Small-diameter titanium Grade IV and titanium-zirconium implants in edentulous mandibles: Three-year results from a double-blind, randomized controlled trial

Clinical Oral Implants Research

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 831-840

  Quirynen, Marc ^a   Al Nawas, Bilal ^b   Meijer, Henny J A ^c   Razavi, Amir ^d   Reichert, Torsten E ^e   Schimmel, Martin ^f   Storelli, Stefano ^g   Romeo, Eugenio ^g   Bräuer, Isabel ^e   Castro Laza, José ^e   Müller, Frauke ^f   Naert, Ignace ^a   Perrucchi, Alessandro ^d   Raghoebar, Gerry M ^c   Reichert, Torsten ^e   Santing, Eric ^c   Bruggenkate, Christiaan Ten ^h   Vandekerckhove, Betty ^a   Wagner, Wilfried ^b   Wismeijer, Daniel ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d LUZERNER KANTONSSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Edentulous; Roxolid; SLActive surface; Titanium zirconium

Indexed keywords

DENTAL ALLOY; TITANIUM; TOOTH IMPLANT; ZIRCONIUM;

AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAW, EDENTULOUS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OVERLAY DENTURE; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGERY; TOOTH IMPLANT; TOOTH IMPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; DENTAL ALLOYS; DENTAL IMPLANTATION, ENDOSSEOUS; DENTAL IMPLANTS; DENTAL PROSTHESIS DESIGN; DENTURE, OVERLAY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAW, EDENTULOUS; MALE; MANDIBLE; TITANIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZIRCONIUM;

EID: 84930823937     PISSN: 09057161     EISSN: 16000501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/clr.12367     Document Type: Article

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