The History of Implant

Dental implant is an artificial teeth replacement that was first developed in 1952 by a Swedish scientist named Per-Ingvar Branemark. In a modestly appointed laboratory in the university town of Lund, Sweden, he had a lucky accident... what most of the scientists call serendipity.

One day of Branemark's study, he discovered it was totally impossible to recover any of the bone-anchored titanium microscopes he was using at that time for research. The titanium had apparently bonded irreversibly to living bone tissue, an observation which contradicted contemporary scientific theory.

Then his curiosity aroused day by day, he demonstrated that - under carefully controlled conditions - titanium could be structurally integrated into living bone with a high degree of predictability. Also, without long-term soft tissue inflammation or ultimate fixture rejection. He named the phenomenon osseointegration.

The first practical application of osseointegration was the implantation of new titanium roots in an edentulous patient in 1965. More than forty years later, the non-removable teeth attached to these roots are still functioning perfectly.

Implants arose from the patient's need to secure loose-fitting dentures. Since the advent of the implant, engineering and enhancements to the implant have enabled dentists to expand the implant’s usefulness, including the replacement of missing or lost teeth. Today, implant techniques provide a wide range of tooth replacement solutions including:
- Single Tooth Replacement
- Anterior Replacement
- Posterior Replacement
- Full Upper Replacement