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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mater Sci Eng C Mater Biol Appl. 2016 Jun 15;68:723–731. doi: 10.1016/j.msec.2016.06.049

Figure 8. Histological quantification.

Figure 8

(A) The percentage of implant perimeter in contact with mineralized tissue was found to range between 20 and 80% across the groups analyzed. The AD+MW group showed a trend of higher bone to implant contact than the PEEK and AD+MW+AC after 6 weeks and both the AD+MW and AD+MW+AC coated implants showed a trend of greater bone to implant contact than the PEEK group after 18 weeks. (B) No significant differences were found between the bone apposition rates on the surfaces of the three different implants after 6 or 18 weeks implantation. A general trend of reduced bone apposition rate was observed across groups at 18 weeks compared to 6 weeks.