Awards & Competitions
Jens Ove Andreasen Lifetime Achievement Award
The Jens Ove Andreasen Lifetime Achievement Award is the most prestigious IADT award and is bestowed to outstanding individuals who have shown dedication and leadership over the years to IADT.

Award Winners:
2024 Paul Abbott
2021 Geoff Heithersay
2020 Lars Andersson
and
2020 M. Lamar Hicks
2018 Mitsuhiro Tsukiboshi
2016 Marie Flores
2014 Martin Trope
2013 Leif Bakland
2012 Jens Andreasen
Tsukiboshi Award for Research in Dental Traumatology
Tsukiboshi Award for Research in Dental Traumatology will be awarded annually based on a competition that will be held by the International Association of Dental Traumatology (IADT). The award aims to encourage and recognize research excellence in the fields of Dental Traumatology.
The award will be presented by the IADT to the authors of the best paper submitted to the competition prior to the deadline.
The IADT is pleased to announce that the 2024 Tsukiboshi Award for Research in Dental Traumatology is now OPEN!
APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 28, 2025
Details:
- Only IADT members in good standing may enter (one paper submission per IADT member).
- The IADT member must be the first or last author of the paper.
- The paper must be published in the journal Dental Traumatology (Early View) between January 1st and December 31st of the same year of the competition (e.g., papers submitted for the 2024 award competition must be published between January 1st 2024 and December 31st 2024).
- Cash prizes will be awarded for the best paper submitted for the competition during the calendar year as judged by the IADT research committee or judging panel.
- Winning entries will be posted on the IADT website and in the IADT Newsletter.
Prizes:
- First place prize winner will receive US $1000
- Second place prize winner will receive US $500
Submission Format:
COVER PAGE: A cover page should include the title, submitting author name, affiliation, address and contact email.
JUSTIFICATION: A justification statement of no more than 250 words should introduce the paper and its importance to the field of Dental Traumatology.
PUBLISHED PAPER: The full text PDF of the submitted paper as appears on the Dental Traumatology website.
The award will be presented to the first or last author of the paper (must be an IADT member in good standing for the publication year).
JUDGING CRITERIA: An independent judging panel, using standardized assessment rubric, will evaluate the following:
- Originality
- Methodology
- Results quality and presentation
- Novelty
- Potential impact
- Overall quality/worthiness of the paper
Cash prizes will be awarded based on the above assessment criteria. If the judges agree that no paper is of sufficient quality to be awarded a prize, the IADT reserves the right not to award a prize for the calendar year.
SUBMISSION OPEN: January 20, 2025
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 28, 2025
SUBMISSION PROCESS: Manuscript to be sent directly to IADT@IADT-DentalTrauma.org Subject Line: Tsukiboshi Award for Research in Dental Traumatology
Past Recipients of the Tsukiboshi Award for Research in Dental Traumatology
2023 Award Recipients
Dr. Dick Barendregt, USA
Affiliation: Adams School of Dentistry , University of North, Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA)
Affiliation: Department of Child Dental Health, School of Dentistry, University of Leeds, UK.
Research Paper titled: Improving data quality from routine clinical appointments – development of a minimum dataset for traumatic dental injuries in children and adolescents.