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Hot off the virtual press: The Proceedings of the Sixth ITI Consensus Conference are available free of charge as an Open Access supplement to Clinical Oral Implants Research. Whether your interests lie in surgery, prosthodontics, patient‐reported outcomes, complications/risk, digital technologies or a combination thereof, the proceedings offer the latest evidence-based clinical guidelines and recommendations.

Same procedure as every year and what a great evening! Last Friday, the ITI held its traditional reception for Fellows and Members during this year’s EAO congress in Vienna. The location, the famous Rathauskeller right in Vienna’s historical center, was very impressive and just the perfect spot for a nice get together.

Last weekend, the ITI Congress Greece & Cyprus took place in Athens and provided its participants under the umbrella theme “Points of Reference for Success” with a high-quality program and a wide range of stimulating lectures and discussions.

On October 5, 2019, the ITI Section South East Asia held its first ITI Education Day in Myanmar at the University of Dental Medicine, Yangon. The event attracted 200 participants, who eagerly listened to lectures given by the ITI South East Asian Leadership Team: Drs Alvin Yeo, Chatchai Kunavisarut and Yip Chi-Cheong.

With a “Focus on Treatment Planning” as the main theme, the ITI Congress Finland, held in Helsinki on September 21 and 22, managed to draw an audience of 320 participants. The rich scientific program took a particularly close look at analogue versus digital planning as well as factors of technical and surgical complications.

With the ITI World Symposium 2020 in Singapore just 20 months away, we are launching a search for the most talented young speakers to take the stage during this world class event. The focus this time is entirely on the patient and the scientific program is running under the title "Evidence and Trends for Patient-Centered Solutions: The Challenge of Choice".

To be published as an online open-access supplement to Clinical Oral Implants Research, the Proceedings represent the findings of the 3-day ITI Consensus Conference held in Amsterdam in April this year.

The ITI would like to congratulate Professor Tom Taylor on his 70^th birthday! Honorary Fellow, former ITI President and Committee Chair, Tom Taylor has always been a dedicated and active member of the implant dentistry and ITI communities.

Congratulations to our ITI Section China and its Leadership Team for a very successful 10 years as an active part of the ITI. To celebrate this success, the Chinese Section Leadership Team hosted a celebratory event in Beijing on August 13.

The ITI is very happy to announce the inauguration of two new Scholarship Centers. At the beginning of July, cooperation agreements were signed with the Peking University, School and Hospital of Stomatology in Beijing and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine, Ninth People’s Hospital, School of Dentistry in Shanghai, both in China.

Last weekend, 1,600 participants attended the ITI Congress Japan in Tokyo and made it a huge success. Under the umbrella theme “Tradition and Innovation” the scientific program focused on the development of the ITI and long-term scientific evidence as well as on shaping the future of implant dentistry by creating trends.

The ITI is back in Amsterdam and this time we have a stand at the EuroPerio9 meeting from June 20 to 23, 2018. Come by the EFP village for a visit and catch up on the latest from the ITI. And if you don't already happen to be a Member of the ITI – find out why you need to be part of our worldwide network of professionals and join us on the spot.

Do you know our ITI Scholarship Program? Each year we enable young implant dentistry talent to spend a year abroad at a highly regarded university being mentored by an ITI Fellow. Currently, we have 23 different ITI Scholarship Centers around the globe.

Last weekend, the ITI Congress UK & Ireland took place in London and was completely sold out! The diverse program revolved around “Modern Dilemmas in Implant Dentistry” and attracted 450 participants.

April 27^th will remain a day of high emotion for PD Dr. Vivianne Chappuis from Bern, Switzerland and Dr. Ui-Won Jung from Seoul, Korea who were awarded the prestigious André Schroeder Research Prize for their research in the field of implant dentistry.

At the 2018 Annual General Meeting, the General Assembly voted to extend the ITI Board of Directors. Congratulations to Charlotte Stilwell, UK prosthodontist in private practice and part-time lecturer at the University of Geneva, and Bilal Al-Nawas, Medical Director of the Department of Oral, Maxillofacial and Plastic Surgery at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, who were voted in as Board members at large.

Since 1980, 16 ITI Fellows have been awarded the ITI's highest distinction of Honorary Fellowship. This year two Fellows were singled out for this honor that recognizes their contribution to the ITI and the field of implant dentistry as a whole. Both Professor Dr. Gerhard Wahl and Professor Dr. Hans-Peter Weber became part of the ITI in 1987 and in the intervening years both have been very active in their Section in Germany and the USA, respectively.

At its 6th ITI Consensus Conference, held from April 17 - 19, 2018 in Amsterdam, the ITI once again gathered together professionals from all over the world to review the latest literature and establish implant dentistry guidelines for the coming five years.

From March 17-18, 2018 the fascinating city of Marrakesh, Morocco hosted the second ITI Francophone Congress. Four years after its first edition, the ITI once again brought together the French-speaking dental community under the heading "Implant Dentistry of the Future".

From March 16 – 17, 2018, the former German capital Bonn was the setting for the 9th ITI Congress Germany. Close by where politicians once debated the future of the country, the future of implant dentistry came under discussion by almost 800 dental professionals.