Basics Of Dental Implantology For The Oral Surgeon

Basics of Dental Implantology for the Oral Surgeon 18 Supriya Ebenezer, Vinay V. Kumar, and Andreas Thor 18.1 H istory and Evolution of Dental surface, and the American Core vent implants made of tita- Implants nium aluminum vanadium alloy [1]. However,... More

Basics of Dental Implantology for the Oral Surgeon 18 Supriya Ebenezer, Vinay V. Kumar, and Andreas Thor 18.1 H istory and Evolution of Dental surface, and the American Core vent implants made of tita- Implants nium aluminum vanadium alloy [1]. However, based on the research from Albrektsson, commercially pure titanium Modern implant dentistry started more than 50  years ago became the material of choice. One-piece implants slowly when Dr. P.I. Brånemark, a Professor from the University of evolved to two-piece implants to provide prosthetic Gothenburg (Sweden), discovered in rabbit studies that tita- flexibility. nium chambers placed in the fibula became firmly anchored Over the next 15  years, implantology shifted from the in bone and could not be removed. Later, this direct bone-to-­ treatment of fully edentulous patients to the treatment of par- implant contact was termed osseointegration [1]. He demon- tially edentulous patients as well. Prosthetic components for strated that titan Less