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Instrument or device used to remove excess bone growth over a cover screw.    

Screw with head design to fit over the implant and seal the occlusal surface of the implant prior to wound closure in a two‐stage surgical implant procedure.  

A device that serves to link or connect the ends of adjacent parts or objects. Cis-arrangement. An act of joining together or linking two people, things or processes. Something which joins two things, especially a device for connecting two pieces of pipe, hose or tube. Efficiency of transfer of power from an applicator to the…

Bone preparation of the crestal area using special countersinking drills to allow an apical implant placement resulting in a subcrestal position of the implant shoulder or platform.  

Drill used to enlarge the coronal part of an osteotomy.  

To enlarge with a specific drill the coronal part of an osteotomy, to accommodate the neck of a dental implant.  

An anticoagulant that inhibits the hepatic synthesis of the vitamin Kdependent coagulation factors.  

Study comparing two or more therapies on the bases of monetary costs and clinical effectiveness. Results are usually reported in units of dollars or euros per clinical outcome. The outcome of therapies to be compared with CEA must be expressed in the same units.  

Study designed to assess all outcomes based on monetary costs and benefits. All study results are conveyed in dollars or euros. An economic conversion is used to give a monetary amount to intangible results.