The following abstracts were selected from the invited keynote papers and abstracts presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the International Society for Maxillofacial Rehabilitation by the IJP editor-in-chief and editorial board member John Beumer. Space limitations precluded the publication of all presentation abstracts. In the future, the IJP will not routinely publish abstracts of papers presented at meetings of its sponsoring organizations. It is felt that they belong in, and form, an integral part of such meetings' annual and/or biennial scientific program publications.