The International College of Dentists is an eminent honorary organization of the World’s outstanding dentists, who by their action have demonstrated an abiding interest and concern for their profession. Its mission in general is to foster international understanding and fellowship through the promotion and advancement of the science and art of dentistry, in the interest of improved oral and general health for all people.

It was in November 1920; Dr. Ottofy passed Japan on his way back to USA after 23 years stay in the Philippines. At a farewell party given to honor Dr. Louis Ottofy in Tokyo, Japan that he broached the idea of establishing the International College of Dentists (ICD) with Dr. Tsurukichi Okumura. His impassioned speech exhorted his colleagues to “keep learning what progress our profession is making in all parts of the world.” The ICD, Philippines Section Inc. accepted this challenge and committed to carry on the vision and mission exhorted by Dr. Ottofy with the hope to learn, with the hope to give too, its share to the dentists, the patients, the country and the profession. Dr. Eladio R. Aldecoa was the first Filipino ICD Fellow recorded in the 1928 roster of its members, verified by the letter from the Secretary General, Franklin M. Kenward dated 29 April, 1976. He was a former Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Prosthetic Dentistry, University of the Philippines, School of Dentistry. In later years, Dr. Aldecoa would found a dental school, the College of Oral and Dental Surgery.

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.

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