving guidance to manufacturers to their products improvements, wants to serve no other purpose than helping digital dentists learn, stay updated to ultimately provide better care to their patients.
This was the primary and ongoing objective of the DDS since it was founded 7 years ago by a small group of digital experts and pioneers. This small group took turns to chair the Board and still today, remains active to uphold the initial philosophy behind the DDS.
Today, to widely spread this noble spirit, DDS has National branches (Embassies), Active members, cooperation agreements with Scientific Societies and Universities in about 60 countries worldwide.
As such, in addition to some new projects, my mission for the next 2 years will be to ensure the continuity of these essential actions which have already been initiated by the previous boards and which have been slowed down due to the COVID-19 crisis.