The idea of replacing lost teeth with artificial ones is by all means not new. The ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians managed to bind human teeth, or ones carved from ivory, to existing teeth with gold wire and the Mayans made attempts to replace missing teeth in the lower jaw with pieces of sea shells. But only in the latter years of the 20th century would dental implants become a practical reality thanks to the discovery that metallic titanium fuses with bone without any sign of rejection.
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