— Vol. XIX
Failure,
honestly
honestly
No. 1 · MMXXVI
72 — 256 pp.Read →
The quarterly journal of the association — peer-reviewed, no industry advertising, no pay-to-publish. Every published study releases de-identified data.
Acta Implantologica is read by every member as a matter of obligation, and by the wider profession as a matter of habit. Reviewers are named in the masthead; rebuttals are published; errata are dated.
Twenty issues are in continuous open access; older volumes are available on request. Indexed in PubMed, Scopus, and the association's own searchable archive of de-identified data.
Moreau A., Cárdenas R., Lefèvre H., Yamada S., Vance E. — Geneva, Madrid, Lyon, Kyoto, Edinburgh.
Abstract. Five centres, three hundred and forty-eight zygomatic implants, prospective audit at twelve, thirty-six, and sixty months. Cumulative implant survival 94.3% at sixty months; prosthetic survival 91.7%. Subgroup analysis by operator experience and platform shows no significant difference between the Nobel Biocare and Straumann zygomatic platforms when matched for bone availability. The paper recommends prospective registration of all zygomatic series and a standardised reporting template, included as the appendix.
Standards Council — drafted by I. Salgado & H. Lefèvre; statistical work by independent reviewer Z. Marković.
Abstract. An audited dataset of 9,217 implant procedures across the association membership over a three-year window. Attribution of failure to operator, to platform, to patient factor, and to documentation quality is presented with confidence intervals. Operator experience under five years correlates with a 1.8x failure rate, controlling for platform and patient factor. Failures with incomplete consent documentation are over-represented at 3.2x baseline; the paper argues this is a consent-quality signal, not a clinical one.
Vance E. — Edinburgh. Legal annex by Hoffman J. — Boston.
Abstract. A written-record consent protocol, distilled from sixteen years of expert-witness work in implant litigation. Eight elements: documented diagnosis, dated imaging, written rationale, alternatives discussed (including no treatment), named operator, foreseeable complications, twenty-four-hour cooling-off, and patient counter-signature. The legal annex reviews seven cases in which the protocol — or its absence — was decisive, and includes the recommended template.
Standards Council, signed minutes — Cárdenas R., Vance E., Yamada S., et al.
Summary. Six rulings, named in full. One removal (Holmgren, Article III); one twelve-month suspension (Brewer, Articles II & IV); one six-month suspension (Adesanya, Article V on default); one public censure (Kowalski, Article I); two private censures by negotiated finding (filed and published per by-law). Two cases were dismissed as not substantiated; the named members are cleared on the public record in the same issue.
Twenty-four letters with named signatories; six errata; nine replies from authors of prior issues.
Highlights. A letter from K. Watanabe revisiting the 2024 Kyoto loading-protocol paper with five-year data; a sharp exchange between B. Sjögren and the authors of the 2025 immediate-load series; one erratum on the Q4 2025 disciplinary archive (a registry number transposition, corrected). Letters are signed; anonymous correspondence is not accepted.
Reviewers, statistical editors, and the international advisory board — named in every issue. Reviews are signed; anonymity is not available.
Acta Implantologica accepts submissions from members and non-members. The editorial standard is the same for both. Manuscripts are read by the editor and, if not rejected at that desk stage, sent to two reviewers named in the published masthead. We do not anonymise reviewers; both author and reviewer are named in the published paper.
Editor-in-chief: Alessandra Moreau, F.I.A. — Geneva, since 2021.
Deputy editors: Rafael Cárdenas, F.I.A. — Madrid; Eleanor Vance, F.I.A. — Edinburgh; Peter Okoye, M.I.A. — Lagos.
Statistical editor: Henri Lefèvre, M.I.A. — Lyon, independent.
For submissions: [email protected].