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A standing body of implantologists, & of the patients they answer to.

We admit on evidence, publish on rigour, and discipline on record. Membership is not bought. It is earned, examined, and renewed each year against a public standard.

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1,847*
Members in good standing
42
Countries represented
XIX
Journal volume, in print
19/year
Disciplinary rulings published
Article I · The Declaration

The association exists because a title is not a guarantee. We hold our members to a public standard, document what they do, and make that record findable — so that a person seeking implant care can choose with their eyes open.

— By order of the Council, 2007
Ratified annually since

What makes this body different.

Most professional bodies are membership clubs that publish a code of ethics. We are membership-by-examination, with rulings that name names. Six concrete differences.

Difference I

Admission by examination, not subscription.

A practitioner cannot pay their way in. Two written examinations, an oral defence before three Fellows drawn by lot, twelve case files reviewed independently — these things take eight months on average, and they fail 59% of candidates on first attempt.

Difference II

Annual audit, by lot.

Every member files a case log each January. Roughly 4% of cases are drawn by lot and audited by two Fellows from outside the member's country. The summary is filed in the public record. There is no opting out.

Difference III

Rulings named, not anonymised.

Disciplinary outcomes carry the operator's name, the date of the complaint, the breaches by Article number, and the sanction. The patient is not named. We have lost no defamation suit since founding.

Difference IV

No industry money.

No sponsorship of the congress, the journal, the website, or the registry. Income comes from dues, congress fees, and journal subscriptions only. The accounts are filed publicly each quarter; donations are named.

Difference V

No honorary fellowship.

There is no honorary class, no founder's seat, no complimentary admission for senior figures. The founding Council voted against it in 2007 ten to one. The vote has been retested twice and stands.

Difference VI

Complaints, on the day.

A patient complaint is acknowledged the day it is received, investigated within sixty days, ruled within ninety. Ninety days is a deadline, not a target. The Council has missed it twice since 2007; both incidents are on the record.

Recent rulings, in the open.

Eight disciplinary rulings in the most recent six months. Names, dates, breaches, and sanctions are public. Read any of them in Acta Implantologica.

Browse the disciplinary archive — 247 rulings since 2007

Four classes of membership.

Every tier is earned and re-earned. There is no honorary fellowship for sale, no founder's loophole, no complimentary entry. Failure to renew on the standard removes the member from the registry.

Class I

Fellow (F.I.A.)

The senior class. Awarded after ten years of clean record, a published case series, and a passed peer review.

  • Ten years in the Member class
  • Peer-reviewed case audit
  • Voting rights on Council
  • Listed on the Roll of Fellows
Read the requirements
Class II

Member (M.I.A.)

The working class of the association. Open to qualified practitioners who pass examination and submit an annual case log.

  • Qualified degree & licence
  • Entry examination, two parts
  • Annual case log, audited
  • Full registry listing
How to apply
Class III

Associate

For early-career practitioners working toward the Member exam. Mentored, observed, and expected to progress.

  • Within five years of licence
  • Mentor assigned by Council
  • Provisional listing in registry
  • Access to all education
Eligibility
Class IV

Trainee & Student

For residents and dental students with an intent to practise implantology. Free of dues; limited to learning.

  • Verified institutional enrolment
  • No fees; no clinical listing
  • Journal access, electronic
  • Annual Trainee Day, in person
Enrol

The standards we publish — and enforce.

Every member, in every class, signs the same six articles each year. They are not advisory. A breach is brought before the Standards Council; rulings are published in the Journal, without anonymisation.

Article I

Evidence over opinion.

A treatment plan is grounded in a documented diagnosis, imaging of record, and a written rationale shared with the patient before consent.

Article II

Disclosure of conflict.

Industry payments, equity, paid speaking, and supplier arrangements are disclosed annually. The register is public, searchable, dated.

Article III

One operator, one record.

The surgeon of record is the human who performs the surgery. No ghost operators, no outsourced execution, no last-minute substitutions without written notice.

Article IV

Outcomes, audited.

Every member submits an annual case log. A random sample is audited by two Fellows drawn by lot. The audit summary is part of the public file.

Article V

Complaints, on the record.

Patient complaints are accepted, investigated, and ruled on within ninety days. Outcomes are published — not buried in correspondence.

Article VI

The duty to refer.

A member declines what is beyond their competence and names a colleague who can perform it. Greed is not a clinical indication.

Read the standards in full

Find a verified implantologist.

The registry is the public face of the association. Every listing is current, audited, and signed off by the member themselves. Removals are dated and reasoned.

In good standing
AM
Alessandra Moreau
F.I.A., D.M.D., M.Sc.
Class
Fellow · since 2014
City
Geneva, Switzerland
Audits
9 of 9 passed
Reg №
F-0214
In good standing
JH
Jonas Hoffman
M.I.A., D.D.S.
Class
Member · since 2019
City
Boston, United States
Audits
5 of 5 passed
Reg №
M-1183
In good standing
RC
Rafael Cárdenas
F.I.A., D.D.S., Ph.D.
Class
Fellow · since 2011
City
Madrid, Spain
Audits
12 of 12 passed
Reg №
F-0091
In good standing
SY
Sayuri Yamada
M.I.A., D.D.S., M.Sc.
Class
Member · since 2018
City
Kyoto, Japan
Audits
6 of 6 passed
Reg №
M-0972
In good standing
PO
Peter Okoye
M.I.A., B.D.S., F.W.A.C.S.
Class
Member · since 2021
City
Lagos, Nigeria
Audits
3 of 3 passed
Reg №
M-1402
In good standing
EV
Eleanor Vance
F.I.A., B.D.S., M.Clin.Dent.
Class
Fellow · since 2016
City
Edinburgh, Scotland
Audits
8 of 8 passed
Reg №
F-0307
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Quarterly · Print & Web
— Journal of the Association
Acta
Implantologica
Volume XIX · No. 2 · MMXXVI
"Five-year outcomes in immediately loaded zygomatic implants — an audited multicentre series."
ISSN 1971-0814 pp. 84 — 256
Volume XIX · in print

The journal of the association.

Acta Implantologica is the quarterly of the association — peer-reviewed, no industry advertising, no pay-to-publish. Every published study is required to release de-identified data.

  1. I.Five-year outcomes in immediately loaded zygomatic implantsMoreau A., Cárdenas R., et al. · multicentre audited seriespp. 84–112
  2. II.A registry-wide analysis of failure attribution in the first 36 monthsStandards Council · audited dataset, n = 9,217pp. 113–148
  3. III.Informed consent that survives litigation — a written-record protocolVance E., legal annex by Hoffman J.pp. 149–172
  4. IV.Disciplinary rulings · 2026 — Q1 & Q2Standards Council, signed minutespp. 173–198
  5. V.Letters, errata, & repliesOpen correspondence with named signatoriespp. 199–256
Read the current issue

Continuing education — required, not optional.

Members owe forty hours of recorded education each year, twelve of which must be earned in person. The schedule is open to the profession; only members are obliged to attend.

Full schedule & CPD log

The Council, by name.

The Council serves three-year terms, elected by the Fellows. Council minutes are signed, dated, and published the week after each sitting — without redaction beyond patient privacy.

President
Rafael Cárdenas
F.I.A., D.D.S., Ph.D.

Madrid. Twenty-one years in practice. Chair of the Standards Council 2019–2023.

Vice-President
Alessandra Moreau
F.I.A., D.M.D., M.Sc.

Geneva. Editor-in-chief, Acta Implantologica 2021–. Multicentre research lead.

Standards Chair
Eleanor Vance
F.I.A., B.D.S., M.Clin.Dent.

Edinburgh. Twelve years on Standards. Author of the Vance Protocol on consent.

Registrar
Sayuri Yamada
M.I.A., D.D.S., M.Sc.

Kyoto. Oversees the registry, the annual audit drawing, and member file integrity.

The full Council & minutes

A featured Fellow.

Each issue of Acta Implantologica highlights one member's file. The current feature: Dr. Jose Manuel Jimenez, F.I.A. — Fellow since 2014.

Dr. Jose Manuel Jimenez, F.I.A. — Harvard-trained implant specialist
In good standing · F-0418
Featured Fellow · Vol. XIX No. 2

Dr. Jose Manuel
Jimenez, F.I.A.

D.D.S. — Dental Implant Specialist · Los Algodones, Mexico

Harvard-trained dental implant specialist with twenty-five years in practice and over five thousand patients restored. Clinical focus: All-on-5 titanium-bar, full-arch implants, zirconia, bone grafting, and the complex reconstructions other clinics turn away.

Audits
12 / 12 passed
Fellow since
2014
Rating
5.0 / 5
Read the full file →
In the record
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Applications open · MMXXVI

Apply, and be examined.

There is no shortcut, no fast track, no acquaintance class. If you can stand the examination and the annual audit, the association is built for practitioners like you. If you cannot, it is not.

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