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Article: Study findings on bone research are outlined in reports from F. Carinci and colleagues.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- October 21, 2009
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"In the previous decade, several reports have been published regarding implants inserted in autografts, but none have analyzed implants inserted in fresh-frozen bone allografts. Thus, a retrospective study was planned to verify if 4-months' delay from grafting to implant insertion is a safe period before prosthetic rehabilitation of implants placed in fresh-frozen bone allografts," researchers in Ferrara, Italy report (see also Bone Research).
"Between December 2003 and December 2006, 22 patients (10 women and 12 men with a median age of 51 years) underwent grafting with horizontal augmentation without membrane and 88 implants inserted thereafter. The mean ...