Implant can refer to:
Medicine
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Implant (medicine)
An implant is a medical device manufactured to replace a missing biological structure, support a damaged biological structure, or enhance an existing biological structure. Medical implants are man-made devices, in contrast to a transplant, whi ...
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Brain implant
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Breast implant
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Buttock implant
Gluteoplasty (Greek ''gloutόs'', rump + ''plassein'', to shape) denotes the plastic surgery and the liposuction procedures for the correction of the Congenital defect, congenital, Trauma (medicine), traumatic, and acquired defects and deformit ...
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Cochlear implant
A cochlear implant (CI) is a surgically implanted neuroprosthesis that provides a person who has moderate-to-profound sensorineural hearing loss with sound perception. With the help of therapy, cochlear implants may allow for improved speech unde ...
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Contraceptive implant
A contraceptive implant is an implantable medical device used for the purpose of birth control. The implant may depend on the timed release of hormones to hinder ovulation or sperm development, the ability of copper to act as a natural spermici ...
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Dental implant
A dental implant (also known as an endosseous implant or fixture) is a prosthesis that interfaces with the bone of the jaw or skull to support a dental prosthesis such as a crown, bridge, denture, or facial prosthesis or to act as an orthodo ...
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Fetal tissue implant
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Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) or automated implantable cardioverter defibrillator (AICD) is a device implantable inside the body, able to perform defibrillation, and depending on the type, cardioversion and pacing of the h ...
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Orthopedic implant An orthopedic implant is a medical device manufactured to replace a missing joint or bone or to support a damaged bone. The medical implant is mainly fabricated using stainless steel and titanium alloys for strength and the plastic coating that is ...
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Prosthetic implant
In medicine, a prosthesis (plural: prostheses; from grc, πρόσθεσις, prósthesis, addition, application, attachment), or a prosthetic implant, is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, which may be lost through trau ...
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Retinal implant
Retinal prostheses for restoration of sight to patients blinded by retinal degeneration are being developed by a number of private companies and research institutions worldwide. The system is meant to partially restore useful vision to people who ...
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Subdermal implant
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Transdermal implant
Transdermal implants, or dermal piercings, are a form of body modification used both in a medical and aesthetic context. In either case, they consist of an object placed partially below and partially above the skin, thus ''trans''dermal. The skin ...
Alternative
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Alien implants
In ufology, alien implants is a term used to describe physical objects allegedly placed in someone's body after they have been abducted by aliens. Claimed capabilities of the implants range from telepresence to mind control to biotelemetry (the l ...
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Extraocular implant
An extraocular implant (also known as eyeball jewelry) is a cosmetic implant involving a tiny piece of decorative jewelry which is implanted within the superficial, interpalpebral conjunctiva or sclera of the human eye.
History and culture
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Implant (body modification)
In body modification, an implant is a device that is placed under the human skin for decorative purposes. Such implants may be subdermal or transdermal. In the context of body modification, some may consider injections of silicone and other subs ...
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Implant (thought insertion)
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The Implant
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History of dental treatments The history of dental treatments dates back to thousands of years. The scope of this article is limited to the pre-1981 history.
The earliest known example of dental caries manipulation is found in a Paleolithic man, dated between 14,160 and 13,820 ...
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Implantation (disambiguation)
Implantation may refer to:
* Implantation (embryology), in which an embryo adheres to the wall of the uterus
* Implant (medicine), insertion of implants
* Endometrial transplantation, as part of the theory of retrograde menstruation in endometrio ...
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Osseointegration
Osseointegration (from Latin ''osseus'' " bony" and ''integrare'' "to make whole") is the direct structural and functional connection between living bone and the surface of a load-bearing artificial implant ("load-bearing" as defined by Albrekt ...
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Osseoincorporation
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