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Processing and Properties of Endosseous Dental Implant Surfaces: Design for Increased Osseointegration Potential
R.M. Pilliar, BASc., PhD
Oral Health August 2000; 51-58
Successful treatment using endosseous dental implants is dependent on the formation and maintenance of secure implant to host bone fixation. This criterion for success has been recognized since the 1970s as a result of early reports by Branemark and co-workers on successful use of threaded, screw-shaped cpTi implants placed using a careful two-stage surgical procedure. A result of those early studies was the coining, by Branemark, of the term osseointegration which described virtual direct implant-bone contact as a necessary requirement for success of dental implants.
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