During World War I, US did not have Dental Corps yet because of which lot of dentists volunteered for surgery with their medical colleagues.
Lot of oral surgeons in the earlier part of 20th century had their medical degrees which allowed them to work with facial trauma in the World War I.
Some of the early dentists who progressed the speciality in many different ways were Varaztad Kazanjian, Robert H. Ivy, Carl W. Waldron.
AAOMS also played a key role in creating the first American edition of Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in 1943.
AAOMS publishes the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and conducts the Daniel M. Laskin Award for an Outstanding Predoctoral Educator.