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SUBMITTER: Lugas AT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7178674 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lugas Andrea T AT Terzini Mara M Zanetti Elisabetta M EM Schierano Gianmario G Manzella Carlo C Baldi Domenico D Bignardi Cristina C Audenino Alberto L AL
Materials (Basel, Switzerland) 20200409 7
Cement-retained implant-supported prosthetics are gaining popularity compared to the alternative screw-retained type, a rise that serves to highlight the importance of retrievability. The aim of the present investigation is to determine the influence of luting agent, abutment height and taper angle on the retrievability of abutment-coping cementations. Abutments with different heights and tapers were screwed onto an implant and their cobalt-chrome copings were cemented on the abutments using thr ...[more]