Dental Implants: How We Got Here
Today, you can replace missing teeth with modern titanium dental implants in a process that takes — from start to finish — as little as six to nine months. At the end of that process, you’ll have a set of new teeth and roots that can reasonably be expected to last a lifetime. The development of implant materials, technologies and procedures to get to the point of this months-long solution for tooth loss, though, has taken millennia — yes, literally thousands of years — to come to fruition. At Chancellor Dental, we get lots of questions about dental implants and their advantages. True, not many of those questions are about the dusty days of implant innovation millennia ago, but just in case you’re curious, here’s an outline of the history of dental implants throughout time. 4,000 years ago Beginning approximately 4,000 years ago, people in China first began using a primitive form of dental implants by inserting small plugs made of bamboo into gaps in their jaws. Those bamboo plugs wer