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Jemt named 14th Nobel Biocare Brånemark Osseointegration Award winner

Dr. Torsten Jemt (Photo: Academy of Osseointegration)
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Tue. 22 February 2022

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Torsten Jemt, DDS, PhD, is the 14th recipient of the Nobel Biocare Brånemark Osseointegration Award. Today, he holds a combined scientific position at the Faculty of Odontology as an associate professor and as a clinical scientific coordinator at the Dental Health Service of the region of Västra Götaland, Sweden.

This annual award, made possible by a grant from Nobel Biocare, is bestowed by the Osseointegration Foundation (OF), the philanthropic arm of the Academy of Osseointegration (AO). It honors an individual whose impact on implant dentistry is exemplary in any or all of the foundation’s mission categories: research, education and charitable causes.

“I was surprised and felt very honored,” said Jemt about his reaction upon learning he was the 2022 recipient.

Jemt started a collaboration with Prof. Per-Ingvar Brånemark in 1978 and was involved in the development of the first single implant abutments, which he designed in 1983, and the first CAD/CAM titanium frameworks in 1996.

He co-founded the Brånemark Clinic in Gothenburg in 1986 together with Ulf Lekhom, DDS, PhD. According to Jemt, Prof. Brånemark was very focused on the patients and how to take care of them. He was also focused on biology and saw the response from the host tissue to be crucial for the treatment result.

“In the early days, we should treat the implants with care: only titanium in contact with hard and soft tissue — prosthesis components above the tissue —, good access for cleaning and avoid probing into the tissue adjacent to the implant,” said Jemt.

He continued: “During the early 1980s, a major focus of the team was the testing of new clinical applications and the development of new implant components. In 1982, I was asked to create prosthetic components for the single implant application, and during 1982 to 1984, Dr. Tomas Janson and I treated the very first single implant patients in the world using osseointegration. I had frequent contact with the Brånemark team and became a part of the team in the early 1980s, and treated my first patient with an implant supported prosthesis in the late 1970s.”

Jemt was co-chairman of the Brånemark Clinic between 1986 and 2000 and chairman between 2000 and 2009. He became a board-certified prosthodontist in 1982 and received his PhD degree in prosthodontics in 1984. He has published more than 170 scientific publications and lectured worldwide since 1983.

At the OF Titanium Society breakfast on Saturday, Jemt will give an exclusive presentation. He is also scheduled to present as part of the 2022 Opening Symposium.

2022-2023 AO Board to be led by Dr. Amerian D. Sones

Members of the AO participating in the 2022 annual business meeting will elect a new slate of officers headed by AO Fellow Amerian D. Sones, DMD, MS, as president. With her elevation to the helm, Sones will serve as the academy’s third female president in its history.

Sones, a prosthodontist from Dallas, is director of the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Texas A&M and chair of the Academy's Global University Task Force.

Also nominated for election to the academy’s board will be AO Fellow Robert A. Levine, DDS, a periodontist in private practice from Philadelphia, as a new director, and AO Fellow Joseph P. Fiorellini, DMD, DMSc, chair of the Department of Periodontics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, who will be elevated from director to treasurer.

Levine graduated from Temple University School of Dentistry in 1981 and received his post-grad certificate in periodontics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984. He is presently a clinical professor in post-graduate periodontics and dental implantology at Temple University, a clinical assistant professor at the University of North Carolina and an adjunct clinical assistant professor at the University of Illinois College of Dentistry.

Active in the academy and a member since its inception in 1985, Levine most recently served on the Research Submission Committee. He has also been active on the academy’s Clinical Innovations, ePoster, and 2018 Annual Meeting committees. He has authored close to 90 publications.

Rounding out the slate of officers on the academy’s board will be AO Fellow Hom-Lay Wang, DDS, MSD, PhD, president-elect; AO Fellow Joerg Neugebauer, DDS, PhD, vice president; AO Fellow Robert C. Vogel, DDS, secretary; and AO Fellow Joseph P. Fiorellini, DMD, DMSc, treasurer. Continuing will be AO Fellow Tara L. Aghaloo, DDS, MD, PhD, immediate past president; and directors AO Fellow Jeffrey Ganeles, DMD; Stephen L. Jacobs, BDS; AO Fellow Joseph Y K Kan, DDS, MS; Robert R. Lemke, DDS, MD; AO Fellow Robert A. Levine, DDS; and AO Fellow Lambert J. Stumpel, DDS.

(Source: Academy of Osseointegration)

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