The International College of Dentist is a collegial organization of dentists worldwide whose conspicuous and meritorious commitment to the profession earned for them an accolade of recognition by their peers. The following excerpt historically recorded how this prestigious organization was born.

At a farewell gathering of dentist in Tokyo, Japan in November 1920 given for Dr. Louis Ottofy who was returning to America to resume his practice of Dentistry after twenty-three (23) years in the Orient, Japan and the Philippines that the idea of founding the International College of Dentists was broached.
One of the speakers, Dr. Tsurukichi Okumura lamented the existing situation in dentistry, that there was no definite means for dentists living in distant places to keep abreast with what was occurring in our profession.