Membership
Apply for membership
Applications are made from an account in the College's members area.
How to apply
- Create an account in the members area with your email address. There is no password — the College emails you a link each time.
- Tell us about your practice: your dental registration, where you practise, when you graduated, and when and where you placed your first implant.
- Apply for the grade you are seeking. The Membership Committee assesses every application and records its decision.
What an account gives you
An account on its own carries no standing with the College, and creating one is not an application. It becomes useful when the Committee grants you a title, or when you take out an affiliation.
Members use it to download their certificate, show a card that verifies against the public register, generate correct wording for their postnominal, control what the register publishes about them, and see the offers their grade carries.
Before you apply
The Membership Committee assesses every application against the published criteria. No payment is taken on this website or in the members area; the College confirms the application fee and annual subscription in writing before your application is assessed. There is nothing to upload — the Committee requests any evidence it needs to see after your application is received.
Membership grades are professional membership designations of the College. They are not academic qualifications recognised for GDC registration, and they do not confer specialist status: the General Dental Council holds no specialist list in implant dentistry.