Who is the Father of Implant Dentistry?
Celebrating the man who made our modern dental treatments possible Bowtied and bespectacled in a video interview, Per Ingvar Brånemark’s emphatic hand gestures underscore his every word: “No one should die with their teeth in a glass of water.” The statement encapsulates the passion and life’s work of the man praised as the father of […]Implant Dentistry: Then and Now
Written by Megan Rose, Physician Assistant. For thousands of years, humankind has been replacing missing teeth using dental implants in one form or another. Ancient Egyptians as early as 2500BC used ligature wire made of gold to stabilize loose teeth1. They also used pieces of sea shells and stones as primitive implanted teeth2. Later, in […] 