Monitoring failure rates of commercial implant brands; substantial equivalence in question?

Clinical Oral Implants Research

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 725-729

  Hujoel, Philippe ^a   Becker, William ^b   Becker, Burton ^b  

^a School of Dentistry University   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dental implant(s); Dental informatics bioinformatics; Implant dentistry implantology; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; DENTAL MATERIAL; OXIDE; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; CHEMISTRY; DATA BASE; DENTAL SURGERY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POROSITY; POSTMARKETING SURVEILLANCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTER; SURVIVAL; TOOTH IMPLANT; TOOTH IMPLANTATION; TOOTH PROSTHESIS;

BONE DENSITY; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; DATABASES AS TOPIC; DENTAL IMPLANTATION, ENDOSSEOUS; DENTAL IMPLANTS; DENTAL MATERIALS; DENTAL PROSTHESIS DESIGN; DENTAL RESTORATION FAILURE; HUMANS; OXIDES; POROSITY; PRODUCT SURVEILLANCE, POSTMARKETING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TITANIUM;

EID: 84878719636     PISSN: 09057161     EISSN: 16000501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0501.2012.02477.x     Document Type: Article

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