A method to form a dental implant that has a coronal body that connects at an interface to a bone fixation body. The bone fixation body is made separately from the coronal body, has a porous structure with a cylindrical shape, and has the porous metal structure with a size and a shape that emulate a size and a shape of a porous structure of natural bone. The bone fixation body connects to the coronal body after the bone fixation body is separately made from the coronal body.