At its 2018 international congress in Aachen in Germany, members of the World Federation for Laser Dentistry (WFLD) left the expert society in order to revert to the original International Society for Laser Dentistry (ISLD). In this interview with laser magazine, Leon Vanweersch, a member of the ISLD organisation board and the Academic Coordinator of the Aachen Dental Laser Center (AALZ), talks about the current state of the new old expert society, the major challenges that laser dentistry is facing today, and the benefits for aspiring laser dentists of the reselection of RWTH Aachen University as a University of Excellence for the third time—the Excellence Initiative seeks to promote the German higher education sector...
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