Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (IBiTech)

Evaluating bone structure surrounding dental implants

Although histology has proven to be a reliable method to evaluate the ossoeintegration of a dental implant, it is costly, time consuming, destructive, and limited to one or few sections. Micro Computed Tomography, or µCT, is fast and delivers three-dimensional information, but this technique has not been widely used and validated for histomorphometric parameters yet. This study compared µCT and histomorphometry by means of evaluating their accuracy in determining the bone response to two different implant materials.

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