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In this Issue:
Editorial :
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-Ingvar Brånemark 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 .i.e. until 1970 the
archaeological world considered that these shells were placed after
death in a manner also observed in the ancient Egyptians. in 1970,
Professor Amadeo Bobbio of brazil 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.In the 1950s research was being
conducted at Cambridge University in England to study blood flow in
vivo. These workers devised a method of constructing a chamber of
titanium which was then embedded into the soft tissue of the ears of
rabbits. In 1952 the Swedish orthopaedic surgeon, P I Brånemark, was
interested in studying bone healing and regeneration, and adopted
the Cambridge designed ‘rabbit ear chamber’ for use in the rabbit
femur. Following several months of study he attempted to retrieve
these expensive chambers from the rabbits and found that he was
unable to remove them. Per Brånemark observed that bone had grown
into such close proximity with the titanium that it effectively
adhered to the metal. Brånemark carried out many further studies
into this phenomenon, using both animal and human subjects, which
all confirmed this unique property of titanium. In 1965 Brånemark,
who was by then the Professor of Anatomy at Gothenburg University in
Sweden, placed the first titanium dental implant into a human
volunteer, a Swede named Gösta Larsson. mailto: dentistryunited at gmail dot com Yours truly Dr. Syed Nabeel Editor of Dental Follicle & WebMaster www.DentistryUnited.com News : DentistryUnited Ranks in top 10 on GOOGLE Laughter - The Best Medicine : There was this case in the hospital's Intensive Care ward where patients always died in the same bed and on Sunday morning at 11 a.m., regardless of their medical condition. This puzzled the doctors and some even thought that it had something to do with the supernatural. No one could solve the mystery ..... as to why the deaths at 11 AM. So a world-wide expert team was constituted and they decide to go down to the ward to investigate the cause of the incidents. On the next Sunday morning, a few minutes before 11 a.m., all of the doctors and nurses nervously waited outside the ward to see for themselves what the terrible phenomenon was all about. Some were holding wooden crosses, prayer books, and other holy objects to ward off the evil spirits ... Just then, when the clock struck 11... Phil, the part-time Sunday sweeper, entered the ward and unplugged the life support system so that he could use the vacuum cleaner!!!!!!!
Why most Advertising doesn’t work? - 1
By Dr.Bhavna Doshi. BDS (Lon).
Dr Bhavna Doshi is an international lecturer, who has worked extensively with the National Media including Extreme Makeover UK. She is the CEO of Dental WEALTH Builder, which primarily focuses on Practice Productivity, Cost-Effective Marketing and Growth Strategies.
Although many of us dentists do advertising to some degree,
a majority of the dental advertisements are ineffective.
Usually, they are more similar to enlarged expensive
business cards or a scientific representation of the
practice with all its associated scientific jargon.
(Although to be fair I am occasionally treated by the odd
snippet of a well intended ad.) Dentists love dental talk,
but unfortunately for us, the rest of the population amongst
other things still think endodontic posts, implants, root
canal treatments and restoration of their own roots to be
one and the same!
As a special Dental WEALTH Builder launch gift, I have packaged together a “7 Gift” compilation, one of which is “The Top Ten Biggest Advertising Mistakes in Dentistry” manual. To obtain your FREE gifts please go to www.dentalwealthbuilder.com and sign in for these Gifts.
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