An Overview of the Mechanical Integrity of Dental Implants

Figure 7

Embedded foreign particles on full cracks and crack-like defects, as identified on grit-blasted (with or without etching) implants. The white arrows mark the defects (full cracks or crack-like defects) and the white circles mark embedded foreign particles. Reprinted with permission from [49].

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