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Evidence Supporting Platform-Switching To Preserve Marginal Bone Levels Not Definitive, Gary L. Stafford
Evidence Supporting Platform-Switching To Preserve Marginal Bone Levels Not Definitive, Gary L. Stafford
School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications
Data sources
MEDLINE, EMBASE, The Cochrane Oral Health Group's Trials Register, The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), UK National Research Register, Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR), Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE), ISI Proceedings for relevant conference abstracts. The search strategy used keywords but not subject heading terms. A number of relevant journals were hand searched (seven most recent years) and authors were contacted in the absence of complete data.
Study selection
Randomised controlled trials (RCT) or controlled clinical trials (CCT) reported in English only, that compared platform-switched to platform-matched implants were eligible. A …