On the initiative of the International Dental Federation, a meeting of consultants was convened by the World Health Organization in 1964 to consider the classification of diseases of the buccal cavity in relation to the impending Eighth (1965) Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). It was recognized that a manual and guide should be compiled to assist in the application of the ICD to dentistry and stomatology. Accordingly, a text was drafted and tested in four countries, then revised and published for general use. The first version of the Application of the International Classification of Diseases to Dentistry and Stomatology (ICD-DA) was issued in English in.
