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Early Implant Restoration Through Photofunctionalization

Dentistry Today

INTRODUCTION Osseointegration, as defined by Brånemark, is a direct structural and functional connection between ordered, living bone and the surface of a load-carrying implant. 1 The process of osseointegration is very much dependent on the quantity and composition of osteoblast attachment to the implant surface. 1986;1(1):11-25.