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.

Venue: The Leela Ambience Convention Hotel Delhi, Delhi, India
Date: November 11-13, 2016
President: Mahesh Verma (Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, India)
Vice-President: Shigeo Osato (dento-Oral Science Institute, Japan)
Congress Chairmen: Shanker Iyer (New York Univ., USA)
Organizing Secretary: Brij Mohan Sabherwal (Practitioner, India)
International Scientific Chair: Natalie Wong (Toronto Implant Institute Inc., Canada)
International Scientific Chair: Manuel Chanavaz (Lille Univ., France)
WCOI President: Shigeo Osato (dento-Oral Science Institute, Japan)
WCOI Conference Secretary: Kenichi Matsuda (Practitioner, Japan)

Dr. Mahesh Verma held the 10th WCOI with AAID Global co-sponsored by some associations including Indian Dental Association (IDA) and International Congress of Oral Implantology (ICOI)-South East (SE). Over 1,500 doctors gathered from 18 nations in The Leela Ambience Convention Hotel Delhi. The participants got a chance to meet up together with oral implantologists and researchers with traditional culture. Fifty-nine keynote speakers from around the world addressed modern presentations. The conference “Delegate Book” (165 pages) edited by Dr. Mahesh Verma was published by the Publications Committee of WCOI-10. Over 140 doctors applied for the “WCOI Diplomate Qualification Test” after receiving educational lectures.

Venue: The Leela Ambience Convention Hotel Delhi, Delhi, India
Date: March 1-3, 2019
Congress Chairmen: Mahesh Verma (Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, India)
Congress President: Shanker Iyer (New York Univ., USA)
Organizing Secretary: Brij Mohan Sabherwal (Practitioner, India)
AAID President: Natalie Wong (Toronto Implant Institute Inc., Canada)
WCOI President: Shigeo Osato (dento-Oral Science Institute, Japan)
WCOI Treasure: Iwao Kuroyama (Practitioner, Japan)

Dr. Mahesh Verma and Dr. Shanker Iyer held the 5th Global AAID Conference (5GAAID) 2019 and 1st Asian Hard and Soft Tissue Symposium in New Delhi co-hosted by WCOI Japan with some supporting organizations. Over 2,000 doctors gathered from 18 nations in The Leela Ambience Convention Hotel Delhi. The participants got a chance to meet up together with oral implantologists and researchers with traditional culture. Thirty-eight keynote speakers from around the world addressed modern presentations. The conference “Delegate Book” (136 pages) edited by Dr. Mahesh Verma was published by the Publications Committee of 5GAAID. Over 100 doctors applied, and many doctors passed the 2nd “WCOI Diplomate Qualification Test” after receiving educational lectures. Furthermore, sixteen doctors applied for the 1st “WCOI Master Fellow Examination,” and all passed the viva-voce examination of case reports using personal computers.

Venue: Aria Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Date: October 23-26, 2019
Congress President: Dr. Natalie Wong (AAID President and Toronto Implant Institute Inc., Canada)
Congress Vice President: Dr. Shigeo Osato (WCOI President and dento-Oral Science Institute, Japan)
Scientific Program Chair: Dr. Shankar Iyer (New York Univ., USA)

The eleventh WCOI meeting was held in collaboration with 68th AAID Annual Conference in Las Vegas, US. At the joint meeting, under the master conductor (MC) of Dr. Takefumi Ogasawara, two speakers from AAID (US) and three speakers from WCOI (Japan) gave major lectures in Leaf-room 12. Seven WCOI Japan members participated in the electronic poster presentation.

Venue: dOS Institute (WCOI/WCOI Japan Headquarters Secretariat), Tokyo, Japan
Date: 27th March, 2022
Conference Chair: Dr. Hiroshi Takeshima (Prof. Meikai University, Japan)
Excecutive Committee Chair: Dr. Nobuaki Tamura (Assoc, Prof. Meikai University, Japan)
Executive Committee Chair: Dr. Takefumi Ogasawara (Chief, Machida Municipal Hospital, Japan)
Scientific Chair: Dr. Kazuhiko Suese (Visiting Prof., Osaka Dental University, Japan)
Treasurer: Dr. Shigeru Oda (Part-time instructor, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan)
General Affair: Dr. Kenichi Matsuda (Director, Oral White, Japan)
Chief Coordinator: Dr. Vaibhav Bhadane (Secretary, IDA Mumbai, India)

Dr. Hiroshi Takeshima held the 26th WCOI Japan Scientifc Conference and the 1st Japan-India Collaboration Meeting online. The Japan-India conference was planned for March 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, due to the unstable state of infection in Japan, it was held online using zoom. The conference consisted of 1 special lecture, 7 collaborative lectures (3 objectives from Japan and 4 objectives from India), and 4 table clinics from Japan. With the cooperation of moderator Dr. Masahiko Kobayashi (Assist. Prof, Meikai University) and interpreter from Delhi (Mr. Arnimesh Kumar, Delhi), the first conference connecting Japan, Mumbai and Delhi was completed successfully.

Venue: dOS Institute (WCOI/WCOI Japan Headquarters Secretariat), Tokyo, Japan
Date: 2nd July, 2023
Conference Chairs: Dr. Kazuhiko Hiroyasu (Prof. The Nippon Dental University at Niigata, Japan) and Dr. Jyoti Tembhrune (Prof. Government Dental College and Hospital, Mumbai, India
Organizing Committee Chairs: Dr. Kazuhiko Inoue (WCOI Japan Director, Japan) and Dr. Anilkmare Khandare, EC member and Ex secretary IDA Navi Mumbai)
Executive Members: Dr. Yasunari Noshiro (WCOI Japan Councilor), Dr. Takefumi Ogasawara (Chief, Machida Municipal Hospital, Japan) and Dr. Narendra Kale (President, Maharashtra State Dental Council)
Treasurer: Dr. Shigeru Oda (Part-time instructor, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan)
Chief Coordinator: Dr. Vaibhav Bhadane (President of Aayushman Bhava Foundation, and Director of Dr. Bhadane's Smile Care Dental Clinic, Kharghar, Mumbai)

As the conference chairpersons, Dr. Kazuhiko Hiroyasu and Dr. Jyoti Tembhurne jointly held the 27th WCOI Japan Scientific Conference and the 2nd Japan-India Collaboration Conference using Zoom online, respectively. At the 27th conference, keynote, and educational and special lectures were presented to delegates. At the 2nd conference, a keynote lecture, topic lectures (four presentations: two short implants, a mini-implant, and one implant occlusion), and an encouragement lecture were given. In addition, five e-posters were presented and awarded gold and silver medals. Of the integrated discussions, moderated by Dr. Kazuhiko Inoue, a lively question-and-answer session was conducted with a Japanese interpreter.