Arkadiusz Makowiecki, Ute Botzenhart, Julia Seeliger, Friedhelm Heinemann, Peter Biocev, Marzena Dominiak
The objective of the present study was to compare the primary and secondary stability of tissue-level short dental titanium implants with polished necks and hydrophilic surfaces of two different designs and manufacturers. The first implant system used (SPI(®)ELEMENT RC INICELL titanium implants, Thommen Medical AG, Grenchen, Switzerland), allowed functional loading 6 weeks after its placement, whereas the second implant system (RN SLActiv(®) tissue-level titanium implants, Straumann GmbH, Fribourg, Germany), was loaded after 15 weeks...
March 30, 2017: Annals of Anatomy, Anatomischer Anzeiger: Official Organ of the Anatomische Gesellschaft