Relation between insertion torque and tactile, visual, and rescaled gray value measures of bone quality: a cross-sectional clinical study with short implants

• Main Authors: Diego Fernandes Triches (Author), Fernando Rizzo Alonso (Author), Luis André Mezzomo (Author), Danilo Renato Schneider (Author), Eduardo Aydos Villarinho (Author), Maria Ivete Rockenbach (Author), Eduardo Rolim Teixeira (Author), Rosemary Sadami Shinkai (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SpringerOpen, 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background This study assessed the relationship between insertion torque and bone quality evaluated during surgery and in preoperative computed tomographic (CT) images analyzed either visually or by rescaled mean gray values (MGVs). The study also tested the correlation between the clinical...