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In the United States and the United Kingdom, there is no exclusive specialty in 'implantology'.
Any practitioner who carries out implant treatment, whether in the surgical insertion or the final provision of the prosthesis, must be adequately trained. Legal training requirements differ between countries.
In 2008, in the UK the General Dental Council (GDC) laid down strict training requirements for dentists involved in dental implantology. Any dentist in the UK who wishes to train in the field of dental implantology must take part in an extended learning program which covers a detailed theory syllabus, as approved by the GDC, in addition to formal supervised surgical training and mentoring. Dentists must not take part in implant dentistry in the UK until they have been approved by the training provider as having passed a formal competency assessment. Failure to comply with the GDC regulations may result in a dentist being removed from the Dental Register and hence losing the right to practice dentistry in the UK.
The fast growing demand for prosthetic solutions based upon dental implants caused the birth of hundreds of different brands available on the market, about 150 in the UK and more than 300 in Italy, but only a very few of these have enough documentation and clinical practice for being recognized worldwide. According to a study published in the Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research, only three brands of implants were tested by at least two independent (not sponsored) clinical researches, which should push the patients to ask for more information before accepting any treatment, and to demand for a real implant passport.
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