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Gold implants used by the Etruscans as early as 400BC
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The earliest known dental implant that fused with the jaw bone took place around 600 AD, a 1931 Honduran excavation discovered. A young Mayan woman had implanted in her jaw bone three tooth-shaped shells, two of which fused.
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Root-form, bone-anchored, basket implants
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Reported on the use of cobalt chromium alloy for bone-anchored implants

Blade implants most widely used
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Trans-mandibular screw implants developed into TMI Box Frame Implant

Early 1960s in Gothenborg Branemark & co started developing a novel implant that for clinical function depended on direct bone anchorage.
Research into bone healing - titanium viewing chambers in experimental animals followed by iimplant orientated research and clinical trials

In 1977 there was a 10 year evaluation of Osseointegrated implants

Albrektsson et al presented info on a series of background factors that had to be controlled for reliable implant integration to occur