The joint IADR/SEAADE meeting will include oral and poster presentations.
Applicants may indicate their preferred mode of presentation and the
Scientific Committee will make every effort to comply with the request
of the authors. In the event that your request is not honored, and you
wish to have your abstract withdrawn, you must indicate this desire
on the abstract form. In the absence of an expressed wish to have an
abstract removed, participants are obliged to present in the assigned
mode. Applicants are encouraged to take an active part in both the IADR
and SEAADE sections of the meeting. The SEAADE section will focus on
the education of oral health care workers. An individual participating
in the joint meeting can submit only one abstract and present only one
paper in each of the IADR and SEAADE sections of the joint meeting.
Presenters may appear as co-author on other abstracts.
Where to submit
Normal mode of abstract submission is online via IADR website www.iadr.com.
Full detailed instructions are available from the website. For those
without internet access, hard copy and floppy disk or CD containing
the abstract can be send to:
KY Zee
Secretary of IADR SEA Division
Faculty of Dentistry, University of Hong Kong 3/F, Prince Philip Dental
Hospital 34 Hospital Road
Hong Kong
Tel: +852-28590300 Fax: +852-28587874 E-mail:
kyzee@hku.hk
SEAADE Abstract - please send mail or e-mail to
Varawan Sae-Lim
Secretary of SEAADE
Faculty of Dentistry, National University of Singapore National University
Hospital 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119074 Tel: 65 6772 4987
Fax: 65 6778 5742
E-mail: rsdvsl@nus.edu.sg
Abstract preparation instructions
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Abstract Forms ]
It is important that you follow the abstract preparation instructions.
Those submitting hard copies must do so on the appropriate forms provided.
If you require additional forms, the original forms may be photocopied
or downloaded. Type your abstract directly onto either an original form
or photocopied form. The blank form can be downloaded here.
In order to achieve a uniform style for publication in the Abstracts
Book, authors are requested to conform to the following (See Abstract
Example):
Title: The title' should indicate the content of the
abstract in a concise manner. Start the title on the first line inside
the box.
Authors: List each author's name in capital letters
after the title. The name should include the first and middle initials:
The name of the institution(s) must follow the name of the last author.
Contents: The abstract must contain a brief statement
of the objectives of the investigation, experimental methods used, essential
results, including data and, where appropriate, statistics. Where a
supporting grant has been received, the agency and grant number should
be quoted. All text should be fitted within the box of the abstract
form.
Font: Authors are required to use Times Roman with
minimum font size of 11. Abstracts that have been either reduced before
submission or printed in small type will be refused.
Deadline
Deadline for submission of abstracts - 1
June 2005
Notification of acceptance of abstract will be made no later than 15
July 2005 by Fax or E-mail. Pre-registration deadline
- 1 August 2005
Abstract Rejection Criteria
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Abstract poorly organized
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Required information not given
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Nature of problem not explicit
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Material too closely related to another submitted
abstract
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Abstract not original research
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Abstract has been previously presented at another
meeting
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Problem fairly well defined, but its importance
doubtful
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No well defined criteria given for evaluation
of
variable
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Choice of controls questionable
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No control groups reported
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Methods to obtain data not appropriate
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Conclusions not clear
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Conclusions do not necessarily follow as a
consequence of the method of analysis applied to
the data
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Conclusions have greater limitations than implied
by
the author
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Correlations suggested are fortuitous and none
is
obvious
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Abstract is not printed in English