Travel Back In Time | The First Experiment With Titanium

The origins of the osseointegration go back to the early 1950's when the Swedish professor, Per-Ingvar Branemark first began conducting experimenting with titanium implant chambers to study blood flow in rabbit one. He discovered that the bone had integrated so completely with the implant that the chamber could not removed.

Branemark called the discovery "osseointegration."
in the mid 1960's, he began his first successful experiment on humans. His first patient went on to live another 40 years with the original implants still in place and functioning well.

Eventually an emerging breed of young academics started to notice the work being performed in Sweden and at a Toronto Conference in 1983 the worldwide scientific community finally began accepting Branemark's work. Today, osseointegration is highly predictable and used for dental implants.