Your reliable partner for dental clinical studies
Our intention is to improve oral health care globally by development and improvement of clinical therapies in the field of implant and regenerative dentistry. With national and international partners, we want to improve and facilitate global clinical research by providing high quality service structures which include qualified staff and cutting-edge infrastructure to multiple stakeholders like scientists, clinicians, university and industrial partners and regulatory bodies.
The accomplishment of the center encompasses all scientific steps of the value chain in the development of new therapeutic strategies. Beginning with drafting of the idea until the performance of a clinical trial Swiss quality standards represent our basis of documentation and communication. The center is financially supported by donations, grants and industrial partners.
Millions of individuals all over the world suffer from missing teeth. Depending on the patient's need dental implants are used as artificial roots replacing missing teeth and therefore, giving back the possibility to chew, to have anormal bit function and to have a nice smile.
The center of implant research (CIR) at the University of Zurich (UZH) is a platform for research and developments in dental implantology. This encompasses tissue regeneration and offers cutting-edge facilities and professional staff to improve new developments in implantology and to enlarge the indications for patients care worldwide.
Need for further developments
There is a continuous need for improvements in dental implantology representing the fastest growing discipline in dentistry. Developments in this field have a significant impact because more than 16 million implants are placed every year. This number significantly increases year after year. In order to improve worldwide patient care there is a constant demand for further developments in dental implantology and tissue regeneration. In addition, the regulatory bodies in health care significantly increased the stringency for clinical studies. This leads to an amplified demand for high-quality clinical studies and is asking for specialized centers working in strong global research networks.
Novel service structure
Ihe CIR is a platform for research and developments in dental implantology. It is equipped to meet the modern regulatory demands and is structurally organized to increase the quality and effectiveness in clinical research needed in this rapidly growing field. It offers a service structure including facilities and professional staff managing a global network of clinical research activities. Through our partner universities and private practices the overall power of clinical studies and the efficiency can be significantly improved. All this taken together ensures, that the time for new developments and for patents can be considerably reduced. Therefore the costs for new products will decrease. This will lead to rapid and tangible benefits for patients in all parts of the world.
The CIR additionally serves as an international center provding exchange programs for dentists and researchers from partner universities all over the world to stay and work at the CIR.
Center actions
In order to fulfill our mission, the center
- Creates networks of international universities, researchers, medical device companies and other involved parties
- Generates clinical data for medical device manufacturers
- Brings up new project ideas in order to extend scientific knowledge
- Supports excellent research activities
Organization / Team
The CIR is the result of ten years of development in dental implantology driven by the faculty members of the Clinic for Reconstructive Dentistry. Since its founding in 2016, Managing Director Prof. Dr. Ronald Jung and his dedicated team of specialized researchers have been passionately driving cutting-edge research and innovative projects.
Prof. Daniel Thoma
Leiter Orale Implantologie
Prof. Tim Joda
Leiter eHealth in Rekonstruktiver Zahnmedizin
Clinical trial managers support, manage and coordinate research projects with the respective international study centers. They are also responsible for the remote monitoring and data management.
CIR study management team
Dr. Silvia Rasi
International study manager
Jolanta Boruta
International study manager
Eshara Thomet
Study coordinator
Kaltrina Ibrahimi
Study coordinator
Dental professionals at the Clinic of Reconstructive Dentistry develop protocols for innovative and creative study designs through their many years of experience. They also support various projects as consultants and are clinically involved as practitioners in the study center at University Zurich.
Clinical Team of the Clinic of Reconstructive Dentistry
The Steering Committee provides input from related topics and organizations to refine upcoming developments and actions through external insights. The board represents a wide range of experience within and outside of dental medicine and is an excellent visionary board to address and consult on future challenges.
Prof. Beatrice Beck-Schimmer
Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Zurich and Director University Medicine Zurich (UMZH)
Prof. Theodore Eliades
Professor and Director, Clinic of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, University Zurich
Dominik Heitzmann
CFO, UZH Foundation
Center annual reports
The center annual reports highlight our achievements, challenges, and milestones we have reached so far.
Partner centers
The CIR wants to ensure short times for patient admission combined with high quality standards. Therefore, we cooperate with different centers worldwide. Depending on the objective of the planned study, we select the most suitable centers with the appropriate patient pool.
We have long established and trustful partnerships with our centers. They are calibrated to Swiss treatment standards and well trained. We are in regular exchange with the centers' staff and enjoy an open and trustful cooperation.
University of Sao Paulo - Brazil
Discipline of Periodontics, Department of Stomatology, Dental School
Chair: Prof. Giuseppe A. Romito
Peking University, Beijing - China
Department of Prosthodontics，School and Hospital of Stomatology；ITI scholarship Center-Beijing
Chair: Prof. Yongsheng Zhou
MARDC (M.A.Rangoonwala College of Dental Sciences & Research Centre, Pune) - India
TESTDepartment of Prosthodontics & Implantology, MARDC, Pune, India
Chair: Prof. Mohit Kheur
National Dental Centre - Singapore
Department of Restorative Dentistry/ NDCS
Chair: Cl A/Prof Poon Choy Yoke/ NDCS
Yonsei University, College of Dentistry, Seoul - South
Department of Periodontology, Research Institute for Periodontal Regeneration
Chair: Prof. Jung-Seok Lee
How to become a donor
Unique Impact
The CIR will increase the quality and effectiveness in clinical research and will reduce the costs for new developments. It will help that worldwide more patients can replace their missing teeth in order improve health and to facilitate eating, functioning and smiling.
We would like to express our gratitude to our donors who supported our research.
If you wish to also make a contribution you can contact us here.
Your donations will be used mainly for:
- high-level clinical research collaborations with leading Universities worldwide,
- improving patient care in dental implantology from planning to final reconstruction,
- scolarship-programs allowing dentists and researchers from partner universities all over the world to work at the CIR,
- professional staff
- and required equipment.