1Professor & Head, Department of Prosthodontics, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O'Anusandhan, (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
2Reader, Department of Prosthodontics, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O'Anusandhan, (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Sangram Panda, Reader, Department of Prosthodontics, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O'Anusandhan, (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, e-mail: sangrampanda@soa.ac.in
Online published on 27 March, 2020.
The antiquity of the advancement of dental implants is an amusing and mesmerizing travel talk through time, Since the establishment of human life, man have been using dental implants in some way or the other form to compensate the missing tooth. The first known to be used dental implants is certified to Mayan inhabitants somewhere around 600 Ads. In those times they outclassed the substitute of mandibular teeth by making use of pieces of shells as implants. Evidence of radiographs that were taken in the 1970’s of mandible of Mayan reveals formation of compact bone around the foreign implants placed-these bones astonishingly appears so much like that is visible around implant blade. In early Honduran culture around 800 A.D. an implant made up of stone was first constructed and used.
Dental Implants, Contemporary Facts, Ancient Facts, History
