A standing professional body of qualified implantologists, founded in 2007 to do one thing — make the choice safer for the patient. Everything else follows from that.
The Implantologists Association exists because a title is not a guarantee. Anyone, in most jurisdictions, can call themselves an implant specialist after a weekend course — and the patient has no public record to consult before they choose.
We hold our members to a written, dated, public standard. We document what they do, audit a random sample of it each year, and publish what we find. The mission is not education, not advocacy, not networking — it is the maintenance of a record on which a person seeking implant care can rely.
"I will be examined on entry, audited annually, and disciplined publicly if I fall below the standard I signed."
The association was founded in April 2007 by eleven implant specialists who had spent the previous decade as expert witnesses in litigation against colleagues. They had come to the same conclusion separately: the profession had no working mechanism for self-correction. The complaint procedures of the time were closed, slow, and quietly settled.
In its first year, the association admitted forty-two members under a probationary statute. Within five years it had passed its first independent audit and published its first disciplinary ruling — a removal — under the name of the operator concerned. That ruling stood, and the association has not lost a defamation suit since.
In 2014, the journal Acta Implantologica began quarterly publication. In 2018, the registry opened to the public. In 2021, the disclosure register — industry payments, equity, speaker fees — became mandatory and searchable. In 2024, the association was cited by The Lancet as the first professional body to publish its own disciplinary rulings without anonymisation and survive doing so.
The full charter is twenty-eight pages and lives at the Registrar's office. The clauses that matter most often are these:
Download the full charter (PDF, 218 KB).
We are not a marketing body. We do not recommend brands. We do not run a referral scheme that pays the association. We do not accept industry sponsorship of the congress, the journal, or the website. We do not anonymise the operator in a disciplinary ruling.
We are also not a regulator in the legal sense — we cannot suspend a licence in a member's country, and we do not pretend to. What we can do is publish a current record. A patient, an insurer, a hospital, a colleague — anyone — can read that record and act on it.
The treasurer publishes a quarterly statement on the first business day after each quarter end. Revenue, by category. Expenses, by category. The audit, on a fixed schedule, by an independent firm rotated every three years.
In FY 2025, total revenue was €1.94 M. The full breakdown below; the audited statement is filed every March.
| Revenue · FY 2025 | € | share |
|---|---|---|
| Member dues, all classes | 1,377,400 | 71% |
| Annual Congress fees | 271,600 | 14% |
| Journal subscriptions & licences | 174,600 | 9% |
| Named donations (no industry) | 116,400 | 6% |
| Total revenue | 1,940,000 | 100% |
| Expenses · FY 2025 | ||
| Standards Council, audit, hearings | 718,200 | 38% |
| Journal · editing, peer review, print | 415,800 | 22% |
| Education · Congress, Trainee Day, exams | 340,200 | 18% |
| Secretariat operations | 264,600 | 14% |
| Legal reserves & contingency | 151,200 | 8% |
| Total expenses | 1,890,000 | 97% |
The remaining 3% — €50,000 — is held in legal reserves for the defence of disciplinary rulings, where the association names a member and that member sues. The reserve has been drawn upon twice since 2007; both suits were dismissed and costs awarded to the association.
Read the most recent quarterly statement (PDF).
Every member files an annual disclosure: industry payments above €500, equity in any implant or biomaterials company, paid speaking, supplier exclusivity arrangements, and family interests in the same. The register is public, searchable by member, by company, and by year.
A member who fails to file is suspended after thirty days. A member who files falsely is referred to Standards, and the sanction is removal. There has been one such removal in the association's history; it is on the public record.
The association office is in Madrid. The Standards Council sits in Boston, Geneva, Edinburgh, and Lagos in rotation. Press enquiries are answered within one business day; complaints from patients are acknowledged the day they are received and ruled on within ninety days.
For the office, write to [email protected]. For complaints, see the patient-facing complaints page. For press, see press office.
If this is the kind of body you have been looking for, the next pages explain how to find one of our members, how to become one, and what the standard requires.