This study examined whether the degree of abutment surface modification that may occur with regular periodontal instrumentation has a clinical impact in terms of increased plaque accumulation and increased peri-implant tissue inflammation on zirconia implant abutments. Thirteen patients who had zirconia implant crowns were recruited in this randomized clinical trial. Each patient acted as their control and had either the buccal or lingual surface of their screw-retained implant restoration scaled with a metallic scaler and the other surface with a non-metallic scaler at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAdhesion and degranulation promoting adapter protein (ADAP) plays an important role in T cell activation. ADAP deficiency was recently found to prolong heart graft survival in mice. We investigated the role of ADAP in intestinal transplantation and the synergistic effect of ADAP deficiency and Costimulation blockade (CB).
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