Can the design of the instruments used for undersized osteotomies influence the initial stability of implants installed in low-density bone? An in vitro pilot study

• Márcio de Carvalho Formiga ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Márcio de Carvalho Formiga, Sergio Alexandre Gehrke

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Professor of the Implantology Program, UniSociesc, Florianópolis, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4093-2203

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• Arthur Felipe Gehrke ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil

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• João Paulo De Bortoli ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Professor of the Implantology Program, Associação Paulista dos Cirurgiões Dentistas—APCD, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil

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• Sergio Alexandre Gehrke

  Contributed equally to this work with: Márcio de Carvalho Formiga, Sergio Alexandre Gehrke

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sergio.gehrke@hotmail.com

  Affiliations Coordinator of Postgraduate Program in Implantology, Bioface Institute/UCAM/PgO, Montevideo, Uruguay, Department of Biotechnology, Catholic University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5863-9101

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