Implant-supported rehabilitation following transcrestal and lateral sinus floor elevation: analysis of costs and quality of life from a bicenter, parallel-arm randomized trial.

Background: The aim of this study was to comparatively evaluate costs and specific aspects of oral-health related quality of life (OhRQoL) related to the period between the surgery phase of transcrestal and lateral sinus floor elevation (tSFE and lSFE, respectively) and 6 months after delivery of implant-supported prosthesis.

Methods: A bicenter, parallel-arm, randomized trial comparatively evaluating tSFE and lSFE when applied concomitantly with implant placement was conducted. At 6 months after prosthesis delivery, data on cost-associated items related to the post-surgery period and selected aspects of OhRQoL were collected.

Radiographic outcomes of transcrestal and lateral sinus floor elevation: One-year results of a bi-center, parallel-arm randomized trial.

Objectives: To comparatively evaluate the radiographic outcomes of transcrestal and lateral sinus floor elevation (tSFE and lSFE, respectively) when applied concomitantly with implant placement.

Materials And Methods: Patients with at least 1 edentulous site with residual bone height (RBH) of 3-6 mm were enrolled in a bi-center, parallel-arm, randomized trial. Both tSFE and lSFE were associated with a bovine-derived xenograft, and implants were inserted concomitantly.

Morbidity following transcrestal and lateral sinus floor elevation: A randomized trial.

Aim: To comparatively evaluate the morbidity following maxillary sinus floor elevation according to either transcrestal (tSFE) or lateral (lSFE) approach with concomitant implant placement.

Materials & Methods: Patients with ≥1 edentulous maxillary posterior site with residual bone height (RBH) of 3-6 mm were enrolled. tSFE was performed in association with a xenograft and a collagen matrix.

Plaque accumulation on titanium disks with different surface treatments: an in vivo investigation.

Implants with rough surfaces are today widely used. It has been speculated that rough surfaces (Ra > 0.2 μm) provide a better "substrate" for retention and accumulation of plaque in terms of area, thickness and colony-forming unit that can eventually lead to peri mucositis and/or peri-implantitis.

Selective breeding of mice for antibody responsiveness to flagellar and somatic antigens of salmonellae.

Selective breeding has been performed in mice for their high or low antibody responsiveness to Salmonella antigens (Ag). Two noncross-reacting Salmonellae (S. typhimurium and S.

Modifications in the handling in vitro of 125I-labelled keyhole limpet haemocyanin by peritoneal macrophages from mice pretreated with the adjuvant Corynebacterium parvum.

Peritoneal macrophages were isolated from C. parvum-pretreated (CP) and normal CBAT6T6 mice and their in vitro handling of 125I-labelled Keyhole limpet haemocyanin (125I-labelled KLH) studied in relation to the humoral anti-KLH responses induced in corresponding animals. CP pretreatment exerted an adjuvant effect on the production of anti-KLH antibodies, both IgM and IgG, which was also demonstrable with a normally subimmunogenic dose of antigen.