Awards
Recognizing & Celebrating the Best
This award is the highest achievement award of the WFO, recognizing outstanding contributions and services for the benefit and advancement of the orthodontic profession and the WFO.
The WFO Regional Award of Merit was created in 2015 to recognize WFO members who make significant contributions to orthodontics, whether through academic, research, clinical practice or organized orthodontic pursuits.
This annual award was created to recognize the principle author and co-authors (if any) of an original article judged to be the most outstanding piece published in the JWFO in the preceding year.
Honorary membership is the highest honor awarded by the WFO. Any individual, orthodontist or not, who is deemed to have rendered outstanding service to the specialty of orthodontics worldwide may be nominated for Honorary Fellowship.
This annual award, named for former WFO President Dr. Roberto Justus, is presented to fellows aged 38 and under who have excelled in the field of orthodontics and deserve support to present their work internationally.
This award, named for former WFO President Dr. Lee W. Graber, is presented to WFO Fellows who provide a story that demonstrates a patient’s “changed life” due to orthodontic treatment.
Named for former WFO President Dr. Athanasios E. Athanasiou, this annual award is presented to WFO Fellows who have excelled in their completed Master’s thesis from a WFO affiliate-recognized orthodontic specialty training program.
This annual award, named for former WFO President Dr. Allan R. Thom, is presented to patients of WHO Fellows or student members who have related a story of orthodontics in the form of a two-dimensional art piece in any medium.
Lee W. Graber Orthodontics Changing Lives Award
This award, named for former WFO President Dr. Lee W. Graber, is presented to WFO Fellows who provide a story that demonstrates a patient’s “changed life” due to orthodontic treatment.