Kw. Gratz et al., HISTOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF OSSEOINTEGRATION 4 YEARS AFTER IMPLANTATION - A CASE-REPORT, Clinical oral implants research, 5(3), 1994, pp. 173-176
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9
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Biomedical","Dentistry,Oral Surgery & Medicine
Histological examinations of clinically successful dental implants are
very rare in the literature. This article presents a clinical case wh
ere an ITI hollow-cylinder titanium implant type F (red mark, 16 mm) h
ad to be removed simultaneously with the resection of a squamous cell
carcinoma of the lower jaw. The duration of functional loading of the
implant was 49 months. The fixture was situated at the margin of the t
issue to be resected during tumor surgery and could therefore be prepa
red as a histological specimen independent of the tumorous tissue. In
the sections obtained, close contact of alveolar bone to the implant s
urface was clearly visible. Together with the clinical success of the
implant, criteria of osseointegration seems to have been matched. This
observation represents the longest histological survery of a clinical
ly successful fixture of this implant system.