Biography of dr p i branemark
Biography of dr p i branemark
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The application of osseointegration has been central to the development of both bone-anchored hearing aids and dental implants. But how did it all come about?
Per-Ingvar Brånemark (1929–2014).
Image Johan Wingborg.
Many hearing-impaired patients owe a great debt of gratitude to the Swede, Dr Per-Ingvar Brånemark, yet he was not in fact an otologist, but an anatomist.
Biography of dr p i branemark and sons
Hailed as the father of osseointegration and the godfather of the bone anchored hearing aid (BAHA), Brånemark was born in Karlshamn, Sweden, on 3 May 1929. His name is also revered by modern dentists and he once famously said that “no one should die with their teeth sitting in a glass of water.”
He graduated in medicine from the University of Lund, Sweden, in 1956, and completed his PhD in 1959.
He was later appointed professor of anatomy and director of the Laboratory of Experimental Biology at the nearby University of Gothenburg in 1963.
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