Patient questions
How can I verify a clinic's ISO certification and ITI membership?
Patient questions
Ask the clinic for its ISO 9001 certificate and check it against the certification body's own public register — for TÜV NORD, the certificate database on tuev-nord.de. For ITI membership, ask which clinicians hold membership and confirm it with the International Team for Implantology via iti.org. Our own ISO 9001 certificate, issued by TÜV NORD, is available on request.
Verifying an ISO 9001 certification
ISO 9001 is a quality-management standard: a clinic does not certify itself, an accredited certification body audits it and issues the certificate. That is exactly what makes the claim checkable — the certification body, not the clinic, is the authority you verify against.
- 1Ask the clinic for its certificate. A genuine certificate names the clinic, the standard (ISO 9001), the certification body and a certificate number with validity dates.
- 2Identify the certification body on the document — ours is TÜV NORD.
- 3Check the certificate in the body's own public register. TÜV NORD operates online certificate databases where a certificate's authenticity and current validity can be confirmed.
- 4Confirm the details match: clinic name, standard, and that the certificate is still within its validity period.
Verifying an ITI membership
The International Team for Implantology (ITI) is an independent, non-profit academic association in implant dentistry, founded in 1980 and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. It is an association of individual clinicians rather than of clinics, and it does not publish a public register of member clinics — so verification runs through the clinic and through the organisation itself:
- 1Ask the clinic which of its clinicians hold ITI membership and in which national Section. A genuinely affiliated clinic can answer in writing.
- 2Confirm with the ITI directly — the organisation is reachable through iti.org.
- 3Treat the membership as what it is: a professional-education affiliation that signals work inside published, evidence-based treatment guidelines — not a licence, ranking or outcome guarantee.
Where Dental Med Austria stands
Quality management at Dental Med Austria is ISO 9001 certified by TÜV NORD, and the clinic is a member of the International Team for Implantology. Both claims are documented, with links to the official bodies, on our Certifications & Standards page, and the background to the ITI itself is on our ITI membership page.
In the spirit of this page, one honest note: we have not yet published a scan of the certificate or its registry number here. Until we do, the certificate is available on request through any contact channel — and its details can then be checked against TÜV NORD's register exactly as described above. We would rather you checked than took our word for it.
The same verify-it-yourself logic extends to what we place: every implant — from the Straumann and other systems in our implant catalogue — leaves with an implant passport whose serial numbers can be verified with the manufacturer, as documented on our The Implant Passport page.
- Documented standards
- Traceable materials
- Verifiable serial numbers
- Independent listings
Verify before you travel
Ask for any certificate, serial number or document — we would rather you checked than took our word for it.
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