History of Dental Implants

Question 1

(2500 BC) tried to stabilize shifting or loose teeth with wire made of gold

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Ancient Egyptians

Question 2

(2000 BC) pegs carved from bamboo were used as replacement teeth

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Ancient China

Question 3

(1000 BC) copper pegs were hammered into the jawbone of an ____________________

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Egyptian king

Question 4

(500 BC) used the teeth extracted from slaves to replace those of the more worthy

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Phoenicians

Question 5

(500 BC) used gold bands to fix their teeth

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Etruscans

Question 6

(100 BC) people in different parts of the world replaced missing teeth with teeth from ___________ and ___________

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animals and slaves

Question 7

(600 AD) used seashells to replace missing teeth; used stones and metal inlays to decorate teeth

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Mayans

Question 8

(800 AD) stone implants came into favor in the _________ culture

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Mayan/Honduran

Question 9

(500 BC) wrote about the possibility of anchoring artificial teeth to the gums using gold or silk thread in order to replace extracted elements

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Hippocrates

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(100 AD) mentioned possibility of replacing a missing dental element by implanting a tooth taken from a cadaver

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Cornelius Celsus

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(936-1013) described procedures for replacing lost elements with other teeth made of bony fragments from large mammals

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Abucalsis

Question 12

noted that it was possible to replant teeth that had been ‘expelled from their sockets accidentally, tying them to the remaining teeth’

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Ambroise Pare

Question 13

1700s: ______________

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modern history of implants

Question 14

major obstacle to development of implants by innovators

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inadequate biomaterials

Question 14

inserted a gold implant tube in a fresh extraction site, allowing it to heal passively before adding a crown

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Nancy Maggiolo

Question 14

Nancy Maggiolo’s book holding descriptions of their implant process

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Le Manuel de l’Art du Dentiste

Question 15

(1800s) placed a dried tooth into an extraction socket

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JM Younger

Question 16

(1800s) implanted an extracted tooth and supported it with a rubber dam

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Herbst

Question 17

(1800s) used a porcelain post with a roughened lead surface to support a porcelain crown inserted into an artificial socket

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SM Harris

Question 18

(1800s) inserted gold or iridium tubes into an artificial socket

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William Bonwill

Question 19

(1900s) used metal pins to attach artificial teeth to a denture base

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Giueseppe Angelo Fonzi

Question 20

(1913) presented a paper describing how a hollow, latticed 24k gold cylinder could be used as an artificial root

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EJ Greenfield

Question 21

EJ Greenfield’s presented paper

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Implantation of Artificial Crown and Bridge Abutments

Question 22

(1920) designed a tubular extension implant conceptually similar to modern expendable screw; used 24k gold for the body and platinum for screw

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Frenchman H. Leger-Dorez

Question 23

failure of Frenchman H. Leger-Dorez's "tubular extension" implant

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rigid and forced beyond the endurance of living bone tissue

Question 24

(1930s) experimented with vitallium orthopedic screws, implanting them in both dogs and human subjects to restore individual teeth

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Alvin and Moses Strock

Question 25

(1938) patented a cylindrical endosteal implant that was threaded on the inside and outside but smooth around the gum line

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PB Adams

Question 26

failure of the endosteal implant patented by PB Adams

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extremely low biocompatibility of materials; lack of practical clinical demonstrations

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(1940) designed a post-type endosseous implant whose spiral stainles steel or tantalum wires provided for the ingrowth of bone

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Manlio S. Formiggini

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(1940) modified the basic Formiggini spiral design to include a solid shaft

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Perron Andres

Question 29

(1960) developed a double-helical spiral implant made from cobalt and chromium

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Raphael Chercheve

Question 30

(1960) improved upon the design of Chercheve by adding threads to the internal shaft of the implant

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Giordano Muratoni

Question 31

(1963) innovated a vent-plant implant design and a blade implant originally designed to accommodate into knife-edge ridges where bone width was at a minimum

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Leonard Linkow

Question 32

(1980s) placed titanium chamber in femur of rabbit; coined the term "osseointegration"

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Per-Ingvar Branemark

Question 33

most biocompatible material for human bones

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titanium

Question 34

term coined by Dr. Per-Ingvar Branemark

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osseointegration

Question 35

(1980s) engaged in the development of dental implant system in the 70s and 80s

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Andre Schroeder and Straumann