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special | Fig. 2: Organic pollution on a titanium- made implant (SEM x500), left. Fig. 3: Organic pollution on a zirconia- made implant (SEM x500), right. Fig. 2 Fig. 3 At IDS 2017, members of the Scientific Advisory Board, supporting companies and interested implant manufacturers joined the first CleanImplant group meeting. The CleanImplant Foundation presented a new global quality mark, which is designed to enable clinicians to see at a glance whether the appropriate type of implant meets a minimum of cleanliness. The "CleanImplant Trusted Quality" award can be given to implants which have previously shown in a compre- hensive neutral analysis that they are free of signi- ficant organic impurities (Figs. 2 & 3) and free of particles containing e.g. copper, chromium, nickel, iron, tin, zinc, bronze, stainless steel or antimony sticking on the implant surface. To this end, five implants per type are examined, at least two of which are purchased through blind purchase from practices. The analytical reports are screened and released by the Scientific Advisory Board in a peer review process, that is, two board members have to come to the same conclusion inde- pendently of each other. "Through these procedures we want to make absolutely sure that there is no connection between the financial support of the pro- ject and the analysis result," says Dr Dirk Duddeck. "The biggest difference to all previous attempts to de- velop such a quality mark is that we not only reevalu- ate the results with new implants of the same type every two years, but also regularly tighten the criteria for this quality mark. To this end, the existing analytics will be substantially expanded in the coming years." The results will be published on the project’s web- site www.cleanimplant.com. This will allow interested implantologists a quick and easy way to find compre- hensive information about the variety of possible implant pollution as well as numerous analysis results of contaminated and clean implants. The project is open to every dentist and manufacturer, which are particularly concerned about the protection of patients from potentially inferior medical devices. According to Albrektsson, we should abide to his fundamental guiding principle written in an article a decade ago that we should not only believe, but rather have to know that the implants we use do not harm our patients. To cut a long story short: Patients trust in our decision for the right dental implant system. Dentists should have an independent guide to find out which implant system meets the expectation of a high quality medical device. The CleanImplant Foundation will support future research on the clinical impact of impurities and extend the periodic analyses of dental implants all over the globe in order to provide dentists with independent research results and evaluate improvements in the manufacturing process of previous analysed implants. More information and a correspondent newsletter are available at the pro- ject's homepage: www.cleanimplant.com._ Author details contact Dr Dirk U. Duddeck Managing Director CleanImplant Foundation CIF GmbH Pariser Platz 4a 10117 Berlin, Germany Tel.: +49 171 5477991 duddeck@cleanimplant.com www.cleanimplant.com implants 2 2017 39