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Article: Five-year follow-up study on dental bone implant confirms positive performance.(RESEARCH ALERT)(Report)
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- Biomedical Materials
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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Findings from this study confirm the effectiveness of a dental implant system developed by Astra Tech Dental, a subsidiary of Astra Zeneca.
The study was carried out by researchers at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Heidelberg University in Germany. The purpose of the study was to compile and compare data on marginal bone level changes between loading and five years of function for all implant systems currently on the market.
Results show that Astra Tech's trademarked OsseoSpeed implant underwent a mean marginal bone level change of 0.03 mm after five years, which is extremely good, according to Dr AnnaKarin Lundgren, Head of ...