The main objective of APEC is to provide its members with good Quality meetings and to provide social events to cultivate and foster close professional relationships between members in the Asian Pacific Region. The theme of the 16 ^th scientific meeting is "Access to success in Endodontics in the Asian Pacific region ", which includes the provision of good speakers, interesting topics and covering broad areas of endodontic sciences and practical subjects. The local organizing committee works to advance the endodontic sciences by providing learning experiences through well known lecturers, covering main topics, discussing interesting cases and new development in endodontics. In this meeting we will maintain our usual format of a session devoting to a series of presentations from our council or representatives.

We will organize a workshop for the member representative of endodontic societies to discuss the need to improve the quality of standards; this concept will certainly aid the society's objective of promoting the study and practice of endodontics in the Asia Pacific Region. This is only possible because of the help and support of council members.

 

I must express my deepest gratitude to all in advance. In particular, Prof. Hideaki SUDA (Japan) and Prof. Sung Kyo Kim (Korea) for their support and advice. Dr. Seung Tae Kim (Australia), Treasurer and secretary, for his responsibility of maintaining the finances and running of the APEC with all its attendant correspondence. Dr Ralph Reid, Editor-in-chief of AEJ, for enhancing the status of the society affiliated to it throughout the world and the Australian Dental Association for sponsoring our Website:  http://www.ada.org.au/Societies/APEC/.  and also Dr Phillippe O Zimet for his work to update APEC events. I am also grateful to the local organizing committee chair, Dr Fariborz Moazami, for working hard to prepare a successful program.   Details of this meeting should be available on our congress web site:  www.apec2011-iran.com