Early osseointegration to hydrophilic and hydrophobic implant surfaces in humans

Niklaus P. Lang, Giovanni E. Salvi, Guy Huynh‐Ba, Sašo Ivanovski, Nikolaos Donos, Dieter D. Bosshardt

Clinical Oral Implants Research · 2011 · 449 citations · 23 references

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Abstract

While healing showed similar characteristics with bone resorptive and appositional events for both SLActive and SLA surfaces between 7 and 42 days, the degree of osseointegration after 2 and 4 weeks was superior for the SLActive compared with the SLA surface.

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