Table 1.
Inclusion and exclusion criteria for the patients.
Fig 1.
Flow diagram of progress through the phrases of the non-randomized control trial.
Fig 2.
Schematic measurement of the crestal cortical bone thickness from a mandibular cross-sectional CBCT image (0.5 mm slice thickness).
Fig 3.
Schematic measurement of bone thickness at the depths of 3, 6 and 9 mm.
The buccolingual cortical bone thickness (yellow line) and the cancellous bone thickness (cyan line) were measured from a cross-sectional image of the mandible.
Table 2.
Mean thickness of crestal cortical, buccolingual cortical, and cancellous bone and ratio of the thickness of cortical to cancellous bone 3, 6 and 9 mm below the crestal bone level in all patients.
Table 3.
Correlation between ISQ values and thickness of the crestal cortical, buccolingual cortical, and cancellous bone and ratio of the thickness of the cortical to cancellous bone in all patients.
Table 4.
Correlation between the ratio of the thickness of cortical and cancellous bone at varying depths below the crestal bone level and ISQ.