Dental Implant - History

ANCIENT   IMPLANTS :-

Ú 16 th        Dark stone        

                        ( Egyptian-South American)

Ú 17 th        Carved ivory teeth

EARLY   IMPLANTS :-

Ú 1809        Gold implant

Ú e.20th     Lead, iridium, tantalum,  

                stainless steel, & cobalt alloy

Ú 1913        hollow basket, iridium + gold wires

EARLY   IMPLANTS

Ú 1937   Adams’s submergible threaded 

             cylindrical implant with round bottom

Ú 1938    Strock’s (long term) threaded vitallium

              implant (cobalt+chrome+molybdenum) 

Ú The modern implants appear to be variants or composites of some of the designs of early implants