Hanford Dentists and Dental Implants

By James Richy


Over 1,200 years ago, the Mayans created and implemented the first known implant to be bedded directly in bone. These early implants were made out of seashells. Today, a dental implant is inserted into your mouth by fitting a tiny titanium post into the jaw and allowing the bone to fuse with the implant. Over thousands of years of its existence in medicine and dentistry, dental implants have certainly changed dramatically. Your local Hanford dentist can help you find the best dental implants for you.

Actually, your regular dentist would be the one who would prescribe that you get one depending on the work that must be done on you. You would also be evaluated first before you get any medication from sedative dentists. Usually, a referral from your dentist would be good. This way you can make sure that you are getting your dentist in a reliable manner. But what happens if they merely make a suggestion and not an actual referral for you? You can also try asking from among friends and relatives. Your colleagues at work may also be able to point you to reliable sedation dentists. This way you would be able to ascertain that they would be able to get the job done for you. Through these referrals, you might even get some discounts from the sedation dentists.

What we know of the Mayan civilization using dental implants all comes from the remains of a young woman who was found in 1931 and dates all the way back to 600 AD. Among the bones found was a piece of jaw that had three specifically shaped shells directly embedded in the bone. It took several decades for archaeologists to realize that the shells were not placed in the jaw after death but beforehand when the woman was alive. This means that the Mayans were able to craft their own implants and surgically embed them in bone. A truly amazing feat though the success of the treatment is, and probably always will be, unknown.

Over a thousand years later, in 1952, an orthopedic surgeon from Sweden made the next big advance in dental implants when he began experimenting with fusing titanium to bone. The discovery of titanium's ability to fuse with bone happened by accident but further studies concluded his original assumptions.

He proposed his discovery be used in hip surgery but the medical community preferred it in dental surgery. Though other people used his technique, he himself didn't place a titanium dental implant until the mid 1960s, more than a decade after he first made the discovery. Though he started his discoveries in the 1950s, it wasn't until the early 1980s that his ideas were used commercially. The company he sold his patents to has now placed millions of implants in patients around the world. His discoveries still have modern influence and it extends beyond dentistry and the dental implant to other fields of medicine as well.




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