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implants_letter to dentists I remember in the late 1960s. when none of the dental universities invited me to lecture on implants. I was very fortunate to be given that chance at the Institute for Graduate Dentists which was situated on West 67th. Street and Broadway in NYC. There was only room for 50 seats but there existed a sliding back wall that allowed another 15 seats. I gave three to ive courses each year for about ive years and the dentists were breaking down the doors to take my courses. Strangely enough no oral surgeons ever ap- peared which lead to their demise. The general practitioners took these courses and did many implants which eventually gave them the coura- ge to do apicoectomies, third molars extractions and many more of the surgical procedures that they would originally refer out to the oral sur- geons. So for a good number of years they were hurting inancially pretty good. Then came the savior! Branemark and Noble Pharma did some brilliant research which led them to realize that the oral surgeons were sta- rving. So they did a two-fold move. They irst downplayed all screw, blade and subperiosteal implants claiming they were no good and then presented their “Osseo integra- ted” root form implant that must irst be buried in bone for three to six months and be placed into bone with slow running contrangles and it came of a great success and they only allowed these starving oral surgeons to use their implants and naturally they all jumped on this bandwagon. Today, of course Noble Pharma is pushing im- mediate loaded implants which were my proce- dures from the very beginning. So this tells just a small part of the story. For one not to do blade/plate form implants or sub- periosteal implants is like telling a patient who is blind that there are no ways to restore his site when there are. Dentists who teach implant dentistry in uni- versities or to study groups or congresses that continually ignore the beneits of these other implants are not only short changing themselves but also even more importantly short changing their patients. You all have been brainwashed (Branewashed) by the multimillion dollar marketing companies and you all fell for it. You should be ashamed of yourselves – all of you. To continually push the envelope beyond its limitations so bone augmentations can be used anywhere, just so they could create an arena for the placement of some root form screw rather than place a properly designed implant type to it the unusual bone remains is going way out of line. I was always hoping that the tremendo- us amount of pioneering work I have done in implant dentistry would someday allow the fu- ture ield to fall on fertile ground. It’s still not too late. Just to add another lame to the ire I want to say emphatically that Dr. Marco Pasqualini and Dr. GianCarlo Cortese are eons ahead in im- plant dentistry than you political demons can ever reach._ Leonard Linkow implants 1_2017 4343