01/06/2026
LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT — JUNE 2026
The Real Measure of an Implant Is Time
In implantology, almost everything is communicated at the beginning.
A new surface.
A new connection.
A new geometry.
Each arrives with its launch, its promise, and its moment of attention.
But an implant does not exist for a launch.
It exists for the years that follow.
The market often measures innovation by what is new.
Biology measures it by what endures.
These are not the same standard.
A result obtained on the day of surgery tells us very little. The connection that feels stable at placement, the marginal bone that appears intact on the first radiograph, or the esthetic outcome visible at delivery are only the beginning of the story.
The real verdict comes later.
It comes from the bone that remains stable after years.
From the connection that has not loosened, has not micro-leaked, and continues to perform under functional load.
From the soft tissue that maintains its position over time.
Time is the only inspector that cannot be influenced by communication.
It does not read catalogs.
It does not respond to marketing.
It does not respond to price.
It measures only one thing: whether what was built was built to last.
This is why precision and longevity are not separate values.
They are the same value observed at different moments.
The tolerance maintained in production today becomes the clinical stability preserved years from now.
What is controlled in the factory is ultimately what is maintained in the mouth.
Designing for time requires discipline. It means validating solutions not over months, but over years. It means focusing on consistency, repeatability, and long-term reliability.
At IML SA, we choose to measure ourselves against time rather than trends.
The evidence that matters most to us is not the case documented on the day of surgery, but the same case followed years later, where the connection, the bone, and the function remain exactly where they were on day one.
Because in our industry, the real difference is rarely visible at the beginning.
The real difference is what is still standing at the end.
Giovanni Canino
President
IML SA
