歴史

Venue: Kyoto International Congress Hall, Kyoto, JAPAN
Time: August16-18, 1975
Honorary President: Mikio Shirasu (Osaka Dental Univ., Japan)
President: Charles M. Weiss (Practitioner, New York, USA)
Organizing Committee Chairman: Haruyasu Mitani (Osaka Dental Univ., Japan)
Program Committee Chairman: Haruyuki Kawahara, WCOI Founder(Osaka Dental Univ., Japan)
The 1st WCOI was held by joint organization of the 3rd International College of Oral Implantologists and the 4th JSOI, Japanese Society of Oral Implantology (formerly Japanese society of Implant Dentistry). The proceedings (ed. Haruyuki Kawahara, pp. 289) of he first WCOI were published in 1975 by Ishiyaku Publishers Inc., Tokyo.

Venue: Kyoto International Congress Hall, Kyoto, JAPAN
Time: June 9-11, 1980
President: Haruyuki Kawahara (Osaka Dental Univ., Japan)
Program Committee Chairman: Tetsuo Ishiki (Niigata Univ., Japan)
Arrangement Committee Chairman: Toshio Yamane (Japan Institute for Advanced Dentistry, Japan)
The 2nd WCOI was held in conjunction with the lst IIBS (International Congress of Oral Implantology and Biomaterials in Stomatology) and JSOI. The proceedings "Implantology and Biomaterials in Stomatology (ed. Haruyuki Kawahara, pp. 333) " were published by Ishiyaku Publishers Inc, Tokyo, in 1980.

Venue: Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama, JAPAN
Time: April 1-3, 1994
President: Keiichi Furumoto (The Nippon Dental Univ., Japan)
Organizing Committee Chairman: Tsuyoshi Saito (Nihon Univ., Japan)
Program Committee Chairman: Keikichi Shimada (Kobe Univ., Japan)
General Secretary: Toshiyuki Satoh (Practitioner, Japan)
The 3rd WCOI was held by WCOI and JSOI. The proceedings (ed. Yasuhiro Asai, pp. 565) were published by WCOI publication Committee.

Venue: Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, JAPAN
Time: Apri125, 26,1998
President: Yasuhiro Asai (Tokyo Dental College, Japan)
Organizing Committee Chairman: Tsuyoshi Saito (Nihon Univ., Japan)
Program Committee Chairman: Toshiyuki Satoh (Practitioner, Japan)
General Secretary: Toshiyuki Satoh (Practitioner, Japan)
The 4th WCOI was held by WCOI organization independently. A hundred or more Oral and Poster presentations from all over the world were reported. Celebrating this event, the commemorative books (ed. Keiichi Furumoto, PP. 219) were published by Igaku-Johosha, Co. Ltd., Tokyo in 1998.

Venue: Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo, JAPAN
Date: June 3 to July 2,
President: Tsuyoshi Saito (Nihon Univ., Japan)
Organizing Committee Chairman: Masahisa Kishi (Tokyo Dental College, Japan)
Program Committee Chairman: Isao Ishikawa (Tokyo Medical and Dental Univ., Japan)
General Secretary: Toshiyuki Satoh (Practitioner, Japan)
The scientific program including new trend in biomechanics and tissue engineering gave every clinician, basic researcher, and professional an opportunity to examine timely topics in order to improve their understanding and practice of oral implantology. The proceedings (635 pages) edited by K. Furumoto, I. Ishikawa, M. Kishi and S. Osato were published in the Publications Committee of WCOI-5.

Venue: Hilton Hawaii Village Beach Resort and Spa, Hawaii, USA
Date: March 5 to 8, 2004
President: Jack I. Lemons (The Univ. of Alabama, USA)
General and Scientific Chairman: Charles M. Weiss (Practitioner, New York, USA)
Scientific Co-Chairman: Shankar Iyer (New York Univ., USA)
Organizing Committee Chairman: Tsuyoshi Saito (Nihon Univ., Japan)
Program Committee Chairman: Isao Ishikawa (Tokyo Medical and Dental Univ., Japan)
General Secretary: Shigeo Osato (The Nippon Dental Univ., Japan)
As a trial attempt, WCOI 6 held satellite session with co-sponsorship of IADR / AADR under Prof. Jack E. Lemons and Prof. Joo Leng Ong. The proceedings (537 pages) edited by Charles M. Weiss were published in the Administration of WCOI-6.

Venue: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Date: November 10, 2007
Congress President: Frank LarMar (Practitioner, USA)
Congress-Scientific Chairman: Shanker Iyer (New York Univ., USA)
WCOI President: Tsuyoshi Saito (Nihon Univ., Japan)
Congress Secretariat: Hajime Miyashita (Showa Univ., Japan)
Congress-Organizing Secretary: Shigeo Osato (The Nippon Dental Univ., Japan)
The 7th WCOI meeting was held as the first triennial event in conjunction with 56th AAID annual meeting in Las Vegas. This meeting was an opportunity to exchange scientific knowledge and clinical skills between overseas colleagues. A CD of proceedings (129 pages) edited by Y. Yajima, T. Saito, H. Miyashita, S. Osato, M. Shiota and K. Nagahara were published by WCOI publications Committee of WCOI-7.

Venue: Le Meridien Hotel, New Delhi, INDIA
Date: November 20-22, 2010
President: Mahes Verma (Mauana Azad Institute of Dental Science,India)
Congress Chairman: Shanker Iyer (New York Univ., USA)
Organizing Secretary: Briji Mohan Sabberwal (Practitioner, India)
Scientific Chair: Natalie Wong (Practitioner, Canada)
Co-Scientific Chair: Jaehun Shim (Practitioner, Korea)
WCOI President: Hajime Miyashita (Showa Univ., Japan)
Conference Secretary: Shigeo Osato (The Nippon Dental Univ., Japan)
WCOI Scientific Chairman: Makoto Shiota (Tokyo Medical and Dental Univ., Japan)
Prof. Mahesh Verma organized the 8th WCOI jointly with AAID Global sponsored by Indian Academy of Restorative Dentistry, was held in lovely city of New Delhi. The 8th WCOI gathered 700 or more members in Le Méridian Hotel. The members had an opportunity to meet oral implantologists with fascinating culture. The world has become much smaller, WCOI will be successful and meeting point for oral implantologists form different parts of the world. A Year Book 2010 with CD (87 pages) edited by Drs. M. Shiota and S. Osato was published by WCOI publications Committee of WCOI-8.

Venue: Millennium Seoul Hilton Hotel, Seoul, KOREA
Date: August 23-25, 2013
President: Hong-Ki Kim (Practitioner, Korea)
Congress Chairmen: Il Hae Park (KADA, Korea), and Jae Yoon Lee (KCOI, Korea)
Organizing Secretary: Tae-Young Kim (Practitioner, Korea)
WCOI President: Hajime Miyashita (Showa Univ., Japan)
WCOI Conference Secretary: Shigeo Osato (The Nippon Dental Univ., Japan)
Dr. Hong-Ki Kim held the 9th WCOI with AAID Global supported by KAID and KCOI, was held in Seoul, Korea. The 8th WCOI gathered 300 or more members in Millennium Seoul Hilton Hotel. The participants got a chance to meet up together with oral implantologists and researchers with traditional culture. Many keynote speakers from around the world addressed modern presentations. The conference abstract book (124 pages) edited by Dr. Kim Hong-Ki was published by the Publications Committee of WCOI-9.