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Article: Five-Year Follow-up of the Astra Tech OsseoSpeed[TM] Implant --Successful Results Confirmed.
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- October 2, 2009
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The five-year follow-up study on OsseoSpeed[TM] implants confirms the successful results presented in previous studies.
MOLNDAL, Sweden -- The five-year follow-up study was made by Dr. Steveling and co-workers at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Heidelberg University in Germany. The conclusion is that the OsseoSpeed([TM]) implant shows very good results also in compromised sites when using an early loading protocol.
"The mean marginal bone level change reported was -0.03 millimeters after five years, which is extremely good," says Dr. AnnaKarin Lundgren, Head of Scientific Management at Astra Tech Dental.
The OsseoSpeed ...