Introduction

Professor Stephen Challacombe of the Guys Kings and St Thomas' Dental Institute (GKT) of Kings College London was inaugurated as the 82nd President of the International Association for Dental Research at the recent meeting of the IADR in Goteborg, Sweden.

He is only the third British president in the 82 years of the IADR following Martin Rushton in 1965, and Graham Embery in 2001. Professor Challacombe holds the Martin Rushton Chair in Oral Medicine at GKT, and has previously been President of the British Society for Dental Research, of the British Society for Oral Medicine and of the Metropolitan Branch of the BDA.