Archeologists in the 1930′s discovered that Mayan civilization has practiced using tooth-shaped shells as tooth replacement. This was confirmed in 1970, when Brazilian dental academic Professor Amadeo Bobbio studied the specimen and found that such implants were secured by bone formations, showing the implants were placed during its lifetime. In 1952, Swedish Professor Per-Ingvar Branemark, using rabbits in his studies, discovered that titanium was an ideal implant because the bone regenerates around the material – which was later termed as “osseointegration”. In 1965, he placed the first dental implant in a human volunteer.
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[...] of a dental implant, generally means the osseointegration process didn’t successfully go through. [...]