The CleanImplant Foundation announces its new office in New York City

The CleanImplant Foundation will have a North American office in New York City as of September 1st, 2022. Dr. Ken Serota will act as the Foundation’s representative. He will be responsible for bringing the Foundation’s information campaign to the profession and the industry to ensure the highest standard and duty of care.

„We are very pleased that Dr. Serota, as a dedicated ambassador of our initiative, will bring awareness of the problem of preventable, manufacture-created contamination of medical devices to the North American dental community. Together with Ken, the Foundation will be able to reach more of our colleagues, as well as implant manufacturers and distributors to foster understanding of the importance of a residue-free implant surface as an indispensable quality criterion,“ explains Dr. Dirk Duddeck, Managing Director and Head of Research at CleanImplant.

Dr. Serota will represent the CleanImplant Foundation at trade shows, conferences, and congresses. As a speaker, he will educate not only colleagues about the CleanImplant Foundation’s study results, their clinical relevance, and the legal implications of using substandard implants. He will be the point of contact for North American implant manufacturers are involved in the CleanImplant quality assessment studies.

Dr. Serota is „… deeply convinced of the CleanImplant Foundation’s mission and the unimpeachable scientific standards of its studies. Throughout my career, I have been fascinated by how the synergy of clinical skills, research studies, and ethical standards can ensure that patient centric care is guided by the highest scientific canons of quality control. It is my great pleasure to bring the CleanImplant Foundation as a „Partner in Science“ to the profession and the industry in the United States and Canada.“

Dr. Serota received his DDS from the University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry in 1973 with awards in prosthetics. In 1981, he received his Certification in Endodontics and Master of Medical Sciences degree on “radionuclide diagnosis of dental pathology” from the Harvard-Forsyth Dental Center in Boston, Massachusetts under the auspices of Dr. Marjorie Kaplan Jeffcoat. Recognizing the power of online education, he founded the ROOTS Endodontic Forum in 2000 and the interdisciplinary BeiDE-NEXUS Facebook forum in 2015.

His  credo is “share knowledge and care about those with whom it is shared”.