John Hunter classified teeth and recommended
removing the first or second premolar in cases of empyema of the maxillary
sinus. In 1778, Actual published a
treatise on the disease of the teeth.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there were multiple attempts at
dental transplants, with a clear epicenter in France,
which had influence throughout Europe and North America.
During the nineteenth century and the early twentieth there was a setback in
the rise of transplants for moral reasons, because it was felt that to extract
a tooth from the poor for implanting into the rich was neither correct nor hygienic
because of the danger of transmission of diseases. There was also disappointment at the outcome
of autotransplantation, defended almost exclusively by Magitot. Against this backdrop, the path of
implantology and autotransplantion was blind and aimless. This led to the search for alternatives to
natural teeth.
In1910 E.J. Greenfield
used a basket of iridium and 24 carat gold, which was introduced in the
alveoli. Greenfield was regarded as the scientist who,
in 1915, documented the foundations of modern implantology. He referred to the health standards of
cleanliness and sterility, and introduced innovative concepts such as the
current relevance of the intimate association between implant and bone, before
moving to the next stage, and also described the concept of submerged implant,
the healing tissue and dental implant immobility.
This period emerged from 1640, with the English
Revolution until 1871, with the Paris Commune.
In the modern age of knowledge and experience, the theory and practice
of dentistry was beginning to be disclosed in various publications through the
invention of printing in the fifteenth century.
In 1728 France,
Pierre Fauchard published his famous work Chirurgie
Dent ou traite des dents, which provides extensive medical-surgical
knowledge. With significant
contributions regarding techniques and instruments, it was of unquestionable
value to the practice of oral surgery.
The beginning of the nineteenth century saw the
placement of the first intra-metallic implants, stressed by dentists such as
Maggiolo, who in 1809 introduced a gold implant in the alveoli of a freshly
extracted tooth, which consisted of three parts. This will not be enough and the next
breakthrough will come from the hands of surgery.
Contemporary age
This age takes place between 1871, with the Paris Commune, and lasted until
1917, with the Russian Revolution.
The surgeons introduced wire, nails and plates to resolve fractures. In the late nineteenth century several
dentists were initiators. Harris, in
1887, introduced a root of platinum coated lead in an alveoli created
artificially; R. Payne presented his technique of implantation in the Third
International Dental Congress, held in 1901, using a silver capsule placed in
the alveoli of a root. Then in 1909,
Algrave demonstrated the failure of this technique with silver, given the toxicity
of this metal in the bone.
History Dental Implants 1600 – 1900 AD
