Modern dental implants in Poland as we know them today were actually discovered by accident! In 1952 the Swedish Professor Per-Ingvar Branemark was working on a clinical research project using rabbit bone and titanium metal. The aim of this research was to examine the blood flow within a rabbit bone using an implant titanium chamber.
Once his experiment was done
and all the data collected, Professor Branemark tried to remove the implant
chamber, only to discover that the rabbit bone had
actually bonded with the surface of titanium metal!
For many hundreds of years
dentists tried to find a substance which would successfully replace teeth, a
substance that could remain permanently fixed in the jaw and wouldn’t be
rejected by the body.
The discovery of titanium’s
complete biocompatibility led to a breakthrough in dentistry. Nowadays, dentistry in Poland uses thousands of implants every year!
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