Professor Tomas Albrektsson

The First Global Osseointegration Day​

​

​Learning objectives:

• Recognize that the first individual to try controlled placement of osseointegrated oral implants was a Swedish physician and anatomist named P-I Brånemark.

• Learn that osseointegration is bone anchorage of oral, craniofacial and orthopedic implants that provides long term clinical function.

• Understand that osseointegration, with growth and potential loss of anchoring bone, is primarily related to reactions governed by the immune system of the body.