Research Article
Evaluation of Bone Healing on Sandblasted and Acid Etched Implants Coated with Nanocrystalline Hydroxyapatite: An In Vivo Study in Rabbit Femur
Table 1
Results from the interferometer characterization. The numbers represent the mean value of each parameter (the standard deviation is presented within parenthesis).
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: the arithmetic mean of the roughness area from the mean plane; : density of summits, that is, number of peaks per area unit; : the ratio between the developed surface area and a flat reference area; : core fluid retention index. |