False teeth of the Roman world

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1998 France English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature, volume 391, pages 29-29 (issn: 0028-0836, eissn: 1476-4687,

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Authors: Crubézy, Eric; Murail, P.; Girard, Louis; J.P., Bernadou;

doi: 10.1038/34067

False teeth of the Roman world

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The history of dental implants has been looked at before1,2,3,4 but there have been no documented cases of a functional implant from ancient times. We report here a wrought iron dental implant of a right second upper premolar from a Gallo-Roman necropolis at Chantambre (Essonne, France), from the first or second century AD. The implant and the socket fit perfectly together and the osseointegration appears viable.

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X-ray, dental implant, [SHS.ANTHRO-BIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Biological anthropology, Gallo–Roman, France, tooth, necropolis, [SHS.ANTHRO-BIO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Biological anthropology

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