PRDM 149 | First Semester
INTRODUCTION TO IMPLANTOLOGY
● Mid-late 1800’s - silver capsules, corrugated
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porcelain, and iridium tubes
INTRODUCTION
A. History, Scope, and Philosophy Brothers Strock to Building Spirals
B. Implant Overview and Terminology
● 1913 Dr. EJ Greenfield - placed a “24-gauge
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course incision made for it in the jaw-bone
● 1930’s - two brothers, Drs. Alvin and Moses
“There’s Gold (Ivory and Stone)
Strock, experimented with orthopedic screw
● 2500 BC - ancient Egyptians tried to stabilize
fixtures made of Vitallium (chromium-cobalt
teeth with the use of ligature wire made of
alloy). Vitallium screw provided anchorage and
gold
support for replacement of the missing tooth.
● 500 BC - Etruscans customized soldered gold
● Strock brothers were also thought to be the
bands from animals to restore oral function in
first to place the first successful endosteal (in
humans
the bone) implant.
Dr. Alvin Strock (established the use of
● 300 AD - Phoenicians used teeth creatively
antibiotics - trench mouth)
carved out of ivory which were then stabilized
by gold wire to create a fixed bridge
● 1938 Dr. P.B. Adams - patented a cylindrical
endosseous implant that was threaded both
● 600 AD – Mayans excelled in utilizing pieces of
internally and externally; it had a smooth
shells as implants as a replacement for
gingival collar and a healing cap
mandibular teeth
● 1940’s Formiggini (“Father of Modern
● 800 AD - stone implant was first prepared and
Implantology”) and Zepponi - developed
placed in the mandible in the early Honduran
post-type endosseous stainless steel implant
culture
using stainless steel wire
● Dr. Perron Andres - modified Formiggini’s
From Rocks to Roosters - Early Implants Emerge spiral design to include a solid steel shaft in
● 1600’s - teeth in Europe were collected from the implant
the underprivileged or from cadavers for the
use of allotransplantation Implant Discovery Continues… The Fabulous Forties and
Fantastic Fifties
● Dr. John Hunter - worked with
“resurrectionists”, document with great detail ● Dr. Raphael Chercheve from France - added
the anatomy of the mouth and jaw. to the spiral design by creating burs to ease
Implantation of an incompletely developed the insertion of the implant for a best fit
tooth into the comb of a rooster.
● 1940’s by Dahl in Sweden - subperiosteal (on
● 1809 Maggiolo - inserted a gold implant tube the bone) implant was developed (involved flat
into a fresh extraction site, allowed to heal and abutments and screws which lay over the crest
then a crown was later added. of the alveolar ridge)
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PRDM 149 | First Semester
INTRODUCTION TO IMPLANTOLOGY
● Dr. Weiss and Judy - intramucosal inserts
● 1947 Gershkoff and Goldberg - produced a during this time; the inserts helped in the
cobalt-chromium-molybdenum implant with an retention of removable maxillary prostheses
extension of Dahl’s design to include the ● 1975 Dr. Small - implant device placed through
external oblique ridge a submental incision and attached to the
mandible was introduced “first transosteal
● Dr. Lew - Lew utilized a direct impression implant called the mandibular staple implant”
method which used fewer supports over the
ridge crest “There’s Gold (Ivory and Stone)
● 1980’s Dr. Schroder and Dr. Straumann of
● 1950’s, Dr. Bodine - holes for the screws were
Switzerland - experimented with metals
located in areas where the bone had the
utilized in orthopedic surgery to help fabricate
greatest strength and thickness
dental implants
● Dr. Lee who introduced the use of an
● middle of the 1980’s, the customary implant
endosseous implant with a central post
used by many dental clinicians was the
endosseous root-form implant
Increase of Implant Innovation: 1960’s-1970’s
● 1960’s Dr. Cherchieve crafted a double-helical ● Dr. Tatum introduced the omni R implant in the
spiral implant; it was made of cobalt and early 1980’s; it had horizontal fins made up of
chromium titanium alloy
● Dr. Giordano Muratori - addition of internal ● Dr. Niznick - introduced the Core-Vent implant
threading to the shaft of the implant in the early part of the 1980’s. It was a hollow
basket implant with a threaded piece in it
● Dr. Leonard Linkow in 1963 - basic spiral which helped to engage the bone.
design was turned into a flat plate - He also manufactured the Screw-Vent
implant which had a hydroxyapatite
● Dr. Linkow – introduced two variations of the coating on it.
blade implant, making it possible to place it in - Dr. Niznick continued to develop other
either the maxilla or the mandible - Ventplant systems including the Bio-Vent and the
implant Micro-Vent.
● Dr. Sandhaus mid-60’s - developed a ● Dr. Driskell in the 1980’s introduced the
crystallized bone screw whose composition Stryker “root form” endosseous implant; there
was mainly that of aluminum are two versions of this-one made with a
titanium alloy and another coated with
● doctors Roberts and Roberts 1970’s - hydroxyapatite
development of the Ramus Blade endosseous
implant “synthetic third molar” ● IMZ implant which was introduced by Dr.
- They also developed the ramus frame implant Kirsch - had a titanium surface spray to
which received its stability by anchoring in the increase interface surface area and it also had
ramus bilaterally as well as in the symphysis an intra-mobile element in it to duplicate the
area mobility of natural teeth
● Dr. Grenoble - placement of vitreous carbon ● The Calcitek Corporation in the early 1980’s
implants started making a synthetic polycrystalline
ceramic hydroxylapatite called calcitite
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