The early tissue response to titanium and LactoSorb screws

Dental Traumatology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 139-144

  Mollaoglu, Nur ^a,c   Çetiner, Sedat ^a   Alpaslan, Cansu ^a   Gültekin, Sibel Elif ^a   Alpar, Reha ^b  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Early tissue response; Elderly; LactoSorb screw; Titanium screw

Indexed keywords

POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POLYLACTIC ACID; TITANIUM;

AGE; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BONE SCREW; BONE TISSUE; CALVARIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE REMOVAL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; HISTOMETRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REOPERATION; SAFETY; TISSUE REACTION;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BONE SCREWS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; LACTIC ACID; OSTEOGENESIS; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POLYMERS; SKULL; TITANIUM;

EID: 0038641208     PISSN: 16004469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-9657.2003.00103.x     Document Type: Article

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