"In an era where mankind routinely flies people into space ... replacement is still implemented as lodging metal spikes" Osseo-integration of titanium was firs

"In an era where mankind routinely flies people into space ... replacement is still implemented as lodging metal spikes" Osseo-integration of titanium was first observed in the 1940s, so the technology for modern dental implants is approximately of the same age as space rockets. (Wernher von Braun designed the first A4/V2 at almost precisely the same time.)