Dear AALZ and RWTH Aachen University Alumni,

today, we would like to introduce you to the World Academy for Laser Education in Dentistry (WALED).

WALED is the new academic and educational worldwide network of AALZ and has been established to realize an international academy of excellence for postgraduate education and research in laser dentistry.

You, as a graduate from AALZ and RWTH Aachen University will automatically be a member of this academy!

The goal of WALED is to standardize education concepts based on evidence based research as well as treatment protocols based on evidence based preclinical and clinical research.

WALED members will be integrated in long-term clinical multi-center studies and collaborate to publish clinical cases in different journals (Laser Magazine, LIMS, Laser Books, Databases).

WALED will organize every year 2 symposia of which one symposium will be held in Aachen on the last day of the Master of Science Exams in September and one symposium in the first half of the year, linked to the countries of AALZ branches and AALZ academic co-workers.

An academic rating agency in laser dentistry will be established.  The journals “Lasers in Medical Science” (LIMS) and “LASER, the international magazine of laser dentistry” are the official publication organs and newsletter for WALED.

The Mission of WALED is 

• to provide outstanding postgraduate educational programs and to offer lifelong learning opportunities for the laser supported dentistry profession
• to offer high-quality, state-of-the-art oral health care, which includes health promotion, disease prevention and intervention
• to encourage innovation in oral healthcare delivery to meet changing global healthcare needs
• to conduct research that generates and applies biomedical, behavioral, and clinical knowledge and technology to health and disease
• to promote the transfer of technology to the dental care delivery system
• to impact health globally using resources that will influence the healthcare beliefs of the public and, thereby, the knowledge, skills, values, and beliefs of healthcare professionals

Fill out registration form PDF below) and send it back to us to officially register as a FREE member of WALED!

There are several options to choose:

1. You can register as a FREE WALED Member:
2. You can register as a FREE WALED Member and receive a high-value annual Membership certificate
3. You can register as a FREE WALED Member and receive the two official WALED Journals: “Lasers in Medical Science” (LIMS, six issues per year) and “Laser: International Magazine for laser dentistry” (four issues per year).

At the moment, we are in negotiations with the publishers to offer you the best price.(WLFD members will not receive the LIMS subscription anymore from 2012 on)

As one of the first activities we would like to cordially invite you to the 1^st International WALED Symposium that will take place on 14-16 June 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey!