主催: The Japanese Society for Dental Materials and Devices
In the context of this paper, standards are documents emanating from a 'standards organization', which is 'any entity whose primary activities are developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing, interpreting, or otherwise maintaining standards that address the interests of a wide base of users outside the standards development organization. An example from the dental field might be the standard for dental amalgam, which specifies several criteria such as compressive strength and the requirements for packaging and labelling. An example outside dentistry might be road traffic signs, where (at least in a single country or region) the designs and pictograms are standardized.
