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Dr. Jack Hahn, the GOAT of Implant Dentistry : Dentistry Uncensored w/ Howard Farran #1744

Dr. Jack Hahn, the GOAT of Implant Dentistry : Dentistry Uncensored w/ Howard Farran #1744

10/23/2026 12:04:00 PM   |   Comments: 0   |   Views: 122
Dr. Jack Hahn returns to Dentistry Uncensored for round two — a pioneer of modern implant dentistry with over 58 years in practice, 54 of them devoted entirely to implants, and the designer of four implant systems including the Steri-Oss, the Replace Tapered implant for Nobel Biocare, and the Hahn Tapered implant at Glidewell. This time he picks up the stories he didn’t get to the first time. He walks through two of his lesser-known inventions — the JAH 2000 blade, with a curved neck designed to let you graft the day you place it, and the IPI provisional implant that predated minis — along with the industry realities that killed both. He recalls showing blade results at the 1986 Academy of Osseointegration meeting in Dallas, where oral surgeons quietly cleaned out the entire supply of brochures at the booth during the break, and makes the case that the true pioneers of implant dentistry were the clinicians doing subperiosteals, ramus frames, and blades in the ’70s and ’80s — with subperiosteals now coming back into vogue thanks to 3D printing.



The conversation turns to the business and regulation of implants. Jack shares the untold story of meeting Don Maloney at the Chicago Midwinter and advising him to build Clear Choice like McDonald’s — same implant, same everything, at every center — only to have investors look at his contract and ask, “What do we need him for?” He and Howard dig into the Ohio State Dental Board’s March 2026 move on specialty advertising rules, and whether implant dentistry should finally be recognized as a specialty. Jack’s position is nuanced: he wants credentials to count without freezing out the “onesie-twosie” GPs, while Howard argues patients deserve one place that can take them from A to Z, since surgeons who place implants often can’t restore them. Jack also offers a clinic’s worth of hard-won guidance — his pilot’s checklist for new patients, why patient musculature should influence implant count, never penny-pinching on the extra implant, treating soft tissue as a barometer, and his warning that an implant in a bad position always integrates. He closes with a caution about over-reliance on digital planning and AI (“put in 50 implants the conventional way first”), his advice to a senior in dental school to get hands-on before graduating, and why his criteria for any system comes down to three S’s: simple, safe, and successful.



Episode #1744 : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran, Dr. Jack Hahn is back for round two — 58 years in dentistry, 54 of them in implants, four implant systems designed, and over 5,000 Dentaltown threads mentioning his name.

This time he digs into the stories he didn’t get to the first time: the blade implant oral surgeons secretly swiped brochures for, the Clear Choice deal he was cut out of, the HA coating study that got destroyed, and his blunt take on whether implant dentistry should finally be a recognized specialty.

?? Pure, unfiltered wisdom from the GOAT of implant dentistry.

#DentistryUncensored #DentalImplants #ImplantDentistry #DentalHistory #Dentaltown #JackHahn


VIDEO #1744 DUwHF - Jack Hahn 2




AUDIO #1744 DUwHF - Jack Hahn 2





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