History

The Founding President of International Dental Educationists Association (IDEA), Dr. Sunil Muddaiah found an urgent requirement to create a dedicated body of world leaders in Oral and General Health to discuss matters of concern in health education, administration, and contemporary research and thus create a multi-centric research platform free of national boundaries. He founded the IDEA in the year 2015 with a few like-minded friends from Asia, Europe, and North America.

It was decided to have the IDEA Head office in India because the subcontinent is fast becoming the most populous in the world representing more than one-fourth of humanity.

Dr. Sunil Muddaiah's founding vision was to make IDEA a vehicle to face the future challenges of Oral and Health Education free of borders through intuitive research. The founding principle of the IDEA is to encourage Research from a nascent stage in the minds of young oral health graduates. It would also focus as a policy think tank to balance oral health curriculum, student fee structures, and dental practices across continents in an era of integration. Artificial intelligence is steadily replacing manpower and is thus being candidly encouraged as a research tool.

Today IDEA stands tall with a robust student strength and a host of academics, scientists, and researchers from all over the globe as members.