Dental implant education and practice in oral and maxillofacial surgery: 25 years of progress.

摘要

Next month the University of Toronto will revisit an event that changed implant education and practice forever, the 1982 osseointegration conference in Toronto. After years of clinical research with PI Brane-mark, George Zarb organized a program that propelled North American dentistry into the era of osseointegration. A key element of that program "was the presentation of 15 years of rigorous clinical research that supported the indications for and uses of implants. Their research supported only very narrow clinical parameters at that time. Those parameters essentially included the treatment of the edentulous mandible, submerged 2-stage implants, 6 months of unloaded healing, machined titanium surfaces, implant placement in native bone, and screw-retained fixed hybrid or overdenture restorations.