Every "new" dental implant design has been tried before in cruder forms. The library contains ivory and gold implants from 2,000 years ago (Egyptian and Celtic). Studying their failures prevents modern surgical errors.
But what exactly is the Royal Dentistry Library? Is it a single building in London? A digital database? Or a metaphor for the highest standard of dental scholarship? royal dentistry library
Whether you visit the oak-paneled reading room in London or browse the digital stacks from your laptop, you are standing on the shoulders of giants—and checking their occlusion. Every "new" dental implant design has been tried