Dr. Herbert Schilder will be awarded the Alpha Omega International Dental Fraternity Achievement Medal in December.
This award is given in recognition of "meritorious contributions to dentistry and its allied sciences" and is Alpha Omega’s most prestigious honor. Past recipients include Albert Einstein, Jonas Salk and Henry M. Goldman.
Dr. Schilder has had a long career in organized dentistry, dental education and the clinical practice of endodontics. He is past president of the American Association of Endodontics, former director of the American Board of Endodontics and past first vice president of the ADA.
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Dr. Herbert Schilder
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He also is the founding professor of the Department of Endodontics at Boston University’s Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine. The Herbert Schilder Chair in Endodontics is the only named chair at the Goldman School of Dental Medicine. The Department of Endodontics has graduated 375 endodontists—12 percent of all the endodontists in North America.
Dr. Schilder’s clinical achievements include introducing the profession to the predictability of healing lesions of endodontic origin, defining the principles of cleaning and shaping, and developing the vertical compaction of warm gutta-percha technique.
