Carbon film coating of abutment surfaces: effect on the abutment screw removal torque

Pedro Henrique Corazza1, Alecsandro de Moura Silva, José Renato Cavalcanti Queiroz

  • 1*PhD Student, Department of Dental Materials and Prosthodontics, Institute for Science and Technology at São Jose dos Campos, São Paulo State University, São José dos Campos, Brazil. †Collaborating Professor, Department of Physics, Technologic Institute of Aeronautics, São José dos Campos, Brazil. ‡Postdoctoral Student, Department of Dental Materials and Prosthodontics, São Paulo University, São Paulo, Brazil. §Professor, Department of Dental Materials and Prosthodontics, Institute for Science and Technology at São Jose dos Campos, São Paulo State University, São José dos Campos, Brazil. ‖Adjunct Professor, Division of Prosthodontics, Department of Dentistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, Brazil.

Implant Dentistry
|July 16, 2014
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