Contents - IADR/AADR

development of dentistry, and which add to the knowledge of the mouth and teeth and of their relations
to the body as a whole; and further, (b) to encourage and facilitate cooperative effort and achievement
by, and mutual helpfulness among, investigators in all nations in every division of stomatology; (c) to
the end, particularly, that dentistry may render cumulatively more perfect service to humanity.
ARTICLE III. PROHIBITION OF COMMERCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
This Association shall in no way enter into, or foster, relations with commercial organizations, nor with
makers of appliances or of anything else used in the art of dentistry by the dental profession, or in the
care and treatment of the oral structures by the laity.
ARTICLE IV. MEMBERSHIP
SECTION 1. Eligibility. Any person who has conducted, and published an account of, a meritorious
original investigation in dental science, or in any of the sciences contributory to stomatology, shall be
eligible to membership in this Association, providing such person conforms to the recognized standards
of professional ethics.
SECTION 2. Nomination.
(A) Nominations to membership may be made at any time by any member. Each nomination
must be formally endorsed by two additional members, who know personally and certify from
specific knowledge, that the candidate for membership is eligible, before the nomination can be
registered for official presentation to the Association.
(B) Each endorsed nomination for membership must be formally presented to the Council of the
Association, with three copies each of one or more publications which show that the nominee
meets the requirement of eligibility relating to research achievement.
(C) The Council shall determine, in the case of each nomination, whether the nominee fully
meets the requirements of eligibility. The Council shall report promptly to the Association the
details of its findings in this relation, and also such recommendations as it may wish to offer with
its report.
SECTION 3. Election.
(A) New members may be elected only at annual meetings of the Association.
(B) Election to membership shall be by ballot by the individual members. A two-thirds
affirmative vote of the ballots cast shall be necessary for election. Substitution of any other
parliamentary procedure for that of a secret ballot shall invalidate all elections to membership
that may be accomplished in such an irregular way.
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