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19Dental Tribune Middle East & Africa Edition | May - June 2014 NEWS > Page 34 Figure 3. (Titanium optic chamber fixed to the rabbit’s tibia and fibula) “The edentulous patient is an amputee, an oral invalid, to whom we should pay total respect and rehabilitation ambitions”. Per-Ingvar Brånemark By Safa Tahmasebi DDS MS A s a professor of surgery and research, P-I Bråne- mark is considered the father of modern dental Implan- tology (Figure 1) . In the early 50’s he discovered the process of osseointegration, which later was referred to as the direct structural and functional con- nection between living bone and the surface of a load-bear- ing artificial implant. (Figure 2) This discovery was a result of a series of vital microscopic ex- periments on blood in mobile tissues, bone and bone marrow by placing titanium optic cham- bers in rabbit’s tibia. Later it was discovered it was extremely dif- ficult to remove these chambers for further use after a period of healing. (Figure 3) Since then Brånemark and his team conducted numerous re- search aimed at Orthopedics, joint replacements, plastic sur- gery and tumor defects. In 1965 Brånemark treated the first hu- man patient Gösta Larsson with titanium dental implants who was missing teeth as a result of jaw deformities. Larsson passed away in 2006 and used his im- plants for more than 40 years. (Figure 4 - page 34) The initial reaction of skepti- cism and doubt was overcome in 1982 in North America at the Toronto conference on osseinte- gration. Here the biology, clini- cal research and applications of osseointegration were present- ed to the world and since then for 32 yeas millions of people have been able to benefit from the life changing contributions of osseointegration. Today the rehabilitation of pa- tients with oral, Maxillofacial and orthopedic impairments has been accepted and adopted by the international commu- nity and through a worldwide collaboration and ongoing re- search and advancements we have gained enormous knowl- edge for treating our patients. These advancements have allowed the clinicians to ap- ply load-bearing implants with teeth the day of the surgery and this has had a remarkable im- pact into the quality of the pa- tient’s lives. In 1989 Professor Brånemark founded the first The Bråne- mark Osseointegration Center (BOC) in Gothenburg, Sweden (www.branemark.com). BOC’s principal task was to offer man- agement for patients with se- vere oral, maxillo-facial and orthopedic disablements. There are only 10 such clinics in the world and in the June of 2013 due to its excellence in dental implant treatment the Dubai BOC was founded by Dr Cotsa Nicolopoulos and Dr. Petros Figure 1. Professor Per-Ingvar Brånemark Figure 2. (Scanning electron micro- graph showing a bone cell attach- ing to titanium) Yuvanoglu at the Dubai Health- care City and named SameDay Dental Implants (www.Samed- ayme.com). This demonstrates a milestone of progress for the health system in Dubai being able to host a BOC in the Mid- dle East. “With dental implants & new teeth all in one day my life changed thanks to SAME DAY DENTAL IMPLANTS. I can now