Publications by authors named "Filippo Casotto"
Background: To compare the clinical outcomes between tilted trans-sinus implants inserted without simultaneous bone grafting versus sinus elevation procedures with bone grafting to support immediately loaded prostheses for the rehabilitation of the atrophic maxilla.
Materials And Methods: Thirty-two subjects were selected to receive an immediately loaded fixed restoration supported by four or six implants and randomised to receive at least one trans-sinus implant without simultaneous bone grafting (group 1, n = 16) or at least one trans-sinus implant with sinus elevation procedures and bone grafting (group 2, n = 16). Primary outcomes were prosthesis and implant failures.
Objectives: The purpose of present study was to compare short (6 mm) with longer implants with the same surface use in the posterior maxilla and/or mandible.
Material And Methods: A total of 110 implants of 6 or 10 mm in length were placed with an internal hex (n = 60) and with a conical connection (n = 50) but the same material, surface and design, supporting single crowns in the posterior maxilla and/or mandible. Outcomes measured were implant survival and marginal bone level changes up to 24 months after loading.
Background: Basaloid squamous cell carcinoma is an uncommon variant of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). Angiogenin (ANG), a member of the ribonuclease super-family, is essential to tumor angiogenesis, but has also been implicated in tumor consolidation and proliferation.
Methods: ANG expression was first investigated in 12 head and neck basaloid squamous cell carcinomas (HNBSCCs) and compared with a control group of 24 site- and stage-matched conventional SCCs to establish whether the supposedly more aggressive biological behavior of HNBSCCs might be ANG-related.