An implant is a kind of medical device made to replace and act as a missing biological structure ( as compared with a transplant, which indicates transplanted biomedical tissue ).

Some cochlear implant designs and intra-cochlear implantations were made by others ( see Cochlear Technology by Adam M. Kissiah, Jr .) prior to the mid-1970s, and were considered " successful " from a surgical and medical point of view.

The Tudors had made sure to seize the original parish church of St Gregory and align it with their policies enacted by the Earl of Warwick's faction ( which was not local ), that supplanted the earlier Tudor implant of the Digby family, who had " gone native " and been drawn into local sympathies of anti-Elizabethan rebellion.

When the procedure is done using a post-like implant, an incision is made a small distance from the site.

The contemporary models of saline breast implant are manufactured with thicker, room-temperature vulcanized ( RTV ) shells made of a silicone elastomer.

The study In vitro Deflation of Pre-filled Saline Breast Implants ( 2006 ) reported that the rates of deflation ( filler leakage ) of the pre-filled saline breast implant made it a second choice for corrective breast surgery.

Since the mid-1990s, the Fifth generation of silicone breast implant is made of a semi-solid gel that mostly eliminates filler leakage ( silicone gel bleed ) and silicone migration from the breast to elsewhere in the body.

# Inframammary — an incision made below the breast, in the infra-mammary fold ( IMF ), which affords maximal access for precise dissection and emplacement of the breast implant devices.

Additional filings have been made to the FDA by Children's Hospital Research Center Oakland requesting approval to surgically implant Medtronic SynchroMed pumps into the twins to deliver continuous doses of HPbCD into their brains.

A dental implant is a " root " device, usually made of titanium, used in dentistry to support restorations that resemble a tooth or group of teeth to replace missing teeth.

Today most implants are still made out of commercially pure titanium ( grades 1 to 4 ) but some implant systems are fabricated out of the Ti-6Al-4V alloy.

Traditionally, an incision is made over the crest of the site where the implant is to be placed.

Usually, physical models or impressions of the patient's jawbones and teeth are made by the restorative dentist at the implant surgeons request, and are used as physical aids to treatment planning.

He had a lens manufactured using the same material — brand name Perspex made by ICI — and on 29 November 1949 at St Thomas ' Hospital, Harold Ridley achieved the first implant of an intraocular lens, although it was not until 1950 that he left an artificial lens permanently in place in an eye.

Also, while most older ear piercing studs were not made of materials certified by the FDA or ASTM as safe for long term implant in the human body, which could lead to materials from underlying alloys leaching into human tissue through corrosion, scratches and surface defects, causing cytotoxicity and allergic reaction, more recent designs offer much safer options such as titanium.

His firm made its business handling plaintiff's litigation, including representing clients suing breast implant manufacturers, medical facilities, and tobacco companies.

He is most widely remembered as the probable inventor of the thaumatrope, which he used to demonstrate persistence of vision to the Royal College of Physicians in London in 1824 ; at about this time he wrote a book entitled Philosophy in sport made science in earnest: being an attempt to implant in the young mind the first principles of natural philosophy by the aid of the popular toys and sports of youth which extended the principle of using simple devices to give convincing demonstrations of scientific principles.

Contemporary body jewelry is made from surgical grade implant materials, so with proper aftercare during the healing phase and good hygiene, this is rare.

Nexplanon, or the almost identical Implanon, is a single-rod subdermal contraceptive implant made by Merck & Co. that is inserted just under the skin of a woman's upper arm and contains etonorgestrel.

A small incision is made in the skin over the end of the implant site.

Von Eschenbach was criticized for overruling his staff recommendations, and approving the Menaflex knee implant, made by ReGen Biologics Inc., New Jersey, on a fast-track basis, after four New Jersey congressmen lobbied on ReGen's behalf.

The half-man received a dromozootic implant, turned red in the face, shouted senselessly at Mercer, `` Take it out, you fool!!

Ballard tried out this implant and it enabled him to walk again, but the neural profile of Adam ( from which the implant was taken ) was also imprinted in the implant, and it gradually ' leaked ' into Ballard's consciousness, effectively causing the residual ' mind ' of Adam to possess Ballard.

According to John Kampfner, " Emboldened by their experience in Afghanistan, they saw the opportunity to root out hostile regimes in the Middle East and to implant very American interpretations of democracy and free markets, from Iraq to Iran and Saudi Arabia.

* An episode of the science fiction series The Outer Limits featured a deaf woman receiving alien signals through her cochlear implant, prompting her to write out Xs, 1s, and 0s on paper.

The Alliance scientists, after numerous tests, found that macaab mushrooms would destroy the implant in Triclops ' mind without causing any damage to his brain and so Luke Skywalker set out on an expedition to the planet Azrid where these mushrooms were found to grow, but the operation to destroy the implant never came to fruition as they found that Triclops had managed to escape from the DRPAC leaving only an impassioned letter to his son, Ken.

After Wolverine gouged out Cyber's left eye in combat, it was replaced with an artificial implant.

The legal training requirements for dentists who carry out implant treatment differ from country to country.

A 3D cone beam X-ray provides the necessary data, but even before this step a prudent implantologist may back out or completely remove an implant in an effort to restore nerve function because delay is usually ineffective.

Any practitioner who carries out implant treatment, whether in the surgical insertion or the final provision of the prosthesis, must be adequately trained.

Already Brånemark stated that the implant should not be loaded and left out of function during the healing period for osseous integration to occur.

featured an object that Chase believed to be an alien implant in a patient's neck, but turned out to be a fragment of a medical pin.

Another surgical option for this stage is a titanium, silicon or pyrocarbon implant that takes place of the lunate, though doctors shy from this due to a tendency of the implant to smooth the edges of the surrounding bones, thus causing painful pinched nerves when the bones slip out of place.

Exploiting Megatron's attempts to implant his spark within a Vehicon body, Cyclonus retained his own free will and set out to fulfil his Decepticon heritage alongside the other renegade Vehicons, Skywarp and Rotorbolt.

In the 1981 BBC serial The Nightmare Man the pilot of a high-tech mini submarine is linked to his craft via a brain implant but becomes a savage killer after ripping out the implant.

Unfortunately the effects of the implant burn out their system between six months to a year and kill them.

Also described as a fireman's carry implant DDT, this move sees the attacking wrestler first put an opponent up in the fireman's carry ( across the wrestler's shoulders ) position, then throw the opponent's legs out in front of him / her to spin them out while the attacking wrestler switches the position of his / her arm that's holding the opponent's head to a front facelock and falls backwards to drive the top of the opponent's head in to the mat.

In some cases today titanium is used instead in procedures that require a metal implant which will be permanent.

The BAHA sound processor sits on this abutment and transmits sound vibrations to the external abutment of the titanium implant.

** Implants — a procedure in which a titanium implant is surgically placed in the bone ( mandible or maxilla ), allowed to heal, and 4-6 months later an artificial tooth is connected to the implant by cement or retained by a screw.

In 1965 Brånemark, who was by then the Professor of Anatomy at Gothenburg University in Sweden, placed his first titanium dental implant into a human volunteer.

A typical implant consists of a titanium screw ( resembling a tooth root ) with a roughened or smooth surface.

Implant loading from chewing and parafunction ( abnormal grinding or clenching habits ) can exceed the biomechanic tolerance of the implant bone interface and / or the titanium material itself, causing failure.

Femoral component is cobalt chromium combined with titanium which induces bone growth into the implant.

" Look for implant certified titanium ( Ti6Al4V ELI ) that is ASTM F136 compliant or ISO 5832-3 compliant, or commercially pure titanium that is ASTM F-67 compliant.

In 1952, Per-Ingvar Brånemark of Sweden conducted an experiment where he utilized a titanium implant chamber to study blood flow in rabbit bone.

At the conclusion of the experiment, when it became time to remove the titanium chambers from the bone, he discovered that the bone had integrated so completely with the implant that the chamber could not be removed.

Mechanical retention can be achieved in cases where the implant material is a metal, for example, commercially pure titanium and titanium alloys.