Ceramic implantology in Europe: Initiating change and creating synergies
In 2018, the European Academy of Ceramic Implantology (EACim) was founded to help promote advancements in ceramic implantology in Europe. In this interview with ceramic implants, EACim President Dr Giancarlo Bianca elaborates on the need for an additional expert society dedicated to zirconia implants…
Dr Bianca, thank you for your time. In 2018, you and your colleagues founded the EACim. As President of one of the most ambitious projects in recent ceramic implants initiatives, can you tell us what the EACim stands for and what its goals are?
Implantology is a European innovation and the ceramic implant has been European ever since its development by Prof. Sami Sandhaus in 1968 and since its current evolution of the zirconia implant. We, the six founding members of this European academy, are private practitioners, teachers or lecturers with at least ten years of experience in the practice of zirconia implants. Our objectives are to develop clinical research and to share experiences with as many as possible of those colleagues who are interested in and who wish to practise ceramic oral implantology. We wish to be able to in uence the industrial development of these products and to create confraternal links between practitioners from different European countries, with ambassadors in each of them to help federate the whole academy…
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