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The House that Jack Built
Inspired by that first experience, Dr. Jack Hahn went
on to develop implant techniques and devices known
for their simple yet ingenious designs that are used
around the world today.
1977 Miter blade-form implants
1979 Titanodont root-form implants
1986 Steri-Oss root-form and blade implants
1997
NobelReplace ® Tapered implant
(Nobel Biocare)
I didn’t sleep the
night before.
Evolution in Immediate Function
purchase the implant kit, which consisted of 12 one-piece
blades, 700 XXL burs, depth gauge, mallet, pliers, and seating
instrument. A channel was prepared, and the implants
were malleted into place using the seating instruments. As
the implants were one piece with an abutment portion,
one or two of the anterior abutment teeth were prepared,
and an immediate provisional restoration was placed for
immediate function. Three to six weeks post-insertion,
impressions were taken for the final restoration: basically,
a fixed bridge.
Two months after completing the course, my first potential
implant patient was sitting in my office for a consultation.
She was bilaterally edentulous from the second premolars
in the posterior mandible back. Her partial denture was
wrapped in Kleenex in her purse. She said: “I can’t wear
this thing, and I hate it. I want something permanent.”
I told her that I had just taken an implant course, that
she would be my first patient, and that I didn’t know if
the things I demonstrated to her on my model would last
10 minutes or 10 years. But she had good height and width
of bone, so it seemed to me to be an ideal case. I told her
we could do one side first, see how it went, and do the
other side a month later. I also told her that because it was
my first implant, I wouldn’t charge her for the implant, only
the fixed bridge. She said, “Let’s do it.”
In March of that same year, we scheduled Irma from 1:30
p.m. to 5 p.m. I didn’t sleep the night before. I kept going
over in my mind the incision, reflection of the soft tissue,
implant groove preparation, implant placement, suturing,
and fabrication of the provisional restoration.
– My First Implant: Dr. Jack Hahn – 13