{"id":753,"date":"2026-05-28T08:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/?post_type=article&#038;p=753"},"modified":"2026-06-11T08:23:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:23:47","slug":"implant-dentistry-education-at-a-predoctoral-level-diversity-at-a-worldwide-level-1801","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/article\/implant-dentistry-education-at-a-predoctoral-level-diversity-at-a-worldwide-level-1801\/","title":{"rendered":"Implant Dentistry Education at a Predoctoral Level \u2013 Diversity at a Worldwide Level"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"article-type":[5],"forum-tag":[134],"class_list":["post-753","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article-type-feature-article","forum-tag-implant-education"],"acf":{"feature_topic":1456,"authors":[1050,1166,1168],"read_time":"16 min","publication_date":"20171124","doi":"10.3290\/iti.fi.45670","excerpt":"Implant dentistry has become a predictable treatment to restore esthetics, form and oral function. 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(2011) Introduction of an implant surgical selective into a predoctoral dental curriculum. <em>Journal of Dental Education<\/em> <strong>75<\/strong>: 1256 \u2013 1262.","endnote":"OWN - ITI International Team for Implantology\r\n CI - ITI International Team for Implantology\r\n JT - Forum Implantologicum\r\n DP - 2017\r\n LA - en\r\n TI - Implant Dentistry Education at a Predoctoral Level - Diversity at a Worldwide Level\r\nOWN - ITI International Team for Implantology\r\n AU - Brodala N.\r\n AU - Sukotjo C.\r\n AU - Yuan J.\r\nAID - 10.3290\/iti.fi.45670[doi]\r\n AB - Abstract"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/753\/revisions\/1638"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forum-author\/1168"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forum-author\/1166"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forum-author\/1050"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/feature-topic\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-type?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"forum-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forum-tag?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}