RANDOMISED CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL Sergio Salina, Federico Gualini, Fabio Rigotti, Cristian Mazzarini, Diego Longhin, Mauro Grigoletto, Jacopo Buti, Luca Sbricoli, Marco Esposito Subcrestal placement of dental implants with an internal conical connection...
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RANDOMISED CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL Sergio Salina, Federico Gualini, Fabio Rigotti, Cristian Mazzarini, Diego Longhin, Mauro Grigoletto, Jacopo Buti, Luca Sbricoli, Marco Esposito Subcrestal placement of dental implants with an internal conical connection of 0.5 mm versus 1.5 mm: Three-year after loading results of a multicentre within-person randomised controlled trial KEY WORDS aesthetics, bone level, dental implant, subcrestal placement ABSTRACT Purpose: To evaluate whether there are some clinical benefits by placing single dental implants either 0.5 mm or 1.5 mm subcrestally in healed bone crests. Materials and methods: Sixty partially edentulous patients requiring two single implant-support- ed crowns had both sites randomly allocated either to 0.5-mm or 1.5-mm subcrestal implant placement according to a split-mouth design at six centres and submerged in aesthetic areas or non-submerged in non-aesthetic areas for 3 months. Provisional acrylic crowns were delivered and were replace
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