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Volume 37 , Issue 1
January/February 2017
Pages 33–38

A Prospective Clinical and Radiographic Assessment of Platform-Switched Laser-Microchannel Implants Placed in Limited Interimplant Spaces

Myron Nevins, DDS/Sonia Leziy, DDS/Eric Kerr, DDS, MS/Ulrich Janke/Giulio Rasperini, DDS/James Hanratty, DDS/Kirk Pasquinelli, DDS/Tiziano Testori, MD, DDS/Cary A. Shapoff, DDS/David M. Kim, DDS, DMSc

PMID: 27977815
DOI: 10.11607/prd.3109

This multicenter clinical trial of platform-switched laser-microchannel implants supports findings from a previous preclinical trial. Previous information indicated that an interimplant distance narrower than 3 mm would result in decrease in the crestal bone level, but the results of this investigation suggest that a more optimistic clinical result can be anticipated for implants and abutments with a laser-microchannel surface.

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