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Old 04-19-2008, 09:28 AM
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The Mayan civilization has been shown to have used the earliest known examples of endosseous implants (implants embedded into bone), dating back over 1,350 years before Per Br�nemark started working with titanium. While excavating Mayan burial sites in Honduras in 1931, archaeologists found a fragment of mandible of Mayan origin, dating from about 600 AD. This mandible, which is considered to be that of a woman in her twenties, had three tooth-shaped pieces of shell placed into the sockets of three missing lower incisor teeth. For forty years the archaeological world considered that these shells were placed under the nose in a manner also observed in the ancient Egyptians. However, in 1970 a Brazilian dental academic, Professor Amadeo Bobbio studied the mandibular specimen and took a series of radiographs. He noted compact bone formation around two of the implants which led him to conclude that the implants were placed during life.
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this is very interesting, Iggy. I printed out a copy to show my friend. her daughter is a dentist.
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Thats quite extraordinary - particularly in that region of the world, in a humid jungle environment, where infection takes hold so very easily.
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Wonder why they don't use ceramic implants. I wonder if titanium has any ill effects.
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Ya but the implants are only good till 2012 A.D. right? ;-P
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