Announcing Your AAID Credential

AAID Policy on Members' Announcement of Earned Credentials

The AAID is the oldest national dental organization in the field of implant dentistry and issues Associate Fellow and Fellow credentials that provide consumers with valuable information relative to a dentist’s education, training, and experience in the area of implant dentistry. In addition, the AAID sponsors the American Board of Oral Implantology/ Implant Dentistry (ABOI/ID), which issues the Diplomate credential.

The AAID encourages its members to obtain one or more of the offered credentials. By doing so, members demonstrate that they have met the educational and experiential requirements for the credential and passed psychometrically-based written and oral examinations.

The AAID believes that advertising of bona fide credentials serves the best interests of all concerned. The AAID does not encourage or  support any of its dentist-members’ advertising that they are "specialists" in implant dentistry.

Several court decisions have supported the right of dentists to truthfully  advertise their AAID and ABOI/ID credentials. These courts have upheld the right to truthfully advertise the credentials earned in implant dentistry from the AAID and ABOI/ID on the basis of the AAID’s and ABOI/ID’s objective and rigorous procedures.

These procedures include the following:

1. An objectively verifiable set of requirements
2. The successful completion of a written or oral examination based on psychometric principles
3. Post–dental school training and experience

At this time, the credentials from the AAID and ABOI/ID are the only credentials in implant dentistry that have been so recognized by  several courts.

Since the training and experience necessary to obtain these credentials inherently benefits patients, it follows that the AAID encourages its credentialed members to advertiser their credentials to the public in any state that permits such advertising. Additionally, the AAID encourages its credentialed members to only advertise credentials in implant  dentistry that are bona fide and, at present, only AAID and ABOI/ID  credentials have been deemed to be bona fide by several federal  court decisions. To include other implant credentials that do not have the same rigorous requirements and testing procedures could be misleading. For this reason, AAID members should not include other implant credentials on their practice announcements when AAID and ABOI/ID credentials are used.

News Release Templates

Fellow News Release Template

Associate Fellow News Release Template

AAID Logo

Academy members in good standing may announce their membership category in the American Academy of Implant Dentistry and use the AAID logo in accordance with the following guidelines:

• The AAID logo is trademarked and the property of the AAID. Its use by members does not imply an endorsement of the treatment rendered by the member.
• Any member in good standing can also provide a link between his or her website and the AAID website, provided the member’s website accurately states his or her membership status in the AAID. 
• The AAID logo may be reproduced in accordance with these guidelines on professional stationery, business cards, Internet web sites, and print ads.
• The name and logo must always be treated as one element.
• The logo colors cannot be changed but may be presented in either all black or all white (reverse).

The correct colors and fonts are:

Magenta: HEX #752864
Blue: HEX #00759A
Dark Blue: HEX #003C69
Font Family: Frutiger (acceptable substitutes—Futura or Avant Garde)

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Promoting and Advertising Guidance

AAID member logos should not be used to promote educational courses. More information about AAID-credentialed member options for course promotion is available by contacting the Credentialing Department at credentialing@aaid.com

The AAID encourages its credentialed members to advertise their credentials to the public in any state that permits such advertising.  Credentialed members are invited to advertise their credentials as:

Fellow
<Fellow’s Name>, FAAID
<Fellow’s Name>, Fellow of the AAID
<Fellow’s Name>, Fellow of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry

Associate Fellow
 <Associate Fellow’s Name>, AFAAID
<Associate Fellow’s Name>, Associate Fellow of the AAID
<Associate Fellow’s Name>, Associate Fellow of the American  Academy of Implant Dentistry

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