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Absorbable Implants

"Absorbable Implants" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Implants constructed of materials designed to be absorbed by the body without producing an immune response. They are usually composed of plastics and are frequently used in orthopedics and orthodontics.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Absorbable Implants" by people in this website by year, and whether "Absorbable Implants" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 29 publications over 18 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2002 and 2013 and 2015
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