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As the leading tooth replacement option today, you would think the dental implant<\/a> is a fairly recent technological advancement.<\/p>\n Believe it or not, the first dental implants date back more than 1,300 years. Here\u2019s a timeline of dental implants.<\/p>\n Ancient History: <\/strong>Ancient Mayans and Egyptians hammered tooth-like pieces of shell, ivory, and animal bone directly into their gums to replace teeth.<\/p>\n 1700s:<\/strong> Lost teeth were often replaced using the teeth of human donors, but the process was unsuccessful due to infection from the foreign materials used during the implant process.<\/p>\n 1800s: <\/strong>Gold, platinum, and other metal alloys were used experimentally and placed into sockets where teeth had been recently extracted. Long-term success rates were poor.<\/p>\n 1952: <\/strong>A doctor in Sweden accidentally discovered that titanium can bond with living bone tissue when he placed a titanium screw in an animal\u2019s thighbone. He had the idea to use titanium posts to bond dental implants to patient jawbones.<\/p>\n 1965: <\/strong>Modern dental implants made their world debut!\u00a0 This was the\u00a0beginning of implanting titanium in bone for the purpose of rooting prosthetic teeth.<\/p>\n 1981: <\/strong>Per-Ingvar Branemark, the Swedish doctor who discovered the fusing power of titanium, published a paper reporting all the data he had collected about titanium implants.<\/p>\n 1982: <\/strong>The Toronto Conference on Osseointegration in Clinical Dentistry created the first guidelines for successful implant dentistry.<\/p>\n 2002: <\/strong>An American Dental Association (ADA<\/a>) survey showed that oral and maxillofacial surgeons, periodontists, and general dentists nearly doubled the number of implants performed per dentist between 1995 and 2002.<\/p>\n Today: <\/strong>Dental implants are the number one tooth replacement procedure.<\/p>\n Dr. Peter Pate<\/a> uses dental implants to give his patients beautiful, complete, and healthy smiles that will last a lifetime. Call Dentistry in Buckhead<\/a> in Atlanta, Georgia at (404) 266-9424<\/a> to reserve your consultation appointment with Dr. Pate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Peter Pate uses dental implants to give his patients beautiful, complete, and healthy smiles that will last a lifetime. Call Dentistry in Buckhead in Atlanta, Georgia at (404) 266-9424 to reserve your consultation appointment with Dr. Pate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[130,183,192,320,345,347,503,504,728,729,778,779],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}