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Clinical evaluation of a single crystal sapphire tooth implant in human beings
A Sclaroff1, S el-Mofty, S E Guyer
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Washington University School of Dental Medicine, St. Louis, Mo.
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, and Oral Pathology
|August 1, 1990
Abstract:
Single crystal sapphire implants are commercially prepared ceramics of aluminum oxide. These endosseous implants have been placed in patients at Washington University since 1978. The course of patients has been followed closely with periodic clinical and radiographic evaluations. Sapphire is well tolerated by hard and soft tissue and provides excellent abutments for fixed partial dentures.