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Article: Five-Year Follow-up of the Astra Tech OsseoSpeed™ Implant -Successful Results Confirmed.
- Article from:
- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- October 21, 2009
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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™ implant shows very good results also in compromised sites when using an early loading protocol (see also Astra Tech).
"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 surface characteristics and properties have been reviewed in numerous published articles revealing positive bone response. ...