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Dental implants are substitutes for teeth that are inserted into the jawbone or mandible by surgery. They are made of titanium metal owned integrated into the bone was discovered by accident in the 60s.
Implants as we know them today emerged from the investigations of a Swedish orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Branemark Irmag during their studies of blood circulation in bones.
He discovered how the optical fiber coated with titanium, which introduced into the bone of rabbits to look under a microscope the changes occurring in the same could not be removed from the bone after a few weeks of being in contact with him. From this developed the concept of “osseointegration,” which is the intimate union of the bone material after long-term stay in touch.