Leading Implant Centers has one aim:
To create worldwide transparency within the market of dental specialists working as implantologists. In order for patients and interested individuals to reliably find experienced implantologists, who have been verifiably certified to a high level in the field of oral implantology by their respective scientific association.
Implantology is a field of expertise with a growing market and therefore lucrative for dental specialists. Dental specialists are increasingly organizing in their various national and international scientific associations to further educate themselves. In these scientific associations these specialists can on the one hand easily become a member without gaining any further qualifications and on the other hand they can gain different qualified standards through further education arrangements.
For the patient it is difficult if not even impossible to assess and evaluate the qualifications of an implantologist due to the many educational opportunities available with all the various diplomas, certificates and statements.
But the fact is that only a handful of all licensed dental specialists are at the highest quality training and certification level of their respective scientific associations in oral implantology.
With the co-operation of a scientific advisory board, Leading Implant Centers has developed strict entry criteria to ensure that the specialists it lists have verifiably been educated and certified to a high level in the field of oral implantology within their respective scientific association. Furthermore, all members have a minimum of 4 years of practical experience in oral implantology with at least 150 successful treatment cases.
For the patients this is the guarantee for certified and provable expertise of our members. You can fully trust every listed specialist in oral implantology who is listed on Leading Implant Centers. Before being listed, each and every member of Leading Implant Centers was assessed according to our nationally as well as internationally similar standards.
Find the closest dental expert you can trust in your vicinity.
A dental implant is a matter of trust. And trust is exactly where the market tends to leave patients on their own: almost every practice now advertises implantology, yet from the outside it is nearly impossible to tell how much experience, training and care actually sit behind the offer. Two practices can look identical online – and be worlds apart in the treatment room.
Leading Implant Centers was created in 2013 to close that gap. The idea behind it was simple: a place where verified quality becomes visible, so patients no longer have to rely on advertising claims.
Its scientific direction was taken on by Clinical Professor Ady Palti (New York University) – a name few in implantology can ignore. The German Society for Oral Implantology (DGOI) was founded on his initiative in 2004, and he served as its president until 2009. He led the ICOI world association as president from 2007 to 2010 and has chaired it since 2018. He has treated patients at his own practice in Baden-Baden for more than 35 years and holds twelve patents for instruments and implant systems. His conviction is simple: only thorough education and training let implantologists face their patients "with a clear conscience". That standard still defines the network today.
That is why Leading Implant Centers is not an open directory. Anyone who wants to join must apply – and meet clearly defined quality criteria. For patients, this means you won't find just any provider here, but specialists whose qualifications have been verifiably checked: currently 242 experts across 28 countries, guided by a scientific advisory board of experienced colleagues.
What we hold ourselves to hasn't changed since day one: making quality visible, so you can base your decision on facts – not on advertising.
Your certified implantology network · since 2013
