🔹Ambroise Pare (1517–1590) was first to close palatal perforations.
🔹Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) was famous Danish astronomer who made an artificial nose of gold and silver.
🔹First artificial eye was made of glass in 1579 in Venice.
🔹Pierre Fauchard (1728), considered as the father of modern dentistry, used palatal perforations to retain artificial dentures.
🔹Snell (1823) fabricated gold plate obturator.
🔹Goodyear (1855) developed vulcanite rubber used for improved velar design.
🔹Bulbian (1942) introduced the use of prevulcanized latex for pliable facial prosthetic restoration.
🔹American Academy of Maxillofacial Prosthetics was formed in 1953.
🔹Branemark and associates first placed extraoral implant in the mastoid region to support a bone conduction hearing aid in 1977.
🔹BAHA, i.e. bone-anchored hearing aid, was approved by the Swedish health system in 1988.Â
🔹Barnhart was first to use silicone rubber for construction and colouring of facial prosthesis.
🔹Magnus Jacobsson described the role of osseointegrated skin-penetrating titanium fixtures used for retaining facial prosthesis.
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