Helping the clinician make evidence-based implant selections. A systematic review and qualitative analysis of dental implant studies over a 20 year period

International Dental Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 359-369

  Bhatavadekar, Neel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Dental implants; Esthetics; Evidence Based dentistry; Patient outcome assessment; Review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DECISION MAKING; DENTIST; EVIDENCE BASED DENTISTRY; HUMAN; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TOOTH IMPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DATABASES AS TOPIC; DECISION MAKING; DENTAL IMPLANTS; DENTISTS; EVIDENCE-BASED DENTISTRY; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PUBMED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78649367269     PISSN: 00206539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1922/IDJ-2539Bhatavadekar11     Document Type: Article

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