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Human Augmentation · Recorded milestone

Bone-anchored artificial limb

Recorded year1990

Rickard Branemark fixes a titanium post into a thigh bone in Sweden so an artificial leg clips straight on, with no socket.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.