A quarter of a century as a trendsetter in implant dentistry

摘要

With this issue (January 2014), Clinical Oral Implants Research enters its silver anniversary. Twenty-five years ago, implant dentistry was at the beginning of its development into a discipline that was not only novel and exciting, but was to introduce a true paradigm shift in reconstructive dentistry. It was now possible to incorporate a piece of titanium into the jaw bone that was not perceived as a foreign body by the host. The process of osseointegration or functional ankylosis that had been discovered independently by the two eminent clinical researchers P.-I. Branemark in Gothenburg, Sweden and Andre Schroeder in Berne, Switzerland was going to change the treatment planning in patients with mutilated dentitions to be reconstructed. Initially, a documentation of single cases led to the initiation of clinical trials studying survival rates of implant-borne reconstructions. As time elapsed, it was realized that survival of implants and reconstructions was not enough to evaluate the outcome of implant dentistry. Success criteria were introduced and studied, and the biological reactions of the tissues surrounding the implants were explored.