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Dental Implants

"Dental 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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Biocompatible materials placed into (endosseous) or onto (subperiosteal) the jawbone to support a crown, bridge, or artificial tooth, or to stabilize a diseased tooth.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Dental Implants" by people in this website by year, and whether "Dental Implants" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 11 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2020
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