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Implant
About 500 BC, the In the 1700’s, Dr. they implant orthope-
Etruscans customized Hunter suggested dic screw fixtures made
soldered gold bands transplanting teeth of Vitallium (chromi-
from animals they from one human to um-cobalt alloy). Which
also fashioned another; by implan- was very close to plac-
ing implants in the hip
replacements for teeth tation of an incom- bone, so they implanted
from oxen bones all pletely developed them in humans and
of this effort is to re- tooth into the comb dogs . The screw pro-
store function of teeth of a rooster ,the vided anchorage and
but the first evidence tooth became firm- support for replacement
of dental implants ly embedded in the of the missing tooth ,It
beginning with utiliz- comb and the blood was the first biocompat-
ing pieces of shells or vessels of the roost- ible metal to be used.
stone for implants er grew straight into then cylindrical endos-
seous implant that was
most of them were the pulp of the tooth threaded internally and
replacement for man- in the past we also externally , and post-
dibular teeth. used metals to re- type endosseous im-
store teeth as inser- plant was developed by
tion of gold tube into Formiggini (“Father of
a fresh extraction Modern Implantology”)
site.And another ex- it was spiral implant
peiment was Brothers made by constructing a
Strock to Building Spi- stainless steel wire on it-
rals“24-gauge hollow self which allowed bone
latticed cylinder of iri- to grow.
dio-platinum soldered
with 24-karat gold” as
an artificial root ,
