BDS · Periodontology / Prosthodontics · TOPIC 12 Dental Implants & Peri-Implant Diseases From Brånemark's accidental titanium-bone bond to a same-day digital prosthesis — and the biofilm-driven failures that still threaten every implant The story of modern implant dentistry begins with a Swedish orthopaedic surgeon, Per-Ingvar Brånemark , who in 1952 fixed a titanium chamber into a rabbit fibula to study marrow circulation — and discovered that he could not get it out. The bone had fused to the metal. He called the phenomenon osseointegration and, twelve years later, placed the f…
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