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An Ultra-Violet Light Microscopic Study Of The Hydroxylapatite Ceramic-Bone Interface Phenomena, Leonard W. Pierce
An Ultra-Violet Light Microscopic Study Of The Hydroxylapatite Ceramic-Bone Interface Phenomena, Leonard W. Pierce
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
Preparations used in this study were obtained from an investigation which had undertaken the following:
Durapatite, a hydroxylapatite ceramic was implanted in 24 mature Beagle dogs to study its maintenance effect on the alveolar bone of the mandible.
After dividing the dogs into two groups, a fresh socket and a healed socket group, the posterior teeth were removed and alveolectomies were performed. Eight ceramic implants were then placed in the right mandible of each animal in each group. The healed group received the implants five weeks after tooth removal and the fresh socket group received implants immediately after extraction.
The …