Did you know that dental implants have been around for over 1000 years ! It all began with the ancient Mayan civilization. When someone was missing a tooth, they used a seashell shaped like a tooth and placed into the missing space ! The Egyptians also used similar technology in the form of shell and ivory as found in excavation of Egyptian tomb artifacts.
The dental implants that we know today were invented by professor Branemark accidentally around the 60’s. During his research it was found that screws that were meant to be removable after bone repair in the body actually fused to the jaw bone ! This lead to the idea of using these firm screws or anchors to replace missing teeth.
Leading to today, dental implants have developed and evolved over the last 40 years to become more mainstream to replace missing teeth for many patients by our Bowmanville dentists.
We use dental implants daily to replace missing or broken teeth. This can be to many reasons such as big cavities, fractured teeth etc. We truly believe that dental implants help to make our job easier and less involved in getting your mouth back to a healthy function.
Dental implants have a very high success rate. In the rare cases that a dental implant does not work, we will gladly replace it with another at no cost to you!
Feel free to contact us for your free dental implant consultation.
Sincerely
Dr. Mark Bishara
