A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) of Titanium-13Zirconium versus Titanium Grade IV Small-Diameter Bone Level Implants in Edentulous Mandibles - Results from a 1-Year Observation Period

Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 896-904

  Al Nawas, Bilal ^a   Brägger, Urs ^b   Meijer, Henny J A ^c   Naert, Ignace ^d   Persson, Rigmor ^b   Perucchi, Alessandro ^e   Quirynen, Marc ^d   Raghoebar, Gerry M ^c   Reichert, Torsten E ^f   Romeo, Eugenio ^g   Santing, Hendrik J ^c   Schimmel, Martin ^h   Storelli, Stefano ^g   Bruggenkate, Christiaan ten ⁱ   Vandekerckhove, Betty ^d   Wagner, Wilfried ^a   Wismeijer, Daniel ⁱ   Müller, Frauke ^h  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e LUZERNER KANTONSSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alloy; Bone level implant; Double blind; Edentulous mandible; Locator; RCT; Titanium; Zirconium

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM; TOOTH IMPLANT; ZIRCONIUM;

AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAW, EDENTULOUS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TOOTH IMPLANT; TOOTH IMPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DENTAL IMPLANTATION, ENDOSSEOUS; DENTAL IMPLANTS; DENTAL PROSTHESIS DESIGN; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAW, EDENTULOUS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MIDDLE AGED; TITANIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZIRCONIUM;

EID: 84870513533     PISSN: 15230899     EISSN: 17088208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8208.2010.00324.x     Document Type: Article

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